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Astroarch

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-03-21

Posts: 85

Tearing with Openbox+LXDE

Hello guys,
since I installed Arch on my Destop I experience video tearing meanwhile watching videos, surfing on internet and playing games.
My system has a NVIDIA card with the last driver installed. How could I solve it?

Thanks.

maslascher

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 52

Re: Tearing with Openbox+LXDE

You can solve this by using Compton from AUR. This is the best tutorial i've found online:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/11484 … g-in-xfce/
But normal metod was not working but alternate method was working like charm.
Arch Wiki doesn't mention about any driver workaround so this is propably the best option for you.

Edit: if you have "new" GPU (series 600, 700 and Titan) you can try that out:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … FTitan_GPU
But this will have impact on performance. Don't know which method will be less-performance impact.

Last edited by maslascher (2014-08-29 17:45:05)

Astroarch

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-03-21

Posts: 85

Re: Tearing with Openbox+LXDE

I do not understand very well the alternate method.