Screen tearing

[Grafu]

Describe the bug

Screen keeps tearing while playing MTA.

To reproduce

Move camera around.

Expected behaviour

Screen should not have break lines when rendered. Those break lines messes up screen when moving camera.

Screenshots

Screenshotting does not capture the tear, so uploading what screen tearing looks like.

Version

MTA:SA Server v1.5.6-release-14489
Multi Theft Auto v1.5.6-release-1466

Windows 10

Are you sure that this is not releated to your OS / Hardware ? By rendered - do you mean the default rendering behaviour or are you talking about dx(Create/Update)ScreenSource ?

• LuX

[Grafu]

Default behavior. I am not sure if it's related to hardware or OS. I have friends who are also complaining about this.

[AlexTMjugador]

As far as I know, MTA/GTA don't deal with VSync or buffering to face this problem by default, so I'd say it's normal for it to happen depending on what the graphics driver decides to do by default. What happens if VSync or triple buffering are forced on the graphics driver settings? A quick Google search shows how to do that.

[Dutchman101]

GTA is an old game, MTA fixes some GTA issues and improves upon its engine, but things like this were a goal of MTA:EIR which unfortunately never got finished.

I'm not too sure about what you mean, but can you please confirm the issue also appears in GTA?
If so, then this is unfortunately invalid as we do not focus on deep renderer issues that EIR planned to fix in GTA.

[qaisjp]

We still accept these sort of issues, it's just likely that it will take us a long time to fix them (or impossible).

Eir does not influence what we cannot do in MTA, it instead shows us what we could one day introduce.

[Einheit-101]

GSync and Freesync have been created to prevent this. However i feel that GSync doesnt really work perfectly because i still see some tearing.

[Grafu]

The tearing is still present with VSync and Trible Buffering enabled in Nvidia control panel for GTA SA.

[ccw808]

Using full screen standard?
Does the tear appear every frame in the same place?

[Grafu]

Using full screen standard. Tearing appears in different places.

[Dutchman101]

I must be honest, today I was running MTA on my laptop (Nvidia) and noticed a type of tearing that I had never seen before. I started up a recorder and suddenly it was way harder to reproduce, even in the same location and after closing the recording app. Maybe certain (lightning) circumstances played a role, as I didnt see it after that point. It happened on the surface of a customly placed GTA speaker box object, the edges teared into the plain surroundings.

I am just saying that maybe a recent change has somehow caused what you're describing, as I saw something (very odd) that may be the thing you're describing for a first time. If you have a solid reproduction for your perceived issue, then please take to a physical recording unit as you said that screenshots or similar wouldn't capture the distortion.

@Grafu, you also said: "I have friends who are also complaining about this." > was this recent, is there a clear surge in this type of complaints that you heard? If so, can you ask each one of them approximately when it started to happen? (and answer this for yourself)

[Grafu]

[patrikjuvonen]

Will be hard to trace the source in the future if we don't know when the tearing started to occur. If someone with tearing could say an approximate date or test some old builds and see which change approximately caused it?

[Wolfee-J]

I don't recall seeing any screen tearing in the past (And am now experiencing it myself with the latest update 'I haven't updated for a while because I've just been on my private Dev server most of the time') so some update in Early October did it.

[Grafu]

I wouldn't be that sure about October. I am experiencing this issue quite a long time, maybe some earlier Windows 10 update could affect this. + The tearing appears in similar place most of the time (around 25% from the screen top).