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)

Nvidia card sometimes renders a previous frame on wayland

VulkanGuy December 3, 2023, 12:41am 2

Your issue.

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