Flickering at the top of the screen

Graphics / Linux Linux
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This is a Linux forum, these drivers are for Windows.

Please report here instead: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/528356/geforce-grd-53758-feedback-thread-released-101023/

This known issue looks like yours:

[RTX 4060 Ti] Display may randomly flicker with a black bar on the top of the screen when using desktop apps [4239893]

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More than 5 months this bug is in production, and very annoying. Any updates? Any simple stable work-arounds?

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I’ve heard that forcing a 60Hz refresh rate can help but yeah, the way things are, that’s quite inexcusable.

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I can speak only for myself. As I wrote, putting GPU in “Maximum Performance” mode fixes it for me completely (i7-4790, 1660Ti, PCIe gen3).

Of course, setting this on a much more powerful GPU is probably not desired, or when NB battery life is concerned I guess…

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I don’t use my desktop PC often for anything else than gaming, but since my last post on the 6th I’ve been using the workaround of putting the PC in suspend on the login screen just before login for the first time, then waiting for a minute or so, waking the PC and allowed it to wake up the screen also and then login-in. I haven’t seen a single flicker since and my PowerMizer mode is on Auto and GSync on.

I have no idea why it works but it’s a reliable workaround for me. I used to have a lot of flickers.

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I have 60 Hz monitor, I have no options, how would I force it.

I don’t want to turn on “Max Performance” to disrupt my silent PC, especially if it doesn’t help by 100%.

And I’ve tried sleep/wake up today — haven’t helped.

So, I found zero work-arounds for myself, and see no activity from NVIDIA. Probably, I should not buy any cards from them in the future.

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if they could at least provide the old series driver that builds with the newer kernel…

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Yep, exactly. I’ve ignored updates for the Linux kernel with NVIDIA drivers for months, but now with the GNOME 45 my system has broken and I’m tired to find out what packages are problematic. Updated everything, it works, but this flicking!

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The latest beta driver, version 545.23.06, that has just been released might have fixed the flickering issue:

Fixed a bug that could cause monitors to flicker when the performance state changes on Turing GPUs.

Please check.

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It started flickering on Pascal GPUs now.
On any other driver I didn’t have this
Now I have this flickering all over the place while gaming with beta drivers.
Arch with KDE on latest beta drivers

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Hehe! You’ve gotta be fscking kidding. :D

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I’m using driver 525.125.06 together with kernel 6.5.7 on Arch Linux.
I installed it using Nvidia-All:

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I migrated to the 545 and apparently the problem was fixed. Normally the flickers would already occur as soon as I logged into the PC, but I’ve been using it for 1 hour and no sign of flickers.

Driver: 545.23.06
GPU: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
OS: Arch Linux
Kernel: 6.5.7-arch1-1
Screen resolution: 3840x2160@60Hz

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I was affected by the flickering at the top of the screen while using driver version: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.113.01.run
After upgrading to version NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-545.23.06.run as suggested in previous comments, the flickering was gone.
Debian 12, kernel 6.1.0-13-amd64
NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER]

I am posting this just to share that driver 545.23.06 fixed the problem for me.

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I’ve upgraded to 545.23.06 and the flickers have disappeared. Finally!

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64 
Kernel: 6.2.0-34-generic 
Resolution: 3440x1440 
WM: i3 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 3.600GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 
Memory: 4412MiB / 32010MiB
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545.23.06 seems to have done the trick! I can’t be totally sure given the transient nature of the problem, but I’ve been running for several hours now and haven’t noticed a single flicker.

System:
  Kernel: 6.5.7-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: i3 v: 4.22
    Distro: Arch Linux
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7 X 995 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 1.5 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2161 min/max: 1596/3592 cores: 1: 1596 2: 1596 3: 1596
    4: 3592 5: 2394 6: 3592 7: 1596 8: 1596 9: 1596 10: 1596 11: 3592 12: 1596
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] driver: nvidia v: 545.23.06
  Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 2560x1600~60Hz 2: 1440x900~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.23.06
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.264 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib
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Could you please share nvidia bug report and video highlight flickering issue with driver 545.23.06

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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.

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I do not observe flickering anymore with driver 545.23.06.

GPU: GeForce RTX 2070
OS: CachyOS
Kernel: 6.5.7
Screen resolution: 3840x2160@60Hz

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This video show the flickering

There are more issues as described here.

It might be due to missing xwayland explicit sync, but it is a regression from current 535 series