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 …

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 …

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

Issue is still present on the 535.104.05 drivers. Running Wayland and KDE PLASMA 5.27.7

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 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

Re-tested on 535.113.01, issue still present on Wayland and GNOME 44.5. Really hoping this gets fixed on the 545 branch.

@amrits Heya is there any ETA of when the broken Vsync in 535 will be fixed, this issue didn’t occur in 525 and 530 drivers, in addition it affects both wayland and xorg.

535.54.03 Screen tearing while gaming on Wayland session

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hmpfkafka September 14, 2023, 5:47am 19

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

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