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I have tried everything, from changing smooth in scrolling chrome://flags to updating drivers. Currently running ubuntu 16.04, and I only get screen tearing in google chrome whether it's watching youtube videos or casually browsing the internet...

S. Schultz
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    can you please provide a screenshot for the screen tearing? – john400 Aug 21 '16 at 06:17
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    Ito not constant, it's only when I am scrolling through the browsers and watching videos now, it's almost like it flickers on and off john400 – S. Schultz Aug 26 '16 at 20:54
  • Have you tried this one out.http://askubuntu.com/questions/237881/chrome-screen-tearing-while-rendering-pages?rq=1 – john400 Aug 27 '16 at 05:37
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    I'm having a similar problem. Just to demonstrate, here is a screenshot. Ironically, it demonstrates the problem on this very page. – adentinger Jul 30 '17 at 23:17
  • Do you have hardware acceleration enabled in Chrome? – dobey Dec 20 '17 at 22:33
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    If you still have this issue please [edit] your post to include the output of sudo lshw -C display and if not, please share your solution with the community. Thank you! – Elder Geek Dec 21 '17 at 14:59

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screen tearing probably is mostly graphic card issue.

if you use nvidia, you can try :

screenshot

Load "nvidia-settings"(see screenshot) and you will need to go to this screen and then hit “Advanced” at the bottom (my screenshot doesn't have the button, as this is what you see after you hit it). Tick the boxes for “Force Composition Pipeline” and “Force Full Composition Pipeline” and then hit "Apply". Then you can then enjoy a tear-free experience on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU.

make sure you update to latest graphic driver by adding this repo in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa -y

also, it's better to post your system configuration before posting to help getting accurate answer by running in terminal:

inxi -Fxxrzc0

and paste the result to gist or pastebin.

hope this helps.

Jastria Rahmat
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