Fixing screen tearing for Gainward RTX 5070 Ti in Project Orion
Seeing the neon lights sliced in half across my 4K screen was an absolute nightmare. The Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC was pumping out between 110-140 FPS, but the monitor couldn't keep up, leading to massive frame phase deviation. I first tried the in-game V-Sync, but the input lag jumped from 15ms to 45ms—it felt like I was steering through mud, so I ditched that immediately. Instead, I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced G-Sync Compatible mode, and capped the max frame rate at 138 FPS to keep it within the refresh window. Checking the frame time analyzer, the jagged lines finally flattened out and the tearing vanished. I did deal with some weird flickering when I first enabled G-Sync, which only went away after I swapped to a certified DP 1.4 cable. Core temps are now 60-66℃ with power draw steady at 220-240W. The image is clean and the input response is finally snappy.
