Camera Stuttering and Screen Tearing

[nasomi]

Have you tried setting AA to 4 or 8x? that may help. To be honest I'm not sure what screen tearing looks like as I've never had it, but sounds like buffering will help the issue. Your specs look more than sufficient to run on medium settings, other than slightly low on ram. I hit about 4gb total when running not much other than ffxiv, and up to 5.5gb when I start browsing and watching videos.

[Lerend]

Have you tried setting AA to 4 or 8x? that may help. To be honest I'm not sure what screen tearing looks like as I've never had it, but sounds like buffering will help the issue. Your specs look more than sufficient to run on medium settings, other than slightly low on ram. I hit about 4gb total when running not much other than ffxiv, and up to 5.5gb when I start browsing and watching videos.

I've tried AA x2, x4, x8, and off. It's not the models themselves that are jagged, its the camera movement that is stuttering. Low settings, high settings, doesn't matter. The screen tearing and camera stutter are still there.

As for the screen tearing, for the quick and dirty explanation it happens when the next frame gets drawn to screen out of sync with the rate at which the screen refreshes completely, causing part of your screen to be displaying the current frame while the remainder of the screen is still displaying the previous frame. It typically happens when you're getting a framerate higher than the refresh rate of your monitor (usually 60Hz). Enabling Vsync is supposed to limit your framerate to 60 even if your system *could* draw frames faster than that so as to not go over the refresh rate and thus never draw frames faster than the monitor can refresh them. Unfortunately, the game itself does not have a Vsync option built into the engine, and forcing Vsync in Catalyst Control Center has always had issues where it just *doesnt* enforce Vsync with a lot of applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing for more information.

As for my RAM, I have no idea what you're doing in the background where you're using almost 6 gigs of ram just watching videos o.O Idling with a handful of regular-use applications open i'm hitting about ~1.5GB usage and i've yet to find an application that's topped out the full 4GB. I'm running most settings in FF14 around the "high" range and everything looks beautiful and stable between 45 and 60 FPS (forcing vsync *is* capping me at 60 FPS, but the tearing is still there ><) aside from these two minor annoyances.

Further googling lead me to some threads where people claimed that D3Doverrider/Rivatuner/MSI Afterburner successfully enforced Vsync and eliminated their screen tearing issues, but i'd rather not run unstable and outdated tools and possibly damage my system just to get rid of an annoying screen line.