Why is my Gigabyte RTX 5060 tearing during fast movements?
While exploring the forests in Avowed, I kept seeing these horizontal breaks across the screen, and it got way worse whenever I flicked the camera. My Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 WINDFORCE 8G was clocking steady between 2415-2520 MHz, but the frame times were jumping wildly from 12-22 ms, meaning the GPU and monitor were totally out of sync. I tried enabling V-Sync in-game first, but that was a nightmare—input lag spiked to over 45 ms and the controls felt like I was playing in mud. I eventually dove into the NVIDIA Control Panel and switched Vertical Sync to 'Fast' while capping the max frame rate at 141 FPS. Checking the RTSS curve, the frame time jitter dropped from 10 ms down to a tight 3 ms, and the tearing finally vanished. I did hit a snag where enabling Low Latency Mode caused some micro-stutters, but that cleared up once I flipped my Windows power plan to 'High Performance'. Core temps stayed around 62-67℃ with fans humming at 1300-1600 RPM. Saved the profile in the control panel and it's been rock steady.
