XNA weird terrain tearing - c#

Let me post the images first...
Solid shot where tearing occurs
And wireframe shot of that place
I am mostly using mostly using Riemers tutorial while the render code is..
Main render
public void Render()
{
device.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue);
RasterizerState rs = new RasterizerState();
rs.CullMode = cullmode;
rs.FillMode = fillmode;
device.RasterizerState = rs;
effect.Parameters["xView"].SetValue(camera.ViewMatrix);
effect.Parameters["xProjection"].SetValue(camera.ProjectionMatrix);
effect.Parameters["xWorld"].SetValue(Matrix.Identity);
effect.Parameters["xEnableLighting"].SetValue(true);
effect.Parameters["xLightDirection"].SetValue(lightDirection);
effect.Parameters["xAmbient"].SetValue(0.5f);
globals.game.terrain.Render();
globals.game.spriteBatch.Begin();
globals.console.Render();
globals.game.spriteBatch.End();
}
Terrain.Render()
public void Render()
{
globals.game.graphics.effect.CurrentTechnique = globals.game.graphics.effect.Techniques["Colored"];
globals.game.graphics.effect.Parameters["xWorld"].SetValue(worldMatrix);
foreach (EffectPass pass in globals.game.graphics.effect.CurrentTechnique.Passes)
{
pass.Apply();
globals.game.graphics.device.Indices = indexBuffer;
globals.game.graphics.device.SetVertexBuffer(vertexBuffer);
globals.game.graphics.device.DrawIndexedPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, vertices.Length, 0, indices.Length / 3);
}
}
I was stuck with this problem for pretty long now (not knowing if it is caused by my coding skills, xna or some g-card configuration...) so i wonder if someone have some ideas what might cause it?

Temporarily comment out the spritebatch begin, draw, & end code and see if that makes a difference. It may or may not depending on the vertex order in the buffer.
If it does help, your solution can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2010/06/18/spritebatch-and-renderstates-in-xna-game-studio-4-0.aspx

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDRmIY6-8Z4
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Now I've never used DirectX myself, but I suppose you'll need to use HLSL instead of GLSL (which should be fairly similar though). The idea is that you'll have to load your "screenshot" into a texture buffer, as an input to your fragment shader (pixel shader). Fragment shaders are deceptively easy to understand, it's just a piece of code (written in GLSL or HLSL) looking very much like a subset of C to which a few math functions has been added (vector and matrices manipulation mostly) executed for every single pixel to be rendered.
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The fix so far has been to use 1 giant vertex buffer. I don't like it, but that's all that seems to work.

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