How to stop screen tearing on Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC?
During chaotic team fights, those horizontal tear lines were making me incredibly anxious; it totally killed my precision when firing off abilities. The Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC was pumping out 110-145 FPS, but my monitor was locked at 144Hz, leaving a sync gap of 12-18ms. I tried turning on V-Sync in-game, but the input lag shot up to over 40ms, making the controls feel like I was wading through mud—it was almost unbearable. I eventually went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced G-Sync Compatible mode, and capped the max frame rate at 141 FPS to ensure the frame time stayed within the refresh cycle. In RTSS, the frame time graph went from a jagged mess to a flat line, shrinking from 6.2-15.8ms down to 6.8-7.2ms. Right after enabling G-Sync, I noticed some slight brightness flickering, which I only fixed by updating to driver version 562.11 and killing the overlays. VRAM usage is now 6.2-7.1GB and core temps are 61-67℃. The tearing is completely gone, and the mouse feel is finally snappy again.
