Screen tearing AMD

For the past few weeks i have been experiencing consistent aggressive screen tearing on Manjaro. Not just in games, but while doing literally anything on the desktop.

I tested the live USB i used to install my system, and it ran flawlessly without any tearing. I copied the same display compositor settings to my main setup, but that solved nothing. I try reinstalling the drivers with “pacman -R xf86-video-amdgpu” and “pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu” but that didn’t fix anything either.

Any ideas?

Inxi output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.14.10-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64
  root=UUID=4908f554-a2dc-4ede-950e-4d6fad2739ea rw quiet apparmor=1
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: i3 4.19.1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING v: Rev 1.xx
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4602 date: 08/17/2021
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard
  serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
  status: Full
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.55 GiB used: 2.84 GiB (18.3%)
  Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB note: check slots: 4 EC: None
  max-module-size: 32 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 4 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s type: DDR4
  detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
  total: 64 bits manufacturer: Crucial Technology part-no: BLS4G4D240FSB.8FBD2
  serial: <filter>
  Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 4 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s type: DDR4
  detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
  total: 64 bits manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 serial: N/A
  Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 4 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s type: DDR4
  detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
  total: 64 bits manufacturer: Crucial Technology part-no: BLS4G4D240FSB.8FBD2
  serial: <filter>
  Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 4 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s type: DDR4
  detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
  total: 64 bits manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 serial: N/A
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 socket: AM4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
  arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0
  microcode: 8701021 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB bogomips: 86274
  Speed: 2661 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz base/boost: 3600/4200 boost: enabled
  volts: 1.1 V ext-clock: 100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2661 2: 2086 3: 2196
  4: 2202 5: 2152 6: 2195 7: 2199 8: 2195 9: 3504 10: 2053 11: 2103 12: 2196
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
  pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es
  sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
  stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  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 and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
  conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
  vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f
  class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  bus-ID: 3-2:2 chip-ID: 0c45:636b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: ati,modesetting
  unloaded: radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1354x381mm (53.3x15.0")
  s-diag: 1407mm (55.4")
  Monitor-1: DP-3 res: 5120x1440 hz: 120 dpi: 109
  size: 1190x340mm (46.9x13.4") diag: 1238mm (48.7")
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.42.0 5.14.10-1-MANJARO
  LLVM 12.0.1)
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
  bus-ID: 0a:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  bus-ID: 3-2:2 chip-ID: 0c45:636b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.10-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel
  port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: ASUSTek Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
  v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-6:4 chip-ID: 0b05:17cb class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.15 TiB used: 604.29 GiB (51.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB
  family: based SSDs size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
  logical: 512 B sata: 3.2 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter>
  rev: 4B6Q temp: 21 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 88d 8h cycles: 519
  written: 595.49 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 1TB
  family: based SSDs size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
  logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter>
  rev: 2B6Q temp: 20 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 288d 13h cycles: 1790
  written: 8.91 TiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: TransMemory
  size: 14.44 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
  serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 232.59 GiB size: 227.88 GiB (97.98%)
  used: 62.2 GiB (27.3%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
  maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: 4908f554-a2dc-4ede-950e-4d6fad2739ea
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
  used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  label: NO_LABEL uuid: EFD0-D34D
  ID-3: /run/media/joep/games raw-size: 839.34 GiB size: 825.09 GiB (98.30%)
  used: 542.09 GiB (65.7%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb1
  maj-min: 8:17 label: 2 - Games uuid: ce65ad4f-499c-4e56-bcba-9f4c6d881884
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 3.23 GiB fs: iso9660
  ID-2: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI
  uuid: FC82-4342
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: SHARKOON [Mediatrack Edge Mini Keyboard]
  type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 1ea7:0066 class-ID: 0301
  Device-2: 1-4:3
  info: Toshiba TransMemory-Mini / Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Stick
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA chip-ID: 0930:6544 class-ID: 0806
  serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-6:4 info: ASUSTek Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth
  driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
  chip-ID: 0b05:17cb class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-2:2 info: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: Video,Audio
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c45:636b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-3:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 33.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 48.0 C
  mem: 50.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 303 Uptime: 11m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 1286 pacman: 1274 lib: 362 flatpak: 0 snap: 12
  Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole
  inxi: 3.3.08

  Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.08

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Tear_free_rendering

Thanks. This didn’t fix my problem directly, but it did help me narrow down the cause which i was then able to fix.

The problem was with the i3 window manager. It doesn’t come with a compositor (or at least not a good one), so i had to install compton. This resolved all my issues.

Good job … except compton is deprecated now.
If you somehow are using that please replace it with picom
(you can also reference this page: picom - ArchWiki)

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