First post, by SuperPie
Hi,
I have a P4-3Ghz with Nvidia Ti-4200 128MB desktop. XP Pro with all latest updates.
I don't play many games on it, and when I do it's usually emulators. So I never really noticed this problem before, but on 2D Windows games I have really bad screen tearing. Most emulators have built-in triple buffering or vsync and they always work great for me. Funny thing is the only one that doesn't is DOSbox (very choppy with buffering on, odd because all other emus run smooth).
Games-wise, in particular I tried Diablo 1 today, and noticed the screen tearing when the character walked around.
I tried every possible setting in my Nvidia driver (vsync on, triple buffer on) and also used RivaTuner to force those same things. I guess those settings only affect certain things that Diablo 1 doesn't use. Changing refresh rate didn't make much difference either, I tried 60Hz and 75Hz.
I tried a few other 2D Windows games and found the same result - terrible screen tearing. For example, Eternal Daughter (freeware game).
Can anyone help me fix the screen tearing in 2D?
Thanks!