Question / Help OBS' Presence Causing Screen Tearing In Fullscreen?

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ThatHoboWhoSucksAtOBS

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I've been using OBS for quite some time now, but I've never encountered this issue before. I play all of my games in fullscreen (who doesn't lol), but recently I noticed that some games just don't like it when OBS is open and I have the game in fullscreen, and I get very bad screen tearing in the game. The problem occurs even when I'm not streaming or recording, the mere presence of OBS seems to cause this. I've tested and troubleshooted all I could for the past few days - it happens on old versions of OBS, it happens on the newest version, with my custom settings, with the default settings, with x264, with NVENC, and it only happens when the game I'm playing is in fullscreen and OBS is running. Windowed is completely fine, I've even been using borderless windowed which works like a charm besides the input lag, which is honestly more of a turn-off than screen tearing. The problem stopped when I turned adaptive v-sync on in the NVidia Control Panel, but obviously, that isn't a viable option because it limits my GPU's performance to put out 60fps, which won't be consistent due to entities and particles spawning in. It happens in all games I've tested it in, but strangely enough, it's the worst in CS:GO and Minecraft 1.7.10 and 1.8.9. Out of curiosity, I tried Minecraft 1.13 (the newest version) and the problem is gone. Strange. Any help or ideas are appreciated.

Log: https://hastebin.com/zocegisoyi
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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There's not really much more to say. Vsync is the answer to screen tearing, and the advice for anyone having trouble running games and OBS on the same machine is to cap the framerate in the game you're playing.

How many monitors do you have connected, and what are their refresh rates?
 
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ThatHoboWhoSucksAtOBS

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Narcogen said:
There's not really much more to say. Vsync is the answer to screen tearing, and the advice for anyone having trouble running games and OBS on the same machine is to cap the framerate in the game you're playing.

How many monitors do you have connected, and what are their refresh rates?
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I have a single 60Hz monitor. I don't know why it happens, but OBS being open triggers severe screen tearing for me.
 
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ThatHoboWhoSucksAtOBS

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shameless bump

i could really use some input here. i know for a fact that my Ryzen 5 2600X and GTX 1060 are more than enough to run the games I play and record/stream at the same time with no issues. the problem is that obs simply being open makes minecraft suffer from extreme screen tearing. it doesnt show up in the recording, however. maybe that'll help? any and all feedback/ideas are very appreciated.

side note: this problem doesn't occur with other recording software (shadowplay, bandicam, gamebar, etc.). i've used obs with minimal issues for a very long time, and i would love to continue using it, but worst comes to worst i'll just bite the bullet and use a different program to record and stream with. im reserving that as a last resort, however. again, if you have ANYTHING that even remotely resembles a potential solution, please dont hesitate to let me know. i'm quite desperate in case you couldnt tell xd
 
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ThatHoboWhoSucksAtOBS

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also, when i have obs open recording minecraft and other resource-consuming apps are open (teamspeak, chrome, discord, photoshop, etc), task manager says my cpu is at around 17% utilization, my ram is at 58%, and my gpu is at 25%. so yes, i'm completely sure my hardware isn't being overloaded / isnt the limiting factor here.
 
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