How to fix screen tearing with the RTX 5060 Windforce 8G?
There was this glaring horizontal split right across the middle of the screen during hero clashes that was just eyesore. Looking at the telemetry, my Gigabyte RTX 5060 Windforce 8G was pushing 85-110 FPS, but the sync signal was drifting by 2-5ms. My first instinct was to just crank on V-Sync in-game, but the input lag became unbearable—totally unusable for a competitive game. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced G-Sync for both full-screen and windowed modes, and capped the max frame rate at 141 FPS to stay within the refresh window. Using RTSS, I saw the frame intervals tighten from a jittery 9-15ms down to a clean 8-11ms. I did run into some weird flickering in windowed apps at first, but updating to driver version 561.22 cleared that right up. The GPU core is idling comfortably at 62-68℃ with fans at 1400 RPM. The visuals are finally buttery smooth.
