{"id":57149,"date":"2024-09-14T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T04:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastfist.com\/blog\/?p=57149"},"modified":"2024-09-14T22:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T04:38:24","slug":"how-to-actually-fix-screen-tearing-in-duckstation-not-just-enabling-vsync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/14\/how-to-actually-fix-screen-tearing-in-duckstation-not-just-enabling-vsync\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Actually Fix Screen Tearing in DuckStation Not Just Enabling VSync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fixScreenTearDuckStationNvidia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fixScreenTearDuckStationNvidia-300x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re just embarrassed for DuckStation when it can&#8217;t even run ancient games like &#8220;Final Fantasy V&#8221; in emulation on modern PCs without screen tearing, it&#8217;s not as simple as &#8220;enable vsync&#8221;. The Enable VSync is right in there in DuckStation, but you can do all sorts of tricks, check this, uncheck that, whatever, and a simple ass game like &#8220;Final Fantasy V&#8221; just won&#8217;t run smoothly without that ugly distracting screentearing. So here&#8217;s the real solution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Actually Fix Screen Tearing in DuckStation Not Just Enabling VSync\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9cb1PtaAGD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not using Vulkan as your renderer or switching to software rendering. Trust me. It&#8217;s not running at native resolution, turning off all enhancements and filters, fixing wonky geometry, none of that. It helps, but clearly I&#8217;ve tried them all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because that damn entire emulator is built on top of DirectX, so you need to do some additional settings from your Nvidia Control Panel to fully utilize DirectX gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p>Open your Nvidia Control Panel (assuming you have a Nvidia GPU) and add the DuckStation exe to the &#8220;Manage 3D Setting&#8221; panel. Then look for an option labeled &#8220;Maximum pre-rendered frames&#8221; and max it up. There&#8217;s also options for triple buffering which you might want to enable too. It doesn&#8217;t hurt. But the idea is you need to pre-buffer even those basic ass 2D frames if you want smooth gameplay in DuckStation. &#8220;Tenchu Stealth Assassins&#8221; also has the same problem and seems to have disappeared after I set this crap in Nvidia Control Panel. Hey, give it a try on your own PC. My old Windows 7 PC playing old ass DuckStation version 0.1.5624. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re just embarrassed for DuckStation when it can&#8217;t even run ancient games like &#8220;Final Fantasy V&#8221; in emulation on modern PCs without screen tearing, it&#8217;s not as simple as &#8220;enable vsync&#8221;. The Enable VSync is right in there in DuckStation, but you can do all sorts of tricks, check this, uncheck that, whatever, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[802,842,972,1799,1942,2271,2778],"class_list":["post-57149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-tech","tag-duckstation","tag-emulation","tag-fix","tag-nvidia","tag-playstation","tag-screentearing","tag-vsync"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}