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Stuttering & Screen Tearing on GTX 1050 (4 gb) [fixed]
crzy_gal_101
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After a 2 month break, I've finally decided to go back to playing The Sims 3 on my HP Omen gaming laptop. When I first installed the game + all eps & sps (except sweet treats) I had installed Nvidia Inspector to lock my fps to 60 and to enable v-sync. At that time I had screen tearing issues with these settings enabled, but after researching online running The Sims 3 in Windows 7 compatibility mode can remove the screen tears, which it did at the time. During these two months I had updated my graphics card drivers twice, resulting in my game settings & Nvidia Inspector settings to be reset. After changing the settings to both programs back, I'm now getting screen tearing & stuttering with compatibility mode on. 
To try to solve the problem I rolled back my graphics card drivers to the prior update, but I still am getting the screen tearing & stuttering. I noticed that when I went to desktop when playing the game in compatibility mode the desktop is no longer washed out like how it was when I was playing the game 2 months ago when the game played perfectly. I think I might have had the Inspector settings set differently then I had them to before updating my drivers (is there a way to roll back to the factory driver????). Also in windowed mode, TS3 doesn't screen tear, but it does stutter. Can someone help me?
Laptop info: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-omen-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-1tb-hdd-onyx-black-twinkle-black/5712737.p?skuId=5712737
dxdiag
Current Nvidia Inspector Settings:
Nvidia Control Panel Settings:
To try to solve the problem I rolled back my graphics card drivers to the prior update, but I still am getting the screen tearing & stuttering. I noticed that when I went to desktop when playing the game in compatibility mode the desktop is no longer washed out like how it was when I was playing the game 2 months ago when the game played perfectly. I think I might have had the Inspector settings set differently then I had them to before updating my drivers (is there a way to roll back to the factory driver????). Also in windowed mode, TS3 doesn't screen tear, but it does stutter. Can someone help me?Laptop info: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-omen-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-1tb-hdd-onyx-black-twinkle-black/5712737.p?skuId=5712737
dxdiag
Current Nvidia Inspector Settings:
Nvidia Control Panel Settings:
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Every time you update your video card it will reset everything including your game launcher.
I don't use nvidia inspector. Im on the 1.67 patch and vsync works fine for me. as @igazor he knows of a few programs that might help
A few additional thoughts:
-- Have you checked your actual fps rates in-game? It's cheats console, fps on, enter. To make the display go away again, cheats console, fps off, enter.
-- I would suggest switching off Win 7 compat mode. It really shouldn't be needed.
-- You are using a profile on the Nvidia Control Panel above for TS3.exe. That's for Patch 1.69 only. If you aren't on Patch 1.69, then the correct one is TS3w.exe (with the "w").
-- If you have used GeForce Experience to optimize your game (although not mentioned), you may want to go back in and undo that with the Revert button. It can make a mess of older games like TS3.
-- If you are on Win 10, possibly you have the Creator Update and it's getting in the way of fps locking, among other things?
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