Hello there, I am new to this series and was very excited to see the single-player demo out today. Though once I installed it and booted it up, the game has a tearing issue with the graphics, mainly it is the top half of my CRT monitor but it does jump a bit. I don't get this issue with any of my current games, just this demo.

I'm running on:

AMD Athlon 2500+ (1.83GHz)
768mb DDR RAM
Geforce 5700 LE 256mb

I have the latest drivers for my chipset, video card and Direct X so it couldn't be that.

I appreciate any help I get, thanks in advance!

Try to enable or disable VSync option in "Graphics options"

Enabling it should remove the vertical tear.

Enabling V-Sync WILL fix that problem. V-Sync synchronises the games frame rate with your monitors refresh rate, though the downside to this is that if your frame rate cannot match the refresh rate of your monitor, your framerate will halve.

Hopefully they've added Triple Buffering support (this eliminates the halving framerate issue), but I'm not too hopeful

Every game can suffer from this issue, it's just a matter of what your frame rate is, your refresh rate, and the type of game as to how likely you are to notice.

I have also had this tearing problem as well and it has been refractory to changing V-sync. I am running an Athalon 64 2.2 Ghz and a geforce 5900.

HOWEVER I have found a fix for me: for some reason if I re-start the computer fresh, and then play MA or Domination demo, there is no graphical tearing.

BX