How do I stop screen tearing on a Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC?

In the middle of those chaotic dinosaur chases, the screen kept splitting horizontally, making it a total nightmare to track targets. My Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC was bouncing between 2.6GHz and 2.8GHz, causing frame times to swing wildly from 4.2ms to 11.8ms. I tried turning on standard V-Sync in-game, but that was a mistake—it didn't stop the tearing and added over 20ms of input lag, which felt incredibly sluggish. I eventually went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, enabled G-Sync Compatible mode, and used RTSS to hard-cap the frame rate at 141 FPS to keep it just under my monitor's refresh rate. Looking at the frame time analyzer, those jagged spikes flattened into a clean line. Interestingly, when I first tried capping at 144 FPS, I still felt a slight jitter because it hit the refresh ceiling; dropping it by 3 frames finally nailed it. GPU temps stayed around 64-69℃ with fans at 1600 RPM, and frame times finally locked in at 5.1-6.4ms.
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