Dealing with screen tearing on Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 8GB in FF XV
Seeing the screen split in half during fast pans was driving me insane, especially at 2K resolution where the tearing is incredibly obvious. The Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 8GB was pumping out between 90-120 FPS, but it wasn't syncing with my monitor's refresh rate, causing a massive frame phase offset. I tried the in-game V-Sync first, but the input lag jumped from 12ms to 40ms, making the controls feel like I was wading through mud. I immediately scrapped that and went into the NVIDIA Control Panel to force G-Sync Compatible mode and capped the max frame rate at 138 FPS to keep it within the VRR range. The frame time analyzer showed the jagged spikes finally flattening out. I did have some weird flickering when I first enabled G-Sync, but swapping to a high-quality DP 1.4 cable killed that issue. Core temps settled at 60-66℃ with power draw around 180-200W. The tearing is gone, and the motion is finally snappy.
