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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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 🙂
The only thing I can think of that would affect that many programs, aside from drivers, is Microsoft Visual C++. You also mentioned it's a fresh install, is it Windows 8?
No, it's a Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit with SP1 fully updated (I mentioned that in my first post in rig's specs). Now that I think about it I did not try to install the C++ independently from an official source like the Microsoft website (didn't feel the need since pretty much every game from Steam, Ubisoft or Origin installs or updates the required version). I will try it though as soon as I have access to that rig again. I have 3 places and 3 almost indentical rigs at each one :D
