Why is my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti tearing in Expeditions: Rome?
While commanding legions from the overhead view, I noticed blatant horizontal tearing across the middle of the screen, which became a total nightmare during fast zooms. My Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC was pushing between 120 - 150 FPS, but the G-Sync module was straight-up failing on certain driver versions, causing a massive mismatch between the refresh rate and frame delivery. I first tried enabling basic V-Sync in-game, but that added about 25ms of input lag, making the controls feel sluggish and unresponsive, which left me completely baffled. I eventually updated to the latest Game Ready driver and switched V-Sync to 'Fast' in the NVIDIA Control Panel, while capping the max frame rate at 141 FPS. Monitoring via RivaTuner showed the frame time variance of 6 - 18ms tighten up to a rock steady 6.5 - 7.1ms, and the tearing vanished. I did hit a snag where the screen flickered slightly after enabling Fast Sync, but locking the monitor to exactly 144Hz fixed it. VRAM usage stayed between 7.4 - 8.2GB with core temps sitting at 64 - 70℃. Frame time analysis confirmed the stability at 6.5 - 7.1ms.
