Screen Tearing with full screen youtube videos with Modesetting driver

Ok so it is only the browser? Then there are some easy tricks.

Firefox for example:

  • Type “about:config” on the address bar.
  • Search for layers.acceleration.force-enabled (default is false ).
  • Change it to true by double-clicking.
  • Save and restart Firefox.

Chrome

  1. Launch your Chrome/Chromium/Opera
  2. Type chrome://flags to the URL field
  3. Enable the following flagOverride software rendering list Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android

Override the built-in software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations.

Now restart the browser and then check chrome://gpu.

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