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).

It is not necessary to run games in windowed mode. Just toggling gsync off in the Nvidia settings is fine. However, I have noticed that the setting does not persist on reboot. It will show as disabled in Nvidia settings, but VRR will actually be active and the flicker bug will appear. You have to to…

That reboot bug with the Nvidia settings definitely got me, thanks for mentioning.

I was able to repro issue locally, team is currently debugging the issue. Shall keep updated on the same.

Awesome! I am super glad the dev team was able to reproduce this. Hopefully we won’t have to wait until the next major release in order to get a fix. Giving up VRR sucks! Thanks for keeping us updated @amrits

it’s absolutely unbearable, i’m using minecraft as an example here, but this happens in a majority of games like vtmb, talos principle, chiv2. https://i.imgur.com/vg43GaI.mp4 (im using a 170hz display)

@thewisenoob Issue is still being investigated by the team for the effective fix so that there will be no adverse impact with the fix. Really appreciate for being patient, will keep you updated.

Issue has been root caused and fix will be available in future release drivers.

Wonderful news! Thanks for the update!

It’s been root caused and fixed at least three times already. How many times are left until I can use wayland+nvidia?

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

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thewisenoob January 14, 2024, 2:50pm 31

@amrits Any updates on if a fix is coming for this soon?

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