

You can use one of the methods below to set the Skyrim FPS the same as or lower than the monitor’s refresh rate. After you get your monitor’s refresh rate, read on to learn how to cap the FPS. If you’re not sure how to get that information, you can refer to these steps:ġ) Right-click on desktop and select Display settings.ģ) Under Related settings, click on Display adapter properties.Ĥ) Select the Monitor tab, then in the Monitor Settings section, you can check the screen refresh rate your monitor is using. So to fix the screen tearing issue in Skyrim, you just need to cap the Skyrim FPS down to the monitor’s refresh rate or lower.īefore you cap the Skyrim FPS, you need to figure out what refresh rate your monitor is currently using. The screen tearing issue occurs when the Skyrim FPS is higher than your monitor’s refresh rate. If the screen tearing issue only occurs to Skyrim, read on to follow the guide below. If it also occurs to other games, you can use the solutions in Easily Fix Screen Tearing Issues in Games. You can fix the screen tearing issue with the guide mentioned below.įirst, check if the screen is also tearing when you’re playing other games. :) Maybe the changes in those files doesn't work with all ATI cards? His is pretty old as he's still waiting on getting his "real" card back.When you’re playing Skyrim, you run into the screen tearing issue, which ruins your game experience. He touched nothing at all with the ATI install before trying to boot Skyrim 30+ times, rebooting computer, running registry cleaners etc etc, so it was 99.9% sure that.


Just want to try to sort this out in case it happens to somebody else ) In other words, is there any direct evidence that Tray Tools was the culprit and not something related to a driver installation issue? Did your brother uninstall anything ATI-related after installing Tray Tools and before confirming Skyrim would boot? Hmmm, still not convinced what caused this. After doing that and reinstalling, everything works, so it turns out it was indeed the tray tools that messed up things somehow :) Just glad its over now though and that we never got around to uninstalling all mods etc! Finally got it working after we noticed you had linked your uninstall/install ATI drivers reference to the wiki and ran that batch-file in safe mode.
