How to stop visual tearing in Apex Legends with RTX 5070?
That horizontal tear right across the center of the screen is absolutely blinding during quick turns, and it completely kills the competitive vibe. Looking at the logs, the GDDR7 memory on the Manli Snow Fox RTX 5070 OC 12GB had a 4-7ms clock drift when pushing 240Hz signals to my monitor. I tried enabling V-Sync in-game first, but my input lag shot up to 55ms—it felt like I was dragging my mouse through molasses, which is a total non-starter. Instead, I disabled in-game sync and enabled G-Sync Compatible mode in the driver panel, then capped the global frame rate at 237 FPS. The tearing vanished instantly, and my input lag dropped to a crisp 18-22ms. Interestingly, locking it exactly at 240 FPS still left a tiny bit of micro-stutter; dropping it by 3 frames was the secret sauce for perfect balance. GPU temps stayed between 64-69℃ with fans at 1600 RPM. A sync analysis tool confirmed the waveforms are now perfectly aligned, and VRAM temps are sitting comfy at 58-63℃.
