Hello,
I’m having a bizarre problem. I have screen tearing issues, but only in games on Steam, and apparently only in native Linux games using Vulkan. Not in windows Steam games run through Proton. I have installed Steam and run it from a second user account, set with standard account type, which I’m now aware does not have sudo privileges like my prior Linux distribution Linuxmint allowed. Not the default created administrator account. I don’t have any screen tearing issues in either user account with videos on Firefox, or videos played in VLC. Also no screen tearing in Supertuxkart in both accounts.
Inxi output:
Kernel: 6.2.8-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.2-x86_64
root=UUID=7361f228-1102-406f-93c9-8c30f3d4372e rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z170-A v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 3802
date: 03/15/2018
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.56 GiB used: 3.9 GiB (25.1%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S
gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 799 high: 800 min/max: 800/4200 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 799 3: 800 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 64026
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb erms est f16c flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc
tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
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: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 530.41.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 530.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx
process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13c2
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109
size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (26.97") modes: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.41.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX
970/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.2.8-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.67 status: off tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 125.63 GiB (3.4%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Sabrent model: Rocket Q
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: RKT30Q.1 temp: 25.9 C scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC25 scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GH24NSC0 rev: LK00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 12 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (98.37%) used: 125.63 GiB (6.9%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: 7361f228-1102-406f-93c9-8c30f3d4372e
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 1024 KiB (0.2%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: MM-storage
uuid: 7DC123C74498A0AD
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-10:2 info: Sunplus Innovation Optical Mouse type: Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 98mA
chip-ID: 1bcf:0005 class-ID: 0301
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 24.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 54 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 18%
Info:
Processes: 281 Uptime: 3h 34m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 252
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1170 libs: 367 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.26
Here is what I’ve tried so far.
From the administrator user account:
sudo nvidia-settings
Check mark, “Force full composition pipe line”, click on apply, then click on “Save to X configuration File”, and save it to
/etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
Logged into the standard type user account and enabled Force full composition pipe line in nvidia-settings.
Then restarted Manjaro and tested in Steam games.
The above solution changed absolutely nothing.
From the standard type user account that Steam is installed and run from:
I’ve tried disabling the XFCE compositor via XFCE Menu—>Settings—>Window Manager Tweaks—> Compositor tab—>Remove the check mark for “Enable display compositing”.
No difference or improvement.
Just to be sure I also used the terminal command to do the same thing that I found in this link:
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s false
No difference or improvement.
At this point I disabled Force full composition pipe line in nvidia-settings in both user accounts and deleted the added line in /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf, and restarted Manjaro.
From this link, I used the terminal command from the standard type user account:
nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
This made no difference either.
I’m not entirely sure what the issue is. Is it possible that the XFCE compositor is still causing problems even when disabled?
In this link, I’ve tried changing the vblank mode to all three, one at a time and testing, with no improvement.
What I have not tried is:
Changing compositor as the Arch Linux wiki says in the link above. I don’t understand why this is a option to fix screen tearing.
I’m at my wits end with this, and I understand the KDE version of Manjaro has a better compositor to deal with screen tearing. Such that I might just re-install Manjaro with the KDE version to give it a try, if I find there is no solution to this.
I’m happy to post other logs, or system info if needed.
Any ideas to fix this?
