Questions tagged [tearing]

Questions related to screen tearing and vsync

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Screen tearing while watching video

I have a bad tearing while watching video in Ubuntu 11.10. I tried to use both smplayer and vlc, but none of them helped. In fact I see tearing only in rips, there is not such problem while watching Blu-ray movies. Though maybe i'm just not very…
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Screen tearing in Kubuntu 16.10

I have really bad screen tearing in pretty much everything including playing games, moving windows around, watching videos... What should I do to fix this screen tearing?
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How to stop screen tearing by enabling Vertical Retrace Synchronization (vsync)

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64, with an AMD Radeon 590 graphics card. By default, there appears to be massive tearing in just about everything you do. Moving windows, watching a movie, watching Youtube, everything! Besides being annoyed, I am…
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Very bad screen tearing

A while ago I randomly started getting extreme tearing in any video I watch, youtube and vlc. I've tried switching between my Nouveau driver and the most recent Nvidia driver, but I don't see any difference. Please advise.
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Eliminate graphic tearing

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I have been able to get rid of tearing while using xbmc but I would like to get rid of it on youtube videos as well. I installed compizconfig and tried some settings someone had recommended with no luck. I am running an…
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Some kind of "tearing"?

Yesterday I experienced some kind of tearing on my rather new install of Ubuntu 14.04. Still, I've done some tweaking using the tweak-tool. Well, yesterday some program was reported crashing, shortly before this weird tearing appeared for the first…
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