I have an Nvidia 3090 paired with an LG C2 42inch display. Whenever I play a game with VRR enabled, I get really bad flickering where it will intermittently show a black frame. For certain games it will just show a black screen. This happens at both 100Hz and 120Hz when VRR is enabled and occurs in …

Can confirm VRR is fixed with the 550 beta drivers! Out of order frame issue on Wayland also seems to be fixed (I know the full fix won’t be out until explicit sync is adopted across the display stack, but at least it seems to be smooth on my end and isn’t giving me a seizure).

There isn’t. And won’t be until explicit sync lands to Wayland and compositors. [image] [Feature] G-Sync/Freesync under Wayland Session Linux Ok so I tested it (somewhat): NVidia 545 - Xorg - fps matches TV refresh rate, no tearing, no glitching, everything wo…

Your issue is different. I am not just talking about Wayland. VRR in Xorg is also broken. It is also not a glitch or graphical corruption. The entire screen blanks out.

Here’s a video I took showing the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC2EiMQBbcI With Gsync enabled in the Nvidia settings, you can see the screen flickering and fully blanking out when the game dips below a certain framerate. If I stare at the sky it briefly comes back. This happens in every g…

This issue doesn’t seem limited to VRR, I experience it in normal desktop and sometimes my desktop would even flicker on the main monitor. Attaching bug report. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.3 MB) EDIT: Reverted to 535 and issue is gone. EDIT2: spoke too soon same issue present EDIT3: sorry for s…

Can you explain what kscreen settings you’re talking about? Wondering if that’s causing my issues here as well.

Yes, kscreen is additional kde thing to get display data, you can completely reset it by removing the stored settings in - ~/.local/share/kscreen afaik it stores for both xorg and wayland.

I deleted the entire kscreen folder and I am still seeing the VRR issue.

Sigh, it would appear that this bug made it into the stable release. I am still seeing this issue with the 545.29.02 drivers. I have to ask question why Nvidia even bothers doing beta releases if they’re not going to listen to user feedback and just release the broken drivers anyways. I just tested…

Heya, you mention in the OG post you encounter the same thing in Xorg, I’m unable to reproduce such scenario on Xorg(I had some other weird flickers which turned out to be very random and only when all 3 of my monitors are on, but very similar to what you explain here). Is it still happening under b…

I also have this issue on my 3060 since I updated to the latest driver, Video playback felt really sluggish (Frames breing jumbled up, constant flickering, and overall nauseating experience) as well as every single game being run on wayland, and since im on a Lenovo G24-10 monitor that is G-Sync com…

545 drivers have bad flickering and black screen issues when VRR is enabled

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mithras.ftw October 18, 2023, 6:44pm 2

There isn’t. And won’t be until explicit sync lands to Wayland and compositors.

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545 drivers have bad flickering and black screen issues when VRR is enabled

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