I've looked around the internet for this one but haven't been able to find a consistent answer. I decided to go back and replay SC2 starting with wings of liberty. With my old GPU I never had any issues, but with my 970 I'm getting all kinds of screen tearing and choppiness while scrolling around the map. My FPS ranges from 70-250. However, when I limit my fps to 60 (my monitor is 60 hz) screen tearing seems worse. There is a menu option for "60 hz sync" but it doesn't seem to do anything at all.
1) An earlier driver might be worth a shot, though even if that works I'm not going to run an outdated driver just for one game. 2) Reducing settings doesn't have any effect and I wouldn't expect it to considering the fps I'm getting.
I had the same issue when I upgraded from my 770 to my 970 when it came out. I uninstalled all of the Nvidia drivers and Experience, then did a clean install. Don't install the 3d vision or hd audio, just the driver, physx, and experience if you want it. That worked for me.
I have had problems with the Hd audio driver in WoW causing stuttering, it got worse the higher I set the sound settings.
No, not about the FPS, its to see if the issue still happens on low settings, and if it is game specific. Does this happen in other games? Might just need a file verify (not sure if battle.net has that)/reinstall.
I saw an article on Gaming on Linux on this very subject here All kinds of useful info like,"The problem with ForceFullCompositionPipeline is when you play a game that has a fullscreen mode that changes your desktop resolution, instead of stretching a fullscreen window, is that ForceFullCompositionPipeline is reset back to disabled." There are scripts for 4k and 1080 Don;t know if it works heck I don't even understand some of it means but thought I would pass it on:)