How to fix Video Tearing Issues ?

I didn't have this until a while back..really dont know why its not going away this time around..

My system hung because of me trying to tweak my ram timings...tearing Usually starts on my system after it hangs due to what ever reason..
The times it's happend before I've managed to fix it simply by reinstalling a few players such as VLC , Zoom PLayer again...
But I'm afraid its not going away this time around with that method...
I've tried defaulting my ram timings and nothings changed...
Reinstalled VLC (did a registry clean , deleted all its sub folders)
used loads of cleaning tools.. and my videos still tear...

I've done the reinstalling bit atleast more then 8 times..

I reinstalled Pure Video...
Uninstalled and cleaned traces of FFDshow !
Removed Zoom Player...
Removed Media Player 11...


Did a clean Force Ware install...
I'm using the latest 91.37's atm..


I have had tearing problems many times in the past but a simple reinstall of the app would have had it fixed...

But its still there...even after me doing all sorts of weird things for it...
I dont want to do a format because of this...

Is there an easy fix to this problem...
I didn't have this problem when I had my card overclocked ....but this problem has still made me want to come done to my XFX's default speed (520/750) but thats done nothing..

I'm having a problem finding DXtweaker...probably should give Guru a check..
What should I do ?


Has any one been through such a problem ?

I'm quite sure that a format will solve my problem but I hate going through that and its not like that'll keep it from happening again !!

Is there a common way to treat Video Tearing Issues ?

 

To prevent tearing in games all you have to do is enable V-Sync either in the game options or, if they don't have that option, then create a profile for the game with the NVIDIA control panel and force it. Once enabled, you can wave goodbye to tearing...

 

thanks for posting but thats not the problem I'm having..

I'm having issues with Movies/Video's...

mpeg,avi files all around...

Tearing issues when watching DVD movies and stuff...

Every player seems to be hit by this problem...

windows media player ,VLC, Zoom Player, Win DVD7 , BS player etc...


Is there a general fix to this problem if it occurs...besides destroying the whole hard drive by formating...

 

I've never heard of DVDs and other video files tearing when played on a PC as they aren't displayed like normal graphics. Certainly I've never seen tearing in a video or while watching a DVD unless it's recorded from a game that has tearing itself.

All I can suggest is that you check to make sure that hardware acceleration is being used, which is part of DirectX I believe so I'd suggest reinstalling the latest version which is June 2006.

One final thing though, you're using beta display drivers made specifically for the GeForce 7950 GX2 so they could be the problem so why don't you rollback to the 91.33 or 91.31 WHQL ones to see if they resolve your issue?

 

thanks again but I have already done that...
I've started to notic this happening more often ever since I upgraded to the 7900GT...but it's not that its never happened before..
I want to be able to put an end to not knowing what exactly causes this....

It still could be Direct X 9 but is there a particular thing I should be checking to be sure of that...I reinstalled it 3 times and the tests seem to be fine...although I'm trying to find direct X tweaker to check if all the settings are correct...

Yup I am using those beta drivers but I shifted to them after getting this problem...although I'm not sure my previous 91.31 were beta or WHQL...So I'm going to give the WHQL's a double check...

Plus I'm going give 'max fps render ahead' a check too..

will be back...
thanks..

 

its a driver issue.

known about.

will be fixed in a future revision.

 

thanks great to know...oddly enough I didn't have it happening to me before with the same drivers..
Great to know its a known issue....

Did install the WHQL 91.31 , nope no change..

Althrough changing 'Max fps to render ahead' did take tearing toweards the edge of the screen , it still couldn't fix it...

 

That's odd. I've got a Gainward BLISS GeForce 7800 GS+ which is actually a GeForce 7900 GT and although I've used the v91.31 WHQL and am now using the v91.33 I've never seen this "tearing" during video or DVD playback. If I had then it would annoy the hell out of me as it's bad enough when games tear...

 

I had the same tearing problems with recent drivers.

I fixed it in media player 10 by going to advanced video options, turn off high quality mode and use overlays instead.

Fixed my video player, perhaps it could sort yours out too.

 

Darren Hodgson: Your lucky then becuase it really is annoying....worse then having it in games...


Cheekyb0y: Thanks for the tip , will check it out but I doubt that'll solve my VLC or Zoom Player Problem....


I guess I should format....

 

you get tearing when you use VMR9 for your rendering engine. anyone who uses their PC as an HTPC along with everyone on the AVS forums knows and hates this bug. Its caused by a mix of a driver issue on nvidia's side, and a quartz.dll error on microsofts side. Both need to be fixed before it will go away. A way to eliminate it now would be to switch your rendering path to overlay mixer or VMR7. VMR9 looks worlds better then the other 2 though, so i can understand not wanting to do that. Another option that will only partially fix the problem is to download a program called reclock. It will try forcing each frame to be render in sync with the audio, which has the side effect of aiding in removing tearing.

 

its not because of VMR9 , I'm trying things through VLC and thats causing the biggest tears noticably..

It even happens when I'm not using purevideo...while playing normal avi,mpg files...

Cant clutch down on this issue going away...which is annoying as hell...

I just did a format , setup raid etc...latest drivers...

Nothing !

 

i'm also experiencing very annoying tearing during video playback with my 7900GT. could you please post some link where you found out about the problem?
the 7900 series seem to have some annoying driver issues, not only tearing but also problems with driver aspect scaling (i'm using a 16:10 display).
thanks in advance
LosOutlandos

 

Using VMR9 when connected via DVI or Component Video at higher resolutions on Nvidia cards will cause tearing for video playback.

The only solutions are: Use a software media player that supports renderless full screen mode (Theatertek, Zoom Player, or a few others) or select either overlay mixer or VMR7. If you use VMR7 however, you will lose your video adjustments.

This is nothing new, it has to do with the drivers not being able to tell from the hardware when using VMR9 whether or not it is in the interlace period between frames when it refreshes the video buffer with the contents of a new frame. It's been an issue for several years at least.

Vern

 

What i done was overclock the memory and it stopped tearing. on my 7900. stock was somthing luike 700, then i just wacked it up to 800 and it stopped tearing.

 

thanks for the explanation vern.
if it has been an issue for years, is nforced4good's statement that it will be fixed in a future revision true? i mean, the near future?
and by selecting the overlay mixer, where is the setting to that? i chose "force overlay usage" in my video player (light alloy) and there's still tearing.
thanks!

 

I never had tearing with videos

I had seen tearing when loading webpages with large images, that was with internet explorer, I use firefox and never saw any tearing in images.

and when playing video games, I have seen tearing but for me it wasnt to have vsyn on (yes for old games) for new games, I have to keep it on application control to make it work. Maybe my monitor cant handle it. Will see if there is a difference once I get a LCD screen.

 

THIS problem i DO have with my new 8800gtx, and no idea how to solve this, below my txt i already posted in a new thread. but in this thread my problem is described, thats why i post my comment here as well :>

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hey,

i have some problems with the 97.92 drivers ...

i bought my 8800gtx some days ago and have the same problem i had, when i bought my 7800gtx last year *grrr*

movies are interlaced, its extremley disturbing on vcd, xvid/svcd/dvd isnt fine, but better then vcd

a driver update fixed this problem for my 7800gtx card, de-interlacer was mentioned in the driver's issue ... after installing this driver, all movies were fine again ... but WHY do i NOW have this problem again??? and how long do i have to wait this time, until they fix it (i think they only concentrate on vista *damn*)

i already tried some older versions like 97.44 or the 97.73-32bit Guru3D drivers, but same prob

i havent found others with the same prob yet, so is andybody out there, who can help or has the same prob like me?

please help me, dont want to put my 7800gtx back into my pc

 

IM HAVING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM

Ive got an overclocked BFG 8800GTX (which isnt oc'd at all and has to be sent back for an RMA but anyway),
the 8800GTX card was working fine and ran like a charm.

H/e recently I flashed my BIOS and installed the lastest nvidia driver for this card (released May 2nd).

Since then I've been experiencing tearing, not just in games but in movies, videos... everything gfx related.

I dont know if it bcoz of the flash, or of the update, or if i've got a dodgy card.
All I know is that this shouldnt be happening to a $500 card - You should be able to max out everything without a glitch.

Luckily I'm supposed to send this card back for an RMA, but this something i've been experiencing the last couple of days.

My advice is, if you think your cpu/ram isnt bottlenecking
your gpu settings, you should contact XFX/BFG or nvidia and let them know the problem asap.


Meanwhile I'm not going to bother to flash bk to old BIOS.
Instead I'm going to wait for the new GTX to come.
If I still get the same problem, even reverting bk to old BIOS, then I would know something is wrong with either mobo/ram or cpu (god forbid) or gpu.

Will let you know soon.

QX6700
BFG 8800GTX WC OC Edition
Abit IN9-MAX
2G PC2-8500
OCZ 850W GameXstream
Watercooled

 

I was over at a friend's house last night, and his brother was having this same problem. What I did to solve it was download Media Player Classic, went into Options, clicked on Output under Playback and checked the 'Lock back-buffer before processing (may fix broken vertical synchronization)' option. Videos played without a hitch after that. Let me know how that works.