On driver 550.40.07 (this also happens on 545) anything using OpenGL through xwayland flickers like crazy. VRR on and off. This does not happen if the zink driver is forced or if the app is native wayland. Currently using an rtx 3080 on Arch linux. Examples of games affected by this bug are Minecraft, Terraria and factorio.
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same here.
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same here, usisng nvidia-opens 550.54.14, gnome 45
when start chromium normally, the url search candidate box is flickering, unless force chromium use wayland be set flags --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland, but it will break IME so I have to use xwayland chromium
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Same here. All electron apps flicker. In vs code is quite annoying.
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Just to reiterate here, I also have this issue with the newest driver (550.67). Tested with the new COSMIC desktop and (current git master) Hyprland.
It looks like it swaps between a previous and the current framebuffer (at the frame rate).
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Confirming this; VS Code is barely usable on Wayland, plexamp is usable sometimes, Element is unusable, etc.
RTX 3070 on openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240423, driver v. 550.67-20.1
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Far as I know, this is related to the whole explicit sync vs implicit sync debacle with wayland and nvidia’s lack of dealing with either effectively. I just ran into this with arch moving to kde plasma6 and attempting wayland, but met with flickering that would give epileptics a fit.
Supposedly the gpu 555 drivers due may 15th per nvidia folks finally address adding explicit sync functionality that wayland and desktop compositors can finally use, but until then remains a mess. Until then, xorg it is still after 3-4 decades…
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Please prioritize this or allow the community to work on it.
Wayland + Nvidia works pretty well when the app is running natively in Wayland, but we need Xwayland to work properly for the transition to be successful. Almost every game and many apps don’t support Wayland yet.
I’m also running Arch Linux with the latest supported driver (550.76-3) and KDE 6.
Chiming in with another me too. KDE recently switched to Wayland by default and nearly everything is flickering and unusable. It’s absurd that this is the state of nvidia’s support for modern standards. I expect more from this company, but the situation on Linux has just about made me an ATI customer.
Nvidia should be working to fix this out-of-band with an emergency patch. Where is the urgency?
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Completely agree. Thankfully for you you’ve only started experiencing this recently. Others including myself have been riddled with these issues since the first nvidia 545 release back in November AFAIK.
Fingers crossed for the potential 555 beta release on May 15th!!
Source: Implement Explicit Sync by amshafer · Pull Request #104 · NVIDIA/egl-wayland · GitHub
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Driver Version: 575.64.03 CUDA Version: 12.9
Problem still there…
google-chrome --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
Google chrome flashing like scene on German rave, on tab changing…