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    M17x R1 Screen tearing on HDMI out?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by llars, Feb 19, 2013.

  1. llars

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    Quick Specs: Q9000, 260m SLI, 8gb, SSD

    I have been having an issue with Fallout New Vegas with what I believe to be screen tearing. It occurs when I pan the view vertically, it is more apparant the faster I pan. I am outputting the display via HDMI to a Dell 2407wfp with a DVI to HDMI cable. I connected the laptop to a 22" Samsung TV via HDMI and the tearing occurs there also. It does not happen on the Laptop screen. I'd use that but I really don't like watching myself play a game...

    I tried a clean install of NVIDIA 314.07 after removing all old drivers (301-something) and then running driver cleaner. With this driver the game would not load at all in fullscreen mode. I loaded 310.33 and I am able to run with that, but the tearing issue is still there. I should also probably note the hybrid graphics and pcie gen2 are disabled. Tried tinkering with triple buffering, sli, and vsync options with no change.

    On my HTPC which has an integrated Radeon HD-something the tearing does not occur on either display so it's something with NV and HDMI out on the M17x. I have not had this issue with WOW or TOR and did not experience it during recent playthroughs of Black Mesa and Half Life 2. I have experienced it in the past with other games, I just don't know of any offhand.

    I've been playing NV on the HTPC because the tearing annoys me to no end, but I have to drop the graphics quality down because of the difference in hardware.
     
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Have you tried disabling Vsync? Also is there a way for you to connect it stright to the HDMI instead of going through the adapter?
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Feb 20, 2013
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    Have you downloaded any SLI profiles for the game because that can fix alot of problems with games .
     
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    The 2407wfp is DVI only, but on the Samsung TV I used a regular HDMI cable. I created a custom nvidia profile to disable vsync which had no effect. I also changed an ini setting to disable vsync because apparently disabling it in the options doesn't really disable it from the reading I have done. When I created the profile it reported that there was already a profile for the game although it wasn't displaying it on the drop down list.
     
    llars, Feb 20, 2013
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