A previous frame may appear again some time later on the screen, 20231129_234334 on Vimeo This was mentioned in 477741 – kwin sometimes renders a previous frame on wayland . KDE people said “apparently this is an issue with the NVIDIA driver…”, so I’m here. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (2.0 MB)

[image] [Feature] G-Sync/Freesync under Wayland Session Linux VRR seems to behave in single monitor mode on my machine with driver version 545.29.02. However, games are a different story as they and many other wayland applications exhibit out of order frames / black flicke…

It seems that it has nothing to do with VRR. All of my monitor neither supports G-Sync nor Freesync, but same situation.

You might be affected by the famous Glamour bug as described here: xwayland glamor renders incorrectly on nvidia (#1317) · Issues · xorg / xserver · GitLab does this sound more like your issue? While the glamour bug should only affect appsrunning within XWayland. Which sounds not exactly like the i…

This is indeed different from a Xwayland misrendering. This happens in Wayland-native applications.

I also have this problem with native Wayland applications under Sway with a multi-monitor setup.

This is an issue with 545 series, the thread for that is here [image] 545.29.02 ghosting/artifacting/stuttering on fullscreen when below monitor framerate Linux Hi! I have this issue on Wayland when fullscreen gaming (wayland) and the game’s fps are below the screen refre…

Nvidia card sometimes renders a previous frame on wayland

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VulkanGuy December 3, 2023, 12:41am 2

Your issue.

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Nvidia card sometimes renders a previous frame on wayland

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