Tearing on fullscreen

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Hey there,
Could someone test this project in fullscreen and say me if you get any tearing? Here, when on window mode, everything is fine but if I set to fullscreen I get a LOT of tearing.

If you do get tearing, is this a bug or I messed up with something in the project?

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Vsync is most likely off. You see this option appears in a lot of games. For a trade of a little performance, it makes sure that your video processor and your monitor keep up with each other. Currently Godot doesn't have a Vsync option to enable. So look into your computer's graphics settings and see if you can enable vysnc yourself. If not, there isn't much you can do about this.

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Currently Godot doesn't have a way of enabling vysnc by itself.

That's not true, V-Sync is enabled by default in the Project Settings. Moreover, most graphics drivers enforce the use of V-Sync these days, so you actually need to jump through hoops to disable V-Sync (which isn't a good thing if your game requires low input lag, as V-Sync adds a significant amount of input lag).

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Sorry. What I meant to say was

Currently Godot doesn't have a Vsync option to enable.

But if/since it's true that Godot has vysnc on by default, then what else could be causing the screen tearing? A graphics driver bug?

@fpicoral, have you tried seeing if you can update the graphics driver you're using?

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