Why have I never experienced stutter or tearing on my CRT?

[CathodeSwagTube]

I've been using an UXGA CRT at 85hz for 10 years now, with many different GPUs, and I have at several occasions throughout these years had bad FPS to the point where I can't play a game (dropping under 30-40). However, I can't ever remember experiencing problems with tearing or stuttering. Do CRTs not get these? Why?

Shouldn't 85hz with 60fps result in frames being displayed twice, and stutter?

Perhaps stutter just looks different on a CRT?

[spacediver]

Load this up on chrome. Do you see image doubling?

http://www.testufo.com/#test=framerates-text

[Q83Ia7ta]

vsync

[CathodeSwagTube]

Load this up on chrome. Do you see image doubling?

http://www.testufo.com/#test=framerates-text

I see stuttering in both texts. I've never noticed it in games though, unless they drop to under 30fps maybe.

(However I have Aero turned off and like 80 tabs open in chrome that I can't currently close, so that test might not work. The bars in the smooth demo are tearing up a bit for me http://www.testufo.com/#test=stutter&de ... 12&pps=720)

I generally have vsync off, but it varies. Over the last ten years I've never seen vsync make any difference in any game, so I've just started to ignore whether it's on or off.

[sharknice]

Stuttering and tearing are harder to notice if you haven't experienced stutter and tear free gaming.

I didn't notice it much until I used gsync, I notice stutters and tears immediately if I don't use gsync now.

[Q83Ia7ta]

I didn't notice any tearing playing 144Hz with stable 250fps until I played 200Hz for a while and went back to 144Hz.

[CathodeSwagTube]

Perhaps I just don't notice stutters that are less than 3 duplicate frames on 85hz. That'd explain why I never see it while my fps is over 40.

What's the acutal difference between stutters and micro-stutters though? Just the amount of duplicate frames?