I know this has been mentioned but no one has really proposed a proper work around or described it in full.

Usually in a game you get horizontal tearing when the frame rate exceeds the monitor refresh rate. This is fixed simply by applying vsync. Well, I always run my games with vsync forced by utilizing D3DOverrider (triple buffering of course).

Although my frame rate never exceeds my monitor refresh rate of 60 Hz while playing RAGE, I still get this very weird horizontal tearing unlike anything I've seen in a game before. This is the only 'game breaking' problem I've encountered aside from the low res textures but meh. Still a great fps game and a great tribute to Doom and Quake.

Forcing vsync in the nvidia control panel and also forcing it via steam launch options doesn't fix it. I'm guessing this issue can only be resolved with a patch.

Hopefully id will take notice.

Don't suppose by some off chance someone has found a way to eliminate this problem entirely?

If you are forcing it in the control panel, you have to create a new profile just for Rage and force it in that. I did this and can confirm VSYNC does work. You can also put seta r_swapInterval 1 in your rage config file (1 for enabled, 0 for disabled).

Snuffhit,

Do you mean a thin horizontal line that appears all the time when moving or turning around?
If yes, I do have the same and luckily it didn't disrupt the fluidity of the game.
what I did was forcing Vsync and triple buffering in nvidia control panel.
Reduce the anti-aliasing to perhaps 4.
I did notice 30% improvement.

i was having a problem getting vsync to work, basically just trying that line for rageconfig.cfg and forcing it on globally in the nvidia control panel... but nothing worked for me. eventually i checked the specific rage profile in the control panel and somehow for some unknown reason the option for vsync was forced off!? no idea how or why. anyways after i put it back into use global setting which for me is "use 3d application" and put that line back in rageconfig.cfg, vsync works great now. this fix along with the force 8k textures fix and the most current bf3 beta driver from nvidia this game is finally worthy of being played on my 1080 tv and getting hooked up to the speakers. cheers

forcing vsync on sovled the problem for me.


i am very reluctant to enable vsync in general, as i am a crossfire user, vsync can do bad things to me. i experienced no negative side effects though.

Good for you Surxenberg, Crazykreaper

Small question for you:

In the rageconfig.cfg can I copy all the lines in the default.cfg plus of course the 8k fix?

Thanks

Please id, just fix the screen tearing.

I can play with the low res textures.

Is it just me or are most of the issues with the AMD users? So glad I came back to the nvidia side when I purchased a gfx card for this generation. The 5xx series poo poo's all over the 6xxx series.

LMAO!

The new patch added vsync support, too bad it STILL doesn't work. I enabled it and for some reason it defaults back to being off. I tried enabling "SMART" vsync and again it defaults back to being off.

Screen tearing is still present when I force vsync via other means.

Can't wait for BF3 now because this game will be malfunctioning for some time I predict.

Ok...

Found my problem, the Rage profile in the nvidia control panel forces vsync off by default. I changed it to "use the application setting" and now I can enable vsync in game.

All screen tearing gone.

Now the game is playable

Setting Vsync in the config, and now the options didn't help for this problem. Luckily it's not that noticeable.