So after playing a few hours and doing countless missions except the main quest I've come to the conclusion that my Witcher 3 game has constant screen tearing. Only way I could limit the tearing was by tweaking with a few options in game but it's still there (thankfully no where near as much as before though), and can be a bit annoying when trying to enjoy the visuals. Anyone else have this problem and found a fix to it? Even with vsync on, it does absolutely nothing to prevent the screen tearing.

My build isn't the best but it should definitely be able to run this game smooth on medium settings.

Intel Core i5-4590 Quad-Core 3.3GHz
Radeon R9 290
8GB RAM

Have a lower system spec than you and not getting any tearing.. so I really don't know..

Yeh he said he tried that.. maybe try a combination of v-sync and lock FPS at 30fps or something like that?

If you have screen-tearing with v-sync on then v-sync is not actually "on". Check/update your GPU drivers and config.

I did not know that, thanks for the info.

I had the same problem, but turning on V-Sync and setting the FPS lock to 60 seems to have fixed it for me. ( Despite usually being below 60 FPS. )

Also, try activating full-screen mode as others suggested.

Make sure your fps cap isn't higher than your panels refresh rate

I have the same problem with a Geforce 970 GTX, 2 monitors. Mainmonitor had 1680x1050

The problem is nothing fixed the problem. Witcher 3 is the only game where vsync on not help.

Savage Lands had this problem too for a time. i played the game only with vsync off for a time (with vsync on tearing was extrem) but the game is Early Access and they fixed it after bugreport.

Here i have tested all. vsync off/on 60/30/unlimitied... tearing dont stop.

Newest nvidia driver is installed.

I have seen more people with a 907 with the same problem... i hope they fixed it fast. With this extrem tearing i become motion sickness...

Oh wow that actually did the trick. Damn I had a feeling there was an easy fix I couldn't find. Thanks.

arghs thx too. i was 100 % sure it was fullcreeen but standartoption really is borderless windowmode... with fullscreen it runs now... big thx and gog... aua... Fullscreen must be the standart

Well it works for the screen tearing, but it makes the game freeze like crazy now. *sigh* Looks like you can never fix a problem without another coming up.

My problem has been the run away train that is the Frames Per Second. In gameplay, I'm doing smooth high 50's, then drops to low 20's for reasons I can't explain. Then in the in-game conversations, the frame rate goes from the high 50's to mid teens.

All the settings on low don't help this. I just don't understand. I'm 99.9% certain it's the driver or optimization of the game cause this has literally never happened to me, and I own 210+ steam games, with lots of next gen titles too.

Edit: I'm taking a few hours break from the game as I write this cause the FPS rocket ride is giving me eye strain.

I'm not sure about your hardware, but i've noticed that this can happen in several cases with my AMD R9 280x

-GPU crash, then recovery: Despite the fact the GPU 'recovered' from the crash, the performance usually drops to less than half until I reboot it.

-GPU overheat: With my card if the temperature of the voltage regulators, or GPU gets too high it will throttle the card's performance, only restoring normal frame rates ones the GPU has dropped below a certain temperature threshold.

Perhaps this wont help, but monitor the GPU temperatures while in game; I highly recommend GPU-Z since it can also monitor GPU load and clock rate so that you can see when the GPU is throttling.