Screen Tearing

Hi,

I have recently bought a new custom built pc. Below are the specifications.

I am getting alot of screen tearing, despite setting Vsync to be on and triple buffering to be on and in-game frame rate limit 60fps and on Higher setting. I am getting the tearing during the character login screen, in-game play especially when there's alot of actions around me, however, i don't get any problems with video cutscenes. I am running the game in borderless window, also tried out full screen and windowed and they all show tearing.

I have updated the drivers for the monitor and graphics card and it is still the same.

Are there any fixes?

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Qb2Lmux.jpg

CPU: INTEL® Core™ i5-4590 Quad Core 3.30 GHz 6MB Cache LGA1150 + HD Grapics

Motherboard: ASUS H81M-D Plus INTEL H81 Chipset, Micro ATX Mainboard w/ 2 RAM slots, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB 3.0, SATA-III, 1x Gen2 PCIe x16, 2x PCIe x 1

Memory: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3/1866mhz Dual Channel Memory

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB

Power Supply Unit: 600Watt Corsair Power Supply Unit

Hard Drive: 120GB Samsung 840 SSD & 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive

Monitor: ASUS VE228TR 21.5" 5ms 1920x1080, 60Hz

Operating System: Windows 7 64bit

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SYSTEM_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_DATE 19/08/2014 22:14:48
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The images you are seeing on the sides of the screen are a new option they added on a previous patch. It's a visual clue to the sounds being played. It can be turned off by:
System Config > Accessibility settings > and uncheck Enable Visual Alerts. That should make those wave bars go away.

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Originally Posted by TalusMarqs

The images you are seeing on the sides of the screen are a new option they added on a previous patch. It's a visual clue to the sounds being played. It can be turned off by:
System Config > Accessibility settings > and uncheck Enable Visual Alerts. That should make those wave bars go away.

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You are are STAR!!!! I cannot believe how simple it was. It has worked, thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /lalahug