Next gen the death of screen tearing?

This gen my absolute pet hate was screen tearing in games! I wonder with all of these announcements of "Game XYZ runs at 1080p 60fps" will we still see games with screen tearing in order to maintain a steady 60fps.

No one seems to be really talking about it.

I mean sure 60fps but not at the cost of screen tearing, it totally ruins immersion!

So will games that run at 60fps have v-sync enabled - thoughts?

I should think so! I won't be paying £400 or whatever for a console that still has some of the problems the previous one has!

Did the 360 and PS3 run games at 60 fps when they first released? In that case I guess the answer is that every gen the games run flawlessly for a few years then start tearing and freezing when the machines get ancient and the tech moves forward.

I hope so i remember when i got darksiders 1 and it had horrible screen tearing problems on the 360 made it hard to play

@jouseldelka: I'm pretty sure I remember Perfect Dark Zero having screen tearing.

No because it is a bandwidth issue. With more powerful hardware they can increase the amount of data sent through the rendering pipeline but the bandwidth limitations still exist just at a higher value.

There will always be a developer who would rather enable an extra shader effect at the expense of a locked frame-rate.

Frame tearing is one of the reasons why the PC is my gaming platform of choice. I, the user, choose what resolution I play at, the frame-rate, or graphical extras like v-sync or anti-aliasing.

I would hope so

@cheesebob said:

n1

Negative, someone is always going to do a restricted 30hz render without vsync in order to drop into the 20's. Consoles, your home for screen tearing since 2000!

Screen tearing is part of the experience for me, i wouldn't have it any other way.

I can just imagine a number of years down the line, things like screen tearing and super jagged aliasing might be included "authenticity" options for re-releases of "retro" games the same way that a lot of arcade ports have settings for scan lines and CRT image distortion.

Screen-tearing is what sent me back to PC gaming too.