GTX 760 - Adaptive V-Sync screen tearing

So I just recently built my first gaming pc a couple months ago, and a problem that I have been having since its creation is screen tearing.  Adaptive V-Sync was something that really pushed me over to the Nvidia side, but it does not appear to be working the way it was intended.  For the most part it is not a huge deal, I can enable regular V-Sync for most games (I game at 1080p) and get stable 60 FPS, but for a few games like Splinter Cell: Blacklist I can enable TXAA 4x which looks really nice, but brings me to a stable 30 with regular V-Sync rather than 60.  I am mostly wondering if I am doing something wrong when I enable Adaptive V-Sync in the Nvidia control panel (I have tried both globally and application-specific) because my screen seems to tear quite a bit when I have it running still, almost as if I didn't have any V-Sync on at all.  Am I doing something wrong?

TL;DR: My Adaptive V-Sync is still tearing the screen no matter how I try to enable it, am I doing something wrong?

You've got triple buffering turned on, right?

I go with frame rate limiting and never see a single screen tear on games that can render that fast. With Nvidia Inspector (Google it), I set the frame rate limit in Nvidia's drivers to five frames below my monitor's refresh rate and that eliminates screen tears. (Note that setting the frame limit to the same as your refresh rate will still give you tearing.)

So I just recently built my first gaming pc a couple months ago, and a problem that I have been having since its creation is screen tearing.  Adaptive V-Sync was something that really pushed me over to the Nvidia side, but it does not appear to be working the way it was intended.  For the most part it is not a huge deal, I can enable regular V-Sync for most games (I game at 1080p) and get stable 60 FPS, but for a few games like Splinter Cell: Blacklist I can enable TXAA 4x which looks really nice, but brings me to a stable 30 with regular V-Sync rather than 60.  I am mostly wondering if I am doing something wrong when I enable Adaptive V-Sync in the Nvidia control panel (I have tried both globally and application-specific) because my screen seems to tear quite a bit when I have it running still, almost as if I didn't have any V-Sync on at all.  Am I doing something wrong?

TL;DR: My Adaptive V-Sync is still tearing the screen no matter how I try to enable it, am I doing something wrong?

Schreek

You went with Nvidia because of V-Sync? Most people complain about V-Sync and always turn it off. The_Animator420