Questions tagged [screen-tearing]
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Screen tearing in Firefox when using middle mouse button to scroll
Whenever i use my middle mouse button to scroll through a web page (any web page) the screen starts tearing.
Additional info
This does not happen in any other browser.
I have latest graphic card driver so the problem is not in that.
I have latest…
MaxBedlam
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What is the difference between Nvidia's G-SYNC and AMD's FreeSync?
I recently read about Nvidia's G-SYNC technology and it sounds pretty cool! Their solution seemed quite elegant to me. That is, until I read about AMD's FreeSync technology.
The main difference I could gather from all that is that Nvidia is rolling…
Anish Ramaswamy
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Why does this image cause screen flickering?
Image from Avast! software overlay on desktop:
Image from SteamCommunity website (most pronounced around the second horizontal gray divider):
I realize that this is an issue with my hardware, these images just demonstrate the sorts of patterns and…
wes
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Video playback shows fault lines where it looks like parts of two frames are being spliced together (edit: called "tearing")
I'm using Gentoo Linux with 3.8.13 x86 kernel at home and 3.10.4 x86_64 kernel at work.
When I'm watching 720p or 1080p HD .mkv containing a H264 MPEG-4 video in full screen mode (VLC, mplayer) I'm frequently seeing strange lines, that are little…
user157378
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How to prevent this window behaviour in Linux
This happens when I move the windows. Details:
openbox
ATI proprietary driver
no problem in OpenGL contexts
I don't want to use any compositing manager
It's not so strange, quite common in fact. Read here.
Obviously this image doesn't reproduce…
cYrus
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Do monitors not atomically/instantaneously refresh their pixels?
I'm trying to understand what causes screen tearing. Suppose that a monitor could update every single one of its pixels instantaneously. Then I imagine refreshes would work like this:
A monitor decides its going to start a refresh
It looks at…
alecbz
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probing/setting Xorg conf values
Is there any way to probe values from Xorg just so i don't have to restart it several times, each time with each value to see which one works best. By probing i can already write down the behaviour for one value...
for example, i'm trying to get rid…
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How to get rid of screen tearing
I have a 23" NEC IPS display and the nvidia 9800 gt video card. Even when I enable vsync in flash and games, I still get tearing--a line in the middle of the screen every few seconds or so.
Is the video card or the diplay causing the tearing? Would…
TheOne
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Screen tearing with GeForce 550 Ti
Recently I switched to the new monitor and graphic card - DELL U2312HM and GeForce GTX 550 Ti. I have problems with screen tearing, like in this picture from Wikipedia:
Author: Vanessaezekowitz
Usually it is somewhere in upper part of the screen.…
Gene D.
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How can I resolve screen tearing on my HP DV6 6140TX?
I installed WIndows 7 fresh on my laptop, and now it boots in Fixed mode (Switchable graphics as set in BIOS)
But on booting, whenever dGPU (AMD 6770M) is selected, I get screen tearing.
And this screen tearing continues right from the time I…
user1366545
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Peculiar "Vertical" screen tearing in Windows 7
I have a rather peculiar problem. I'm running Windows 7 and have an Nvidia GTX 470 GPU. When I have a video playing in one window and try to scroll in another window that overlaps the video window, the screen tears vertically right where the video…
Max
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Screen tearing using Firefox and Chrome at full screen
About ten minutes ago, I came back to my computer and noticed that my screen seemed to be "tearing" to the right, comparable to the wind effect in GIMP. This was mostly on the edges of the Chrome browser window I had open, and over text in the…
csyprv
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Issue With Google Cloud Platform GUI Flickering
Ok, this is bizarre and I'm not sure if I'm in the right place or not so sorry in advance.
when I access the Google Cloud platform the Console GUI..
the page starts flickering:
Screenshot
I don't know why, when I change to other tabs it's ok.
it…
ShifraSec
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Persistant horizontal "screen tearing" issue visible on in-browser videos
For the past few months at least, I've noticed a persistent screen tearing problem when I watch Youtube videos (or other video formats, for that matter) on my browser. Here is an example of what I mean - I took screenshots of Youtube running in…
Max
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Java-utilizing programs malfunctioning
I've been having a problem for a while with programs that utilize java (e.g. Geogebra, Maple, MarvinSketch etc.). It's kind of an image distortion that changes when the cursor is moved around.
Interestingly Java IDEs like Eclipse and JCreator work…
lex56
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