Hi guys,
I ran Manjaro for over a year and had screen tearing which I was not really able to get rid of. About 3 month ago I started testing out other distribution but they also had the same problem. I even installed Windows to check it there, to make sure its not my graphic card which is defective. There everything was fine.
Yesterday I came crawling back to Manajaro as I like it the most and all other distributions had the same issue. But after the installation yesterday it was gone. No tearing everything was fine. A few hours back my Desktop froze somehow and I killed it with “CTRL+ALT+Backspace” and since then the tearing is back again. I tried everything again but it did not work the tearing is back and it is here to stay.
So I was wondering if the same issues occur with AMD or if it would be worth to switch?
After every reboot, you need to enable Force Full Composition Pipeline in Nvidia Settings panel (proprietary driver). Tearing gone immediately. Until next reboot, I wrote a script for that when I was using 1080Ti. This works on every distro. You could have enabled it months ago I had same situation, I was stuck with tearing for long time, I didn’t know any better.
I sold 1080Ti two months ago. Radeon 5700XT has no tearing at all, out of the box works perfectly.
Hi omano,
Thanks for the link.
I never tried the compositer setting. Unfortunately it also did not do the trick for me.
I just ordered an AMD 580. I hope that will fix the issue for me.
Hi onano,
Thanks for the hint. unfortunately that does not work for me. In the past I went through so many sites and information. I tried everything noted in the arch NVIDIA/Troubleshooting Guide.
Why can´t I post the link to the guide?
The AMD Card should arrive today, I hope that will fix the issue once and for all.
I will report back as soon as I was able to verify it.
Hello everyone,
I installed my new AMD RX580. For some reason, I had a problem, that it did not recognize the resolution 3840x2160 60Hz. But since I created that mode with xrandr everything is running smoothly. I do not have any tearing anymore and it even feels smother.
So far I am very happy with the result.
To apply the changes permanently I just added the following script to the KDE Autostart
You can now either use the whole string (Modeline …) and update your xorg.conf or apply it with xrandr temporarily.
As I did not want to invest the time to find out, which Screen in the xorg config corresponds to which of my physical screens I just took the commands and let them apply by autostart.
You can also copy nvidia.conf from /etc/X11/mhwd.d and make a new file in /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d called 95-mhwd.conf, paste the contents of nvidia.conf into your new file (95-mhwd.conf) and add either Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceCompositionPipeline = On }" or Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On }" depending on what works the best for you (You place that in Section “Device”). That should make the Force Full Composition Pipeline automatically be turned on at startup (or Force Composition Pipeline if you chose that).
No, I don’t want the script. I want to know how to configure manjaro xfce to start a certain script on bootup. (As it will automate many repeating tasks on boot increasing my productivity)
I had same situation, I was stuck with tearing for long time, I didn’t know any better.
Enjoy your tear free experience, and no need to install proprietary drivers ever again. 