Not posted in a while since starting out under my own steam as a freelancer. Hard work!!
Anyway,
I've noticed some screen tearing on my new rig - a Dell XPS 8700 with Geforce 650 Ti. This screen tearing is occurring simply on the desktop under normal use, normally when something is moving across the screen at an average pace. This is not occuring in Games, presumably as Vsync is doing it's job. But on the desk top... Pain in the ass!
So googled this for a while and came up a with a lot of people having the same problem but they were all on Windows 7 and had decided for one reason or another, to disable Windows Aero. Windows 8 doesn't have Aero so this was not my problem.
I played with the force V-sync settings in Nvidia Control panel. - no go.
Then I thought about my weird dual monitor setup and how most settings were unavailable for the secondary monitor (even though it's the Primary). I had windows set up to "duplicate displays" under the Screen Resolution control panel (Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display\Screen Resolution or simply right click on the desktop -> Screen Resolution)
I set it back to "extend" instead of "duplicate" and the problem appears to have gone away!
Yay.
