Hello all,

I have noticed this weird issue i have in my rendering where pixels are being misaligned when I'm drawing things that are moving around, like screen tearing or something even though i have setDoubleBuffered(true) on all my components. In fact, I don't see any difference between setDoubleBuffered(true) and setDoubleBuffered(false) so i feel like it could be something else.

It is extremely crazy when i unlock my logic and rendering loops. As a test I tried drawing a rectangle moving back and forth at around 9000 FPS and it looks like a noodle flopping around and it looked like this (tried to screencap but the screencap shows nothing unusual even though i see the misalignements):

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It goes for up, left, and down as well.

Can anyone explain to me what's going on? It is noticeable even at 60 FPS however it only tears like once every 1/3 of a second

I do believe this is what vsync is supposed to solve.

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This is off topic but: be careful about giving out Dropbox links. Once you're over bandwidth limit you get banned. First time it's 1 day ban, then 7 days, then probably longer (haven't experienced that yet). Not to mention there's no transparency on bandwidth usage.

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like screen tearing or something even though i have setDoubleBuffered(true)

Vsync causes the renderer to wait for a signal from the display before swapping buffers so that the buffer swaps are synchronized with the monitor refresh.

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Thanks for the help guys. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is any way to mitigate tearing in Java2D. Guess I'll live with it for now and maybe look into some libraries later to deal with this issue.