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Odd lines across screen in PES4...help!

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Mikeyh8

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Hey all. New to this forum so go easy on me if this is the wrong place....

Basically, when playing PES4 i see a sort of 'line' on the screen about 1/3 and 2/3s down. I know what this is....it's called 'tearing' and happens when your frames per second outstrip the refresh rate on your monitor. I think that VSync is designed to correct this, i.e. forcing a maximum FPS of your refresh rate, in my case 60fps.

I cant find any in-game option to turn on VSync, so my question is:
How do I alter these more technical graphics settings?

Im pretty sure that tearing is the cause, because I've got a pretty kick-ass PC (Athlon 3200XP, Radeon 9800 Pro, 1GB RAM) and it runs perfectly smoothly. But now i've noticed these lines I can't stop. It stops the game looking like a real TV broadcast :D

Any help is appreciated, cheers
Mikeyh8
 
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lariz

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Tearing can happen when the fps is lower than the refresh rate too although it is rare.
To fix, force vsync in your vid card settings (right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced, control centre or 3d settings iirc if you havnt got cc, etc)
 
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Mikeyh8

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lariz said:
Tearing can happen when the fps is lower than the refresh rate too although it is rare.
To fix, force vsync in your vid card settings (right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced, control centre or 3d settings iirc if you havnt got cc, etc)
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Ok thanks, but is there anything I can use to edit the PES4 exe. I presume forcing it on my video card would do it for every game, and its only PES4 that gives me this problem. I think it's definitely because my FPS are higher, since it happens a lot, not just occasionally. By the way is anyone else noticing this too?

Also, I did try what you suggested above. However the only options for VSync in my graphics card properties are Application Preference, or Always Off. Always Off would be no good, so I need some way within PES4 to enable it.
 
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lariz

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Mikeyh8 said:
Ok thanks, but is there anything I can use to edit the PES4 exe.
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Yeah there is a program(s) that can do this but i cant remember the name. Will find out for you if you really want to do it that way.
edit: 3d analyzer is the program i was thinking of, i think...
I presume forcing it on my video card would do it for every game, and its only PES4 that gives me this problem. I think it's definitely because my FPS are higher, since it happens a lot, not just occasionally. By the way is anyone else noticing this too?
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Well youre seeing it in pes4 because theres a hell of a lot of horizontal movement in that game. Keeping it forced in every game should be perfectly fine.
Also, I did try what you suggested above. However the only options for VSync in my graphics card properties are Application Preference, or Always Off. Always Off would be no good, so I need some way within PES4 to enable it.
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You should get the latest drivers then, along with the control centre. There will be 4 options: always off, off unless application specifies, on unless application specifies and always on. I keep it always on.
 
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Mikeyh8

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Ok cheers for your help. I did download the latest drivers only yesterday, for some totally odd reason I can never get the catalyst control centre to work :/

When windows loads and the control centre is going into the taskbar it brings up an error, and I cant open the program manually either. Ill give uninstalling and re-installing a try. The reason I don't want VSync on is because I run most games at 1280x1024: it's my LCD monitor's native resolution. With demanding stuff like HL2 and CS:Source then my PC starts to struggle with AA, AF and VSync. :(

I think I'll put it as On unless application specifies, then force it off in HL2 etc.
 
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lariz

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If you have a firewall such as zonealarm you must give cli.exe access to the internet for the control centre to work. It doesnt actually access the internet afaik, it uses tcp/ip to communicate with the other cli.exe (2 run at the same time).
If youre using the windows firewall get rid of it and get zonealarm.
I edited my other post to include the name of the program btw.
 
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Mikeyh8

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plannigan said:
Regarding Cli.exe error:

Please see this link for information on this error:

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4613.html
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I realised that the cli.exe error was because I hadn't installed that Microsoft .Net Version 1.1 Framework it mentions on the ATi website. Thanks for the link anyway, it'll help someone else who doesn't read instructions :) Downloaded that, and now the Catalyst Control centre works fine.
 
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