How to stop the screen tearing on Gainward RTX 2060 Storm?
That horizontal tear right in the center of the screen was incredibly distracting during high-speed driving, turning beautiful vistas into a fragmented mess. It turns out the Gainward RTX 2060 Storm had a 3-5 Hz deviation between the output frequency and the monitor's refresh rate when handling 4K dynamic resolution scaling. I first tried enabling V-Sync in-game, but the input lag spiked to 60ms—it felt like moving my mouse through molasses, which was a complete dealbreaker. Instead, I disabled in-game sync and enabled 'Fast Sync' in the NVIDIA Control Panel, then hard-locked the global frame rate to 58 FPS. The tearing vanished completely, and input lag dropped to a snappy 22-28ms. I actually tried locking it at 60 FPS first, but there was still some micro-stutter; dropping it by 2 frames was the magic fix. GPU core temps sat between 72-78℃ with fans at 1800 RPM. Using a sync analysis tool, I confirmed the waveforms are now perfectly aligned. Memory temps are stable at 58-63℃, and the image is finally smooth.
