How to eliminate Screen Tearing without V-Sync?

Hi

I currently play WoW Classic on my Samsung Book 12. It has 4GB RAM and a built in graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 620.

I decreased all of my graphic settings to the absolute minimum. I experience screen tearing in the game but when I enable Vsync, there is no tearing. Although, there is still a bit of lag and I think it is because when I enable Vsync, it decreases my overall performance.

Is there a way for me to eliminate screen tearing in WoW Classic without the Vsync option?

EDIT: I ran a screen tearing test on youtube and there is no tearing and i also tried changing my Windows theme to Aero. And other games seem to run fine without tearing. I am starting to think that this problem is exclusive to WoW Classic.

No not really possible without vsync or freesync/gsync.

Vsync doesnt decrease performance it does add some input delay

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Ok, what is the difference?

Also, can I further increase my performance by changing Max Foreground and Max Background FPS? Currently there is a checkbox in both and they are set to 30 FPS.

Locking the max FPS to 30 will only remove tearing if you can guarantee a minimum of 30FPS.

If it dips below 30 it will start stuttering again.

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Can you please rephrase that? I am so tired after trying to fix this…

Is it better to leave those checked or unchecked for better performance?

EDIT: The reason I started fiddling with this is because sometimes my entire computer freezes for about 1 minute and then resumes. I still see the game frozen and the last played sound keeps looping. Nothing works, no Alt+Tab, nothing. And suddenly it all comes back. I just changed it from Better Battery to Better Performance. I hope it will not repeat…

I’m saying that it doesn’t matter if you enable them or not, screen tearing will still happen because maintaining 30FPS isn’t possible with your hardware.

Why are you so against enabling VSYNC?

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I am not particularly against Vsync. But I heard that it syncs the frames and thus eliminates screen tearing at the expence of performance. Performance, which my current hardware is not capable of.

I just don’t understand how such an old game can still be so demanding. I know, that it’s not 100% as vanilla was (engine / graphic wise) but one would think that Blizzard optimized this for the older systems (or weaker computers) too.

An example: When I run around in Wetlands and run through shallow waters, then those water ripples that appear create a noticeable lag.

Because WoW Classic isn’t an old game, it’s a new game with old assets dropped into it.

Try enabling “Classic Mode” with the button in the Graphics options, this is below “low” in some cases.

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Yeah, I figured it was something like that.

Any idea what I can do to squeeze out a bit more performance in WoW Classic?

Bnet launcher seems to display lots of videos and footages in the background - does it affect the performance in the game in any way - and is there a way to disable that?

And what about other options like Optimize Network for Speed?

Currently I reduced Render Scale to 67% (which becomes 1440x960, as opposed to the original 2160x1440 resolution).

EDIT: “Try enabling “Classic Mode” with the button in the Graphics options, this is below “low” in some cases.” <-- oh, mine was set to “1” Graphic Quality. I can try “Classic” but I wonder if that is just a preset called Classic or if there is actually something exclussive to this setting that boosts performance…

That’s an office graphic card, not a gaming graphic card. And you have only 4gb of memory which is shared between OS, applications and the graphic chip.
It’s normal you will get lag if you enable vsync. The computer you are using is definitely not made for gaming.

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Are you still running at 1440p? Since you say you reduced the rendering scale. I am not 100% sure how they do the scaling, but try to reduce the resolution instead. Try 1080p and 720p.

It will probably look terrible, but that is because your computer isn’t capable of showing anything better on an integrated graphics laptop CPU. 1440p is way too much for an integrated GPU.

It looks like this atm. imgurDOTcom/a/comqX6b

(sorry can’t post links…)

I can’t change resolution, as it is greyed out in Windowed (Fullscreen) mode. Other mode is Windowed but then I can see my desktop.

Well, if you go to Youtube and search for “samsung book 12 gaming” you will find that this computer can run pretty demanding games relatively well.

With that graphic chip and only 4gb of shared memory ?
I don’t think so.

That’s what “Render Scaling” is for.

Screen tearing back in vanilla was why I switched vsync on and have since played every game vsync on. Have heard “Y u have vsync on it adds latency and caps fps” many times aye.

Then why would anyone turn it off? In what situation would it be beneficial to have VSYNC off?

When you have a good card turning it off increases framerate instead of matching it to your screen. For the amount paid you could have gotten a machine with an actual graphics card rather than the integrated rubbish.

V-sync causes input lag; which is not a problem in a game such as wow at all; however it is something that is very important in FPS games such as CS:GO or Overwatch because any delay no matter how small between the time you click a mouse and shoot on screen is going to affect your aim.

On my PC with it off I run at around 90 FPS.

If I enable Vsync that gets locked to 60 FPS.

So, technically that’s a decrease in ‘performance’ if you like, although arguably you don’t need 90 FPS and 60 FPS is fine. I did have some screen tearing with Vsync off so I have it enabled now.

It’s not really a performance hit in traditional terms in WoW if you still get an FPS that allows you to perform all the actions you need to as soon as you need to. In Classic 30 FPS is fine.

In my case, it’s a myth that I need 90 FPS for anything in WoW, but there are FPS fan boys out there who will happily boast about their 160 FPS and so the myth that higher FPS > all persists.

Bad performance in your case is not a product of FPS or Vsync on / off imo. Your PCs hardware is just struggling to cope with WoW. Did you try the Classic setting? That’s total potato mode. Looks crap and makes me wonder if WoW ever really looked that bad, but should be very playable even on your PC.

I see.

Running on these settings now:

imgurDOTcom/a/xiygHnG

and

imgurDOTcom/a/SHyoNLF

Seems to be fine, so far. Even in a city full of players. I think decreasing render scale (resolution) seems to have helped.

Yet if your monitor is a 60hz one you won’t see any more images, just ugly tearing.

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