Ok, i got a geforce 4 ti 4600 a few weeks ago and I have no problems with fps in multiplayer when I have vsync turned off. (r_swapinterval 0)

But I NEVER remembered the texture tearing effect being this bad. It's absolutely umbearable. If i turn vync on it looks good but it allows my fps to drop to 30 in some places. With vsycn turned off my fps never goes below 50 and that's how it should be.

But one thing is for sure, before, i never noticed the tearing effect to be this bad. Is there any way I can work down the problem and still leave vsync off? I've tried manually setting my max fps to my monitor refresh rate (60). It still tears like a biscuit eater. Since raven didnt put a visual option in the menu to toggle vysnc on and off, I'm wondering if anyone else is having this tearing effect as bad as I am.

Hmm, 60 is your max refresh rate on the monitor?  Well that's your problem.  I had the same tearing effect when my monitor was defaulting to 60 so I downloaded the nvidia refresh rate fix and upped to 120.  Now I have no tearing at all.

So you have vysnc off and no tearing? or do you have it on but just a higher refresh rate


i have a 19 inch monitor but if i set it past 60 hrtz refresh rate my screen shakes. I have no idea why....

I have it off, because I like the extra frames per second.

I have it off as well and have never experienced any tearing.

You can tell if you have tearing when u turn corners and u see a sorta splitting effect on edges of textures. It is especially noticable when you walk through door frames and such. But I used to have a geforce 3 and i never had the tearing effect. Since i got the geforce 4 it's almost like my frames are too much higher than my refresh rate or something. It tears like mad, especially on mp_shop. Like i said, vysnc fixes the problem but it kills my fps.

I wonder if the probelm would be fixed if i had a new monitor with a better refresh rate....

Yes a new monitor w/ high refresh rate would fix it.
I never saw tearing until my previous monitor died and i had to use an old (but large) monitor which maxed at 60Hz refresh.

cool.

Any game without vsync on = fugly  

I use vsync=on, since I had the same problem with my GF4-4400.

My refress is 100Hz, but I could set it to 120 (might be worth a go) 19" monitor

in MP I get 50-100FPS in 1024x768 with everything on.