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To be fair the IntelHD graphics have been steadily improving over time and the issue comes from when you are using them your CPU is doing more work so calling them shit is a little extreme but if you paid for a laptop with a discrete card you paid a pretty penny of the cost to get said card and then to switch it off and not use it is insane at least in my opinion. Have you looked at @lordmonkus's tutorial on how to tweak your video settings in RA they may help you out considerably for instance do you have hardGPU sync enabled that is one of his 1st recommendations to make.

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@Clutz450 I won't lie, I doubted your issue but this is a thing. There is a very informative and pissed off thread that has been running for a long time that I've linked below. In a nutshell, here is what I can ascertain. 

A. This seems to affect certain mobile chipsets and is predominantly affecting older games (Counter Strike, HL2, Day of Defeat were all named essentially, if the game is DX9 and even 10 t's likely to happen)

B. There are a lot of clever people in that thread that have developed workarounds and one has even built some sotware and has a Github that eliminates the issue

C. This issue has been around since 2011

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/903422/geforce-mobile-gpus/diagonal-screen-tearing-issues-on-gtx-860m-870m-960m-965m-970m-980m-/25/

 

Personally, Id likely keep my machine and run it to HDMI to an external monitor anyway so it would not be a big deal. For you though, take it back if you want to and get a chipset that's higher than the 980m perhaps. At either rate, read through that thread and lets see what options you have.

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@DOS76 it's a figure of speech. Allow me reiterate in a less offensive way. If you were to compare the performance of his integrated HD chipset to his own Nvidia card, or for likely any card in the past 5 years, it would be totally and utterly destroyed in all aspects. The card works great for low gpu usage emulation that rely more on CPU, but the moment he were to put a game that were even remotely modern, he will be sorely disappointed. To give you a comparison here is one of the newer Intel Iris HD gens compared to his Nvidia chipset.

I don't even believe that he has that particular Intel chipset in his machine so to even at a best case scenario for Intel, his Nvidia card would eat it for lunch. The Intel cards are not meant to compete with dedicated GPU so I doubt my previous statement offended Intel. Those Intel chips are to save energy and allow the Intel card to run when you are just browsing etc. They are great for a low cost solution to someone not looking for high end gaming who doesn't need CUDA or Phsyx etc. So as a solution to this problem, it's not a solution at all and we can agree it seems on that much at least.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-970M-vs-Intel-Iris-Pro-HD-6100-Mobile/m17319vsm25925

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Thanks for finally believing me.  Lol.  But yeah, I had already read through that post and I think I had even linked to it in one of my earlier posts.  Bottom line for me though is there is a known fault on those graphics cards that has been around for years and it doesn't look like it will be fixed any time soon.  So tomorrow I am going to return this laptop and get this Asus laptop instead.  http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-17-3-laptop-intel-core-i7-12gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-1tb-hard-drive-128gb-solid-state-drive-black-anodized-aluminum/5580042.p?skuId=5580042  It'd got a better graphics card and after a quick search of that model I haven't seen any mention of diagonal tearing or any other issues.  Plus this laptop has g-sync and I've been seeing that name around in some of the posts I've read and how amazing it is.  So hopefully this will be the last laptop I buy and I can finally start setting up and personalizing my retroarch/launchbox setup.

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And like I said waaayy back in the post thread it WAS on sale for 829.00 $ last week too at best buy ! 

  I just bought my asus r.o.g. last week and I love the thing ran every thing great so far  rise of the tomb raider , mad max, half life ,  and ps2   wii, gamecube ! 

 Cus I bought mine for 1199.00$ Friday and they went on sale Sunday so went back to the store for my credit and then got the asus monitor ! 

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1 hour ago, Ptondo said:

And like I said waaayy back in the post thread it WAS on sale for 829.00 $ last week too at best buy ! 

  I just bought my asus r.o.g. last week and I love the thing ran every thing great so far  rise of the tomb raider , mad max, half life ,  and ps2   wii, gamecube ! 

 Cus I bought mine for 1199.00$ Friday and they went on sale Sunday so went back to the store for my credit and then got the asus monitor ! 

That's the one I bought after I returned the Dell XPS.  And it does seem like a great laptop.  But that diagonal screen tearing I'm seeing in RetroArch just bothers me too much.  But I really do like the laptop which is why I'm going to trade it in for another Asus Rog.  Just a better one. 

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