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Sorry to resurrect an older thread, but this issue is occurring with me and this is one of the only threads I've found online talking about it.
As with the topic creator, the tearing occurs during mouseover on Chrome, some OS context menus, and Steam. (It may occur elsewhere but I haven't noticed it.) I get no tearing during more graphic-intensive things like gaming or movies.
To describe the tearing: when mousing over a menu, you know how the area behind the text changes color? On my system, this background color tears vertically, with the right side loading just before the left side. This occurs in context menus, bookmarks menus, discussion boards on Steam, etc.
I have tried many many different vsync / buffering settings as well as aero on and off. Nothing fixes it. It occurs on both of my monitors (60hz both). I have tried older video drivers (for my GTX 570). I have tried reinstalling programs like Chrome and Steam. No fix. Again, I get no tearing in games.
I have tested my RAM as well and it came back clean. I tested my HDD for bad sectors and came back clean.
Some things I've discovered:
- Tearing lessens greatly when I don't have any videos playing in Chrome. If I do have a video playing it Chrome (eg YouTube or Twitch), tearing in context menus increases exponentially. However, tearing still occurs in programs like Steam regardless of videos being off.
- On my second monitor, the tearing occurs in a different spot than my first monitor. This is likely due to difference in resolution (1600x900 vs 1080p) however.
- Changing global or program vsync/buffering/etc. settings via nVidia control panel have no effect on the issue.
- It seems to be a recent development, similar to the timeline of this topic (late 2015 through now). I've tried to determine which system/program changes have occurred in that time that may have caused it to no avail.
i5 3550
GTX 570
8gb RAM
Windows 7 Home 64bit
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've exhausted pretty much everything I can think of outside of buying a new graphics card.