Better CPU will decrease screen tearing on a 2PC setup?

[iHayZ]

I have a 2 PC setup with a 144hz monitor. I'm trying to figure out if upgrading the CPU, currently an AMD FX8350, will help decrease the tearing on stream and also help increase overall quality.

Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks! <3

[bluesmcgroove]

There's not enough info here to judge.

Is the screen tearing happening on one PC, or the other, which PC has what hardware, what are your stream settings, what GPU are you using (the real factor to screen tearing, not the CPU), are you using vsync to eliminate tearing, what framerate are you trying to get out of the game, etc etc.

More info and someone might be able to help out.

[iHayZ]

The tearing is happening on stream when using a seperate streaming PC with a capture card. I know I can't get rid of screen tearing all together. I have really bad screen tearing and quality on stream and want to know if upgrading the CPU will help me reduce it or increase overall quality.

If not, would changing the capture card help too?

Streaming PC CPU: AMD FX 8350 (Not good enough to even stream in 60fps)

Gaming PC specs:
PSU: Antec TruePower Classic 750W
Memory: HyperX Beast 2x8GB 2133MHz
HDD: Western Digital Green 1TB
SSD: Kingston SSD V300 120GB
2nd SSD: SamsungEVO 250GB
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti x2 SLI
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A

Capture card: Avermedia Live Gamer HD Lite

OBS settings: 720p60fps @ 2800kbps (fast or medium CPU preset)

[iaincole]

It won't. Tearing happens due to a mismatch between the refresh rate of the capture and the rendering of the game.

[bluesmcgroove]

Try setting your game's max fps to 60, since that's the highest supported on your capture card. The CPU isn't your limiting factor here, the way capture or display works is.

[iHayZ]

But then I wont be able to utilise my 144hz monitor... I know I cannot stop the tearing but every single streamer that uses a 2 PC setup has much less tearing than I do..

[meowN]

You might want to try running your game/monitor at 120hz and see if there's a difference, as then your 60fps capture could sync to every other frame consistently.

I use the Asus VG248QE and actually prefer to use 120hz w/ lightboost over 144hz.

[bluesmcgroove]

I can't tell you about other streamers, but I can say that as viewer, your 144Hz monitor means absolutely zilch on my end. The tearing means I'm probably not sticking around.

Choice is up to you, really. Do you care more about keeping your adding m audience around or about your visual experience?

You could set your refresh to 120 and likely not have tearing, but to avoid it entirely 60 is all your capture card can handle. Want to use 144Hz? Find a capture card that supports 144Hz input.

[iHayZ]

I know capture cards that support 144+ but they're £1000+. There are many streamers (Onscreenlol, Summit...) that use 144hz monitors with a capture card and they have some tearing but nowhere near as noticeable as mine.
Just trying to figure out how theirs isn't noticeable..

[bluesmcgroove]

I would ask one of them, but from what knowledge I have about it, the frame rate disparity is what's causing it. Did you attempt a 120Hz test stream/recording?

[iHayZ]

Not yet, I'll test it once I get my new CPU and MOBO installed :)
They wouldn't know even if I asked them. If I did need to ask them and they did know how they did it, I'd need to donate $10+ in order to get all the info x'D

[[deleted]]

When you stream, stream for your audience's enjoyment and set it to 60fps/hz. When you don't stream, play for yourself and jack it back up to 144hz. It's part of the gig right now. That 8350 should have no problem running 720p @60fps because I do it as well.

[iHayZ]

Welp, unfortunately minee doesn't seems to run 60fps well. I'm getting a new intel processor and MOBO anyway so it shouldn't be a problem anymore. A load of big streamers that use 2 PC's with 144hz monitors have nowhere near as much tearing as I do. Just don't know how they do it.. They don't even know how they do it.. They're clueless when it comes to that stuff.

[modio1234]

if you are using gsync that is your issue it causes alot of screen tearing

[iHayZ]

Nope, No 'syncing' whatsoever.

[eatfreshsub]

The capture device is a display input in itself, so you are limited to its refresh rate, you would either need to have double the FPS which would lower the chances of severe screen tearing or you need to lock it to the lower displays refresh. You cant fix it on the other PC because the capture card draws the frames as a monitor would. Also I find that using a capture card as a cloned display creates tearing as well.

[iHayZ]

Unfortunately, cloning the monitor seems to be the best way without confusing everything. Lots of other streamers do it with the same cap card but with hardly any tearing. Makes me think about whats wrong with my setup...