Fix tearing problem using proprietary nvidia driver and x11

[HI3M]

I had tearing-problems with my GTX 680 on Debian Jessie AMD64 after installing the proprietary nvidia driver 346.47

I finally fixed it this way:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

edit the following:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "on"
    Option         "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

(add the 3 Option lines)

I hope this could help some linux/debian users. Enjoy gaming!

[ripper81]

How about Ubuntu. There is no xorg.conf. Any ideas about that ?

[HI3M]

I'm not a ubuntu user but as i read here[wiki.ubuntu.com] you may create an additional file e.g. /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/tearingfix.conf which will be automatically merged into your configuration.

Maybe you can try this:

Section "Screen"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "on"
    Option         "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
EndSection

[ripper81]

Well let's see if that works

[ripper81]

No this didn't help. It kills my x.org sessions.

[毕贤胜[Linux]]

on ubuntu you can use the nvidia-settings utility to set your display options, then save it as a xorg.conf file, and then edit it to your liking. once you're satisfied you can place xorg.conf in /etc/X11

[LxFx]

Works for me, thanks.

Specs: Intel Core i3, Nvidia GTX 660, Arch Linux 4.4.5, Xorg 1.18.2, Openbox 3.6.1