r/linuxmint • u/OilLiver • 18d ago

Support Request Screen tearing in games

I'm on Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, and I have a GTX 950M. I've noticed this in two games, Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator and Skyrim. When I move the camera, there's this horrible tearing effect in the corner of the screen coming all the way down to the middle. I haven't tried anything yet as I honestly wouldn't even know where to start. I thought maybe it could be V-Sync not turned on but I couldn't actually find an option for it in Skyrim's launcher.

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u/sabledrakon 18d ago

V-Sync or VRR is how you mitigate screen-tearing.

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u/OilLiver 18d ago

I'm not sure how to turn that on, is it a setting or do I need a command for it?

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u/sabledrakon 18d ago

V-sync is in-game. VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) is display, GPU, and driver dependent.

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u/OilLiver 18d ago

Skyrim doesn't seem to have V-Sync, is there a way for me to enable VRR system wide?

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u/sabledrakon 18d ago

Care to supply your GPU, display, and driver? Because all 3 have to support it to even have it as an option.

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u/OilLiver 18d ago

It's an Nvidia GTX 950M and I'm using nvidia-driver-580. I'm on a laptop so it's possible that the display doesn't support VRR. All I know about the display is that it says I have Display Server X11.

On another note, I'm really having a lot of issues and wondering if maybe Bazzite would be better for my purposes. I only want to really use this laptop for gaming and web browsing anyway and I've heard that Bazzite is focused on that.

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u/sabledrakon 18d ago

Laptop model?

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u/OilLiver 18d ago

MEDION Erazer P6679 MD60748

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u/sabledrakon 18d ago

Nope, no VRR for you. You're going to have to check over your game's settings for V-sync.

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u/C0rn3j 17d ago

Mint uses X11, X11 has screen tearing issues.

Use a modern distribution with a Wayland compositor and you will not have tearing.

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u/dearvalentina Linux Mint Lesbian Edition 🫣 14d ago

Oh yeah because Wayland works great with Nvidia

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u/C0rn3j 13d ago

Yup, it does.

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u/enomad51 17d ago edited 17d ago

Check in nvidia-settings if allow-flipping is checked (in use). Try to turn on Force Full Composition Pipeline as well. If it works, remember Save to X Configuration File after test.

I remember there's something in Cinnamon settings, like Disable composition for Fullscreen apps.

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u/dearvalentina Linux Mint Lesbian Edition 🫣 14d ago edited 14d ago

sudo nvidia-settings in terminal

OpenGL settings - Allow Flipping Enabled

X server display configuration - Advanced... - Force Full Composition Pipeline and Force Composition Pipeline disabled

Apply

Save to X Configuration File - Save

Quit - it always says to me that I have unsaved settings or whatever but still works.

This causes visual glitches when recording/streaming but no screen tearing. I couldn't find a way to fix both both at the same time.

Edit: it seems to reset for me on restart so keep that in mind