Have you tried HD 720-1080 settings on youtube in full or mid screen ?
Tried it 720p full-screen (the one Al777 linked to didn’t have 1080p settings). (Be aware I have 2 different cards that are not GTX 660 Ti, I was just offering an idea that the cards themselves might be bad)
Till now that video started to work for me too… but i seen the artifacts you see on the screenshots (its been taken by vid cam and I took screenshots from there) now I see it still on other video or vlc playing DVD still …
I GIVE UP <<<
I cant find a pattern or workaround, it just happens to be there and then its not … I am clueless
I wait for a comment from NVIDIA people before I RMA … so please Aaron or some one else … give me a hint
just another observation… if i play this version of the video (another link) it shows me the effect.
even its only 360p, play it full screen, go to time 0:50 (if i jump in directly to 1:00 min it wont show)
[url]Armin Van Buuren feat Kerli Walking On Air DJTB 06 20 HD - YouTube
and then i right click to see context menu … the artifacts just gone
when i close context menu, they are here again
UPDATE: above true with 310.40 driver , with 313.26 works
just wanted to drop by to say that i have the same problem
my setup is 660ti (gainward), kubuntu 12.10 64b with: kernel 3.8.1, xorg 11.3, kde 4.10.1 and nvidia drivers 313.26.
i have tearing on the upper side of windows whenever i drag them around, also same tearing with flash, vlc, mplayer all with vdpau in windowed mode. on fullscreen tearing is gone. btw if i disable vdpau i have tearing with all 3 both in windows and fullscreen.
i tried all the combinations of vsync in drivers and kde control panel. i now am on the best combination i found: both vsync on and “unredirect full screen” on (btw i tried disabling vsync selectively but didn’t get any result)
you can find an older thread about the very same issue here:
and-vsync-on/
in that discussion there’s also a link to the kde bugtrack about the same issue
and yes i’d like to hear something from nvidia dev as this thing is getting stale…
Come on, it’s getting ridiculous now…
yes it is … my hopes are with the upcoming 319.xx driver series…
it is annoying to get this expensive card and having the video / flash playback distorted by this effect so often.
nvidia should realize that china just switched to ubuntu flavor and this bug will affect more people in the future. well I guess Linus was right after all.
tried the latest 319.12 beta - no recognizable change
I do not comment anymore, just 1:
One of Nvidia please tell us
- are you aware of the problem?
- can you reproduce
- if so, should we search for an graphics card BIOS upgrade, or is it a failure of the card and we should RMA?
Thanks
As it is now, as far as I understand, there’s no way to get tear-free anything on Linux except through sheer luck.
If you’re having the problem in Windows also then an RMA would be in order I would think. JMO though.
Its very very less effect on windows so I am not sure - still waiting for a comment from one from Nvidia
Not fixed in 319.17 if anyone’s wondering.
Most likely nvidia devs don’t wanna answer cause they don’t know how to fix this issue. Six months passed and nothing is fixed.
see also
[url]Screen/Video tearing 7xx(Kepler), 9xx(Maxwell), 10xx(Pascal) in almost all applications, including desktop - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
for more information on same issue!
pls keep this and the above mentioned thread posted with all your comments … this sucks
we need to help Nvidia be aware of this issue by posting
and save them from IGNORING
somewhere in this forum there was an nvidia dev thread about some gl extension that would fix this issue with the new driver but this didn’t happen.
The extension has to be implemented by the compositing manager. I believe the only compositor that has support at this time is the experimental compiz branch.
I am also having the same issues with the official binary driver. One single horizontal tear in approximately the same spot whenever watching movies, playing games, or even moving windows around using KWin (also tried Gnome-shell, same problems). I am using a NVIDIA GTX 660
I paid a lot of money for this card. We should not have to deal with screen tearing in 2013! If NVIDIA doesn’t even acknowledge that there’s a problem with their hardware/software I will refuse to buy from them in the future and go with AMD.
Btw I also tried the nouveau drivers and it gives me the exact same problem as binary drivers: 1 single tear in the upper half of the screen.
has anyone tried new driver 319.23 to see any changes?
no change with 319.23