Hi! The latest stable Nvidia driver 535.54.03 introduces screen tearing to games running with V-sync in a GNOME Wayland session. Tested a few games, some running through DXVK, some through VKD3D-Proton. Doesn’t make a difference. Desktop is unaffected, but Vulkan apps are. This issue isn’t present …

Unfortunately doesn’t change a thing for me. Still tearing on Wayland. Also the latest 535.86.05 has the same problem.

wayland already does “mailbox” vsync that currently cannot be disabled, with that being said on KDE Plasma which I use it also has additional forced vsync which will be fixed in 545 … tearing should not occur.

Problem is still occurring on 535.98 driver. There is a clearly visible horizontal tearing when playing on Wayland. It’s not happening on X11.

I’m also having this issue on GNOME 44 in Fedora 38. It doesn’t happen on KDE Plasma, so it seems to be an issue with the nvidia drivers and GNOME / Mutter.

I experience it on KDE Plasma Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.4.10-x64v2-xanmod1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor Memory: 31,2 GiB of RAM …

Same. Horizontal “tearing” (I’d say it’s not the usual tearing, but a more “glitchy” one) on the upper part of the screen while gaming on wayland+nvidia+kde. Arch. Issue wasn’t present on 530. More noticeable with lower frame rates, but always noticeable even at 144hz.

same, pretty noticable in overwatch 2 although it only happens in the top left corner of my screen.

Same issue. I get constant screen tearing in the top 10% of my screen on almost any game irrespective of settings in the game or kde. Running ublue kinoite

535.54.03 Screen tearing while gaming on Wayland session

Graphics / Linux Linux

JKrych August 27, 2023, 5:57pm 16

Issue is still present on the 535.104.05 drivers. Running Wayland and GNOME 44.4.

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535.54.03 Screen tearing while gaming on Wayland session

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