Yeah. That is an alternative but that's not what I want to resort to when I'm just going from video to video. Oh and it turns out it's every video haha. I've been going through some of my playlists and without fail they all suffer from this. Well here's hoping Google gets their act together and fixes this soon.

EDIT: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/youtube/youtube/suJooCSiH4Y

Looks like they are on it. I'm so glad cause I really couldn't figure out how to explain it lol.

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

Maybe you have noticed this too but some videos are overlaped with the media bar that youtube uses and unless you go into full screen mode they have the bottom 10th essentially hidden behind the player bar. The two examples I have don't actually suffer because of this but it's happened on other videos as well and I was wondering if anyone had a solution for this. Seems like a youtube thing where they could simply program it so that the images fit their player properly without altering the aspect ratio. Oh well just another mistake on googles part.

If you guys know of any add ons to fix this or some other method I'm all ears.

PS Exhibit 3

Annoying. Seriously annoying.

I hate to bump this thread as it seems none of us can find a solution.

My latest update is that it the problem is specifcally monitor related. I recorded some game footage just to see if it would capture the "ripples" I have been describing and to my surprise when playing the video there were no defects. The game itself is not actually at fault. Maybe it's a problem with lcd monitors. I don't know. I've looked around on other boards and found that somebody was having the same issue and like me it was mostly prominent when playing a 2D game. He particularly noted that it was common while emulating SNES/Turbografx games. So yeah don't really know the cause but it's a monitor issue.

Thanks for trying to help though.

Nope. It's not a conflict error. I always check to see if the game is using the proper GPU and Fez in this case is using the Geforce GPU as I selected in the Nvidea control panel. I actually need to use the integrated card sometimes. Some games don't like to play nice with the Geforce for some reason (Max Payne 1/2 come to mind). 

The thing is that I've tried running with both the cards (separately not at once to be clear) and it's the same story.

Ugh. This going to bother me for the rest of the day. Don't even have any time to play this week but I wish I could resolve this issue the next time I play.

Interesting. I pluged the laptop through HDMI to a HDTV and on the TV display the horizontal lines are no longer a problem. So it is very much an issue with the monitor on the laptop. Any ideas guys?

every game or just a few? your display/refresh rate is set correct yes? tried another monitor?darksusperia

Just a few. In fact the last few games I've played were Bioshock Infinite, Spec Ops, Dishonored, Lone Survivor and those were displayed properly.

I should note that I'm playing on my laptop. This is the one I have.

Maybe it could be a refresh rate issue? How would I check for that? I'm not really well versed in tinkering with settings that much.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this topic so if it gets moved or locked down I'll placeit in a more appropriate forum section.

To the problem: For some games I get these horizontal lines on my monitor. It's not screen tearing as I've tried to turn v sync on and off just to check. It's more like these "horizontal waves" to describe it. Just started playing Fez on the PC today and this game suffers from these horizontal lines. It specifically happens when the the screen moves. When the map is still and the characters move it's ok. As soon as the world has to move (left or right, up or down) I get these horizontal lines. It's like they scan from up to down and such.

Another game I remember playing that suffered from the same issue was To The Moon which I was able to not be bothered by because it doesn't require any reflexes.

Any idea what could be the root of the problem?