Extreme Screen Tearing
I have played all Mass Effect series games many times over (including on this exact machine and 2 other) and never experienced this problem before (ever in any game). During gameplay and all cinemati...
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Have to tried repairing the installation via the configuration tool or doing an alltogether clean installation? You mentioned your drivers are up to date, but have you double checked that the game is patched to date? Doing a clean graphics driver installation wouldn't hurt either.
I always do the clean installation for NVidia drivers. I reinstalled, repaired, patched and tried to play the game 3 times already.
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UPDATE: I was wrong when I said it was limited to this one game. Seems to be affecting every application including desktop (e.g. when I move windows vertically). I didn't try any other application until some time after I encountered this problem so it took me a while to notice. Apparently the only app not affected by the tearing is my Media Player Classic custom set with wide variety of codecs and filters. Also after switching to 59Hz Refresh Rate on NVidia settings panel the tearing is barely visible (and before you ask... No, never before have I had to change the RR from 60 to any other value and the Monitor has been in costant use for over 3 years on the same settings and the same machine).
I'm stumped on this one. The only thing I can think is to consider rolling back your NVidia drivers to one before you had these problems. Also, does your machine have optimus running?
No, I don't have the Optimus tech - it's a desktop rig. Also that's another curious thing... I have no drivers to revert to, it's a relatively fresh install (except the basic ones supplied by Microsoft with Windows). Also ME2 installation did not update any of my drivers or libraries (at least to my knowledge), and still for some reason as soon as I launched the game I could already see the tearing. First I thought it was limited to ME2 but then even Windows desktop was plagued by it 🙂
