After switching from the 515.49.19 vulkan beta to 520.56.06, I started seeing some odd color banding any time a blur effect was applied. It almost looks like it’s 8-bit color instead of 24-bit, but only on certain parts of the screen. It also happened on the SDDM login screen but only when the blu…

I also experience this issue. I have two same 240hz screens, both connected via DP. It only happens on one of them. It appears to get progressively worse the higher refresh rate I set. I have a 3080 with the 520 drivers. This doesn’t happen with nouveau. I’m gonna try to downgrade later today and…

This turned out to be the final straw for me. I saw an AMD 6950xt on sale this morning for $800 and pulled the trigger, will be selling my 3080 Ti to break even. I got tired of all the issues with the nvidia driver… this bug, being stuck at the highest power level for a whole year until a fix came…

Can someone affected by this problem please try opening nvidia-settings, navigating to the page for the affected display device, opening the “Controls” tab and checking the dithering settings? Please also try changing the “depth” setting from Auto to 8bpc and/or changing the Mode setting.

I am back on the 515 series driver, but I will say that I have the Dithering control set to Disabled on all monitors, which also disables the Mode and Depth settings. It doesn’t look like the entire screen is using a low color mode, just certain areas like transparent konsole windows with the blur …

Good for you. I also plan getting a new AMD GPU ASAP. Still gonna have to live a few months with my Nvidia EDIT: perfect, now I cannot answer to aplattner, cause I have reached the reply limit. Here’s the answer: Gonna upgrade back to 520 today and will try. But iirc I’ve tried it with no success. …

Changing the settings doesn’t do much. Even worse on darker colors. My driver version with problem is 520.56.06 Images with the problem Dropbox - Zrzut ekranu z 2022-10-20 17-09-24.png - Simplify your life

The picture from my camera to show what is wrong Dropbox - IMG_20221020_172822.jpg - Simplify your life

I also have this color banding issue with the newest nvidia driver on my Dell Monitor connected via Display Port. Im using Manjaro LTS Kernel 5.15. Here is my Topic from Manjaro Forum, that i created 5 days ago… with additional informations about my system and so on: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/n…

I also changed the differend dither modes, but no success. https://forum.manjaro.org/uploads/default/original/3X/9/3/937268fb73fe05b48a508454b6b9b1fd488c015d.jpeg Im not played with the depth setting yet… i rolled my system back to the old Kernel and hope nvidia will fix this horrible bug soon :(

Color banding and animation issues with 520.56.06

Graphics / Linux Linux

kyngskyngs October 19, 2022, 3:42pm 3

I can confirm that downgrading to 515.76-1 works.

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Color banding and animation issues with 520.56.06

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