Getting horrible screen tearing on every game I play on second monitor

Getting horrible screen tearing on every game I play on second monitor

Should mention I’m on the newest nvidia driver, which might have an effect.

is gsync/vrr enabled or not? also does toggling vsync help?

provide formated output from:
inxi -Fazy
mhwd -l && mhwd -li

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.7-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64
    root=UUID=14c4f948-f7d3-4247-8315-f008a814fb1c rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 info: latte-dock
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: GDM v: 42.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GE75 Raider 10SF v: REV:1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-17E9 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: E17E9IMS.10D date: 11/17/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 42.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 42.1/51.6 Wh (81.6%)
    volts: 12.0 min: 10.9 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
    family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xF0
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
    L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4043 high: 4641 min/max: 800/5000 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 2547 2: 4196 3: 4615
    4: 4419 5: 4600 6: 3932 7: 4600 8: 2124 9: 4430 10: 4622 11: 4641 12: 3794
    bogomips: 62431
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9bc4 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile / Max-Q Refresh]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 515.43.04
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f14
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Acer HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-13:8
    chip-ID: 5986:211c class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 75 s-size: 1304x366mm (51.34x14.41")
    s-diag: 1354mm (53.32")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled pos: primary,right
    model: MSI G271 serial: <filter> built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82
    gamma: 1.2 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9
    modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 pos: primary,left
    model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x176e built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 128
    gamma: 1.2 size: 381x214mm (15x8.43") diag: 437mm (17.2") ratio: 16:9
    modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.43.04 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Corsair VOID ELITE Wireless Gaming Dongle type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1.1.4:14
    chip-ID: 1b1c:0a51 class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.7-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0b1 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-14:12 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 540.2 GiB (38.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: PC SN730 SDBPNTY-512G-1032 size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 11111000 temp: 46.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 140.4 GiB size: 137.13 GiB (97.68%) used: 65.6 GiB (47.8%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 4.9 MiB (1.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 51.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
    temp: 48 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 366 Uptime: 1h 41m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.44 GiB
  used: 4.64 GiB (30.0%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1929 pacman: 1923 lib: 418 flatpak: 6
  Shell: fish v: 3.4.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.15
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:1f14) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
          video-nvidia            2021.12.18               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2021.12.18               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:9bc4) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.12.18               false            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

Don’t know how to enable gsync, and toggling vsync does nothing. Tried with WRATH: Aeon of Ruin which has an option to force vsync and a specified refresh rate which I tried with matching mine (144) to no avail.

try ‘tweaks’ from this link

Oh nice didn’t know that existed thanks.

Setting Force Full Composition Pipeline in sudo nvidia-settings for the second monitor fixed it, thanks!

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