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    Severe screen tearing in some games?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by StaticFlame, Sep 2, 2011.

  1. StaticFlame

    StaticFlame Notebook Enthusiast

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    I own a DV6T-6000, and in all my games I get severe screen tearing. This is fixed in some by D3DOverrider, but not in all (Crysis 2, Metro 2033, STALKER, being the most notable). Does anyone have a fix?
     
    StaticFlame, Sep 2, 2011
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    I have been trying to find an answer on this as well
     
    necor23, Sep 2, 2011
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    i've tried all the current driver versions and i can't seem to get rid of it either

    in WoW if you turn vertical sync on, it creates this blurry straight horizontal line and i dont know why =/
     
    dwalk1989, Sep 2, 2011
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    11.5b doesn't fix it for me, and I've updated the BIOS. Has anyone else experienced this or have any fixes?
     
    StaticFlame, Sep 2, 2011
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    actually i reinstalled all my graphics drivers with the default then updated to 11.8 and the blurry horizontal line thing is gone now
     
    dwalk1989, Sep 2, 2011
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    Just tried a fresh re-install of windows and it's still not fixed...is this a hardware issue?
     
    StaticFlame, Sep 3, 2011
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    Are you overclocking your GPU?
     
    con247, Sep 4, 2011
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    Yes, I am.
     
    StaticFlame, Sep 4, 2011
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    Is there tearing at stock clocks?
     
    R3d, Sep 4, 2011
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    I have the same laptop as you. I also have a 4.7ghz overclocked desktop. You REALLY don't want to overclock a laptop. Mine gets to 96 degrees with full cpu use or intense gaming. This $1200 laptop could last you years if you don't overclock it. If you overclock, you will be lucky to get two years before it dies. I have many friends that bought gaming laptops with high end graphics cards, and they almost all died in two years. My stock dv6 blows out burning hot air, it is not the same as a desktop with good cooling. Why risk your whole laptop for a few fps?
     
    hotstocks, Sep 4, 2011
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    I havent overclocked anything and still get tearing in CS Source and Minecraft
     
    necor23, Sep 15, 2011
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    Stock dv6t nothing changed reinstalled HP image basic, update to 11.5b still tearing turn Vsync on, same thing any help would be amazing im losing my mind
     
    necor23, Sep 15, 2011
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    Don't know if this would help, but I had terrible tearing in Dead Island.
    You had to edit the video or config file and add VSynch(), then you
    had to make the file read only so the stupid game doesn't reset the vsynch
    to off! But that was directx, I think minecraft and cs is opengl, so maybe there is an opengl vsynch setting somewhere?
     
    hotstocks, Sep 15, 2011
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    Where is this file located?
     
    necor23, Sep 16, 2011
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