Installation problems and Vsync Question

Pat42 · 12-25-07, 01:30 PM

Hey, I am having some SH3 problems with tearing. I recently installed a Nvidia 7600 GT card (very fast) and had excellent frame rates, no tearing to be heard of. Then Sh3 was CTDing on me whenever I tried to enter a career, so I uninstalled it. I did something very stupid before I uninstalled the game, which was uninstall GWX shortcuts. So my uninstall was pretty wierd, with lots of crazy messages poping up. I reinstalled, but for some reason setup wouldnt complete after it copied over the game files, just got stuck on "computing system requirements" which I believe proceeds Game shadow installation. So setup could not complete, but the game seems to work properly, wierd though.

Now, I am getting tons of tearing. In Nvidia control panel I force vsync on w/ triple buffering, which does nothing. All my other settings seem to be implemented, antialiasing and everything seems to work good. Does SH3 not support triple buffering? I have enabled synchronization in game, which seems to have double buffering instead of triple, so my frame rate goes straight to hell if it drops below 60; it goes straight to 30, which I don't like at all. (I didn't pay all this cash just to have my video card capped at 30 frames did I?

) Before the crappy uninstall mentioned above I guess vsync wasn't on either now that I think about it since my frames would be extremely high, but I wasn't getting all this tearing. Don't know what to do, any help will be appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
Regards,
Patrick

12-25-07, 01:30 PM	#1
Pat42 Watch Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 30 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	Installation problems and Vsync Question Hey, I am having some SH3 problems with tearing. I recently installed a Nvidia 7600 GT card (very fast) and had excellent frame rates, no tearing to be heard of. Then Sh3 was CTDing on me whenever I tried to enter a career, so I uninstalled it. I did something very stupid before I uninstalled the game, which was uninstall GWX shortcuts. So my uninstall was pretty wierd, with lots of crazy messages poping up. I reinstalled, but for some reason setup wouldnt complete after it copied over the game files, just got stuck on "computing system requirements" which I believe proceeds Game shadow installation. So setup could not complete, but the game seems to work properly, wierd though. Now, I am getting tons of tearing. In Nvidia control panel I force vsync on w/ triple buffering, which does nothing. All my other settings seem to be implemented, antialiasing and everything seems to work good. Does SH3 not support triple buffering? I have enabled synchronization in game, which seems to have double buffering instead of triple, so my frame rate goes straight to hell if it drops below 60; it goes straight to 30, which I don't like at all. (I didn't pay all this cash just to have my video card capped at 30 frames did I? ) Before the crappy uninstall mentioned above I guess vsync wasn't on either now that I think about it since my frames would be extremely high, but I wasn't getting all this tearing. Don't know what to do, any help will be appreciated. Sorry for the long post. Regards, Patrick