Hello, I have short flickering at the top of the screen. I have noticed this issues starting from driver 530.41.3. It is still present in driver 535.43.02. Setting nvidia_drm.modeset=1 doesn’t work. I don’t have this issue with driver 525.116.04. I have a RTX 2060 Super. EDIT: I have found out t…

Glad to know that multiple users have tested with driver 545.23.06 and observed no flickering. I would request others also to try with 545.23.06 and share feedback.

I’m testing driver 535.86.05 and it seems fixed for me. I don’t know why powermizer mode is setted to prefer maximum performance, even if right now I don’t have the command in my i3 config file, but even after I manually change it to Auto (so it changes to Adaptive) it seems fine.

Just wanted to give an update after upgrading to the newly released 535.86.05 drivers. The issue still persists on my GTX 1650 GPU. Albeit the frequency of the flicker has reduced. Nvidia Driver: 535.86.05 GPU: GeForce GTX 1650 OS: Arch Linux Kernel: 6.1.38-2-lts GNOME Shell: 44.3 Windowing Sy…

The new 535.86.05 driver has mitigated the flickering problem, but the bug still exists - the monitor flickers from time to time, though not so often as before. GPU: GeForce RTX 2070 OS: CachyOS Kernel: 6.4.4 Screen resolution: 3840x2160@60Hz

I can report that 535.86.05 did not fix the issue for me nor did it affect it’s frequency despite setting maximum performance in the nvidia settings. GPU: GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile OS: Linux Mint Windowing System: X11 Screen Resolution: 3440x1440 @ 100Hz via thunderbolt to G-Sync external monit…

Similar flicker at the top of the screen here with MSI Gaming X 4060 Ti, Ryzen 5900x, Mint/Cinnamon 20.3, kernel 5.15.0-76, DP-connected HP and driver version 535.86.05. Enabling Nvidia’s fullscreen compositor “fixed” most of it, but not all.

Flicker at the top of the screen with driver 535.86.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1. Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Linux hal 5.19.0-50-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Jul 10 18:24:29 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Monitor LG Electronics LG Ultra HD (DP-0) 3840x2160 at 60 Hz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

With the new driver update, it’s even worse than before on my machine. 535.65.05 on 2080ti. Let’s hope it’s fixed soon.

I am having the same problem with my new 4060 TI, however I am using Windows. Can you please tell me if the update to fix this bug will be released for Linux only or will it affect Windows as well?

The same issue also for me. Driver Version: 535.86.05 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Debian 12 Linux localhost 6.1.0-10-amd64 2 x Screens (2560x1440) Setting Maximum Performance on PowerMizer reduces it a lot but i see 2-3 flickerings / 10 minute now. It’s very annoying. Please release a beta ver…

Flickering at the top of the screen

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amrits July 27, 2023, 3:34pm 32

Thanks for sharing the feedback with latest released driver.
We are working on it actively for the root cause.

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Flickering at the top of the screen

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