Seeing the same flickering behavior as of today on Arch with 590.48.0.1; earlier (starting sometime around the 18th?) those damaged sections just weren’t being repainted whatsoever, until I forced a redraw by e.g. resizing the window.
$ yay -Qs nvidia
local/cuda 13.1.0-1
NVIDIA's GPU programming toolkit
local/egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.0.rc.r51.gada1c37-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.4-1
NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20251125-2
Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-open 590.48.01-3
NVIDIA open kernel modules
local/nvidia-settings 590.48.01-1
Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 590.48.01-1
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
$ nvidia-smi
Sat Dec 27 14:23:17 2025
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| NVIDIA-SMI 590.48.01 Driver Version: 590.48.01 CUDA Version: 13.1 |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 … Off | 00000000:03:00.0 On | N/A |
| 25% 43C P5 26W / 125W | 932MiB / 6144MiB | 24% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1375 G /usr/lib/Xorg 297MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1567 G picom 40MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1816 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 326MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2040 G /opt/discord/Discord 39MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4660 G …share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4854 G ./steamwebhelper 16MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4888 G …am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper 149MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 247315 G alacritty 8MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+