Arch Linux

unkle

Member

Registered: 2024-08-11

Posts: 5

[Solved, by itself] KDE 6.2 screen tearing on wayland with AMD GPU.

Just updated to 6.2 on KDE but now all the games I play have noticeable screen tearing on Wayland. I use the mesa drivers and I did not have this issue before. I would like to eliminate the tearing entirely as it was before the upgrade, without downgrading from 6.2 if possible.

I tried unticking the "Screen Tearing" option in the display options and that did not work. I am also certain I am on Wayland.
I also tried the "Adaptive Sync" settings, changing it from "Automatic" to "Always" did not work either.

Last edited by unkle (2024-10-10 21:25:48)

seth

Member

From: Don't DM me only for attention

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,815

Re: [Solved, by itself] KDE 6.2 screen tearing on wayland with AMD GPU.

Are "all the games I play" steam? What about "eglgears_wayland"?
Was the update strictly plasma or also the kernel or mesa?
Single monitor or several?
Do you have any error messages reg. the vblank counter in your journal?
Do you maybe end up running on software emulation?

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation # mostly relevant in case you also updated the kernel

---

How to upload text · How to boot w/o GUI · Disable Windows Fast-Start! · Fix your xinitrc

unkle

Member

Registered: 2024-08-11

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved, by itself] KDE 6.2 screen tearing on wayland with AMD GPU.

Are "all the games I play" steam? What about "eglgears_wayland"?
Was the update strictly plasma or also the kernel or mesa?
Single monitor or several?
Do you have any error messages reg. the vblank counter in your journal?
Do you maybe end up running on software emulation?

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation # mostly relevant in case you also updated the kernel

Thank you for your attention and sorry for not providing proper details first. Right now the problem just... fixed itself. I hadn't changed any settings apart from what I mentioned but after some restarts the problem just disappeared, which is insane because through multiple restarts the problem persisted only to be just gone for now, it seems.

I will mark the post as solved for now and if it pops up again I will come for help again with your points in mind.

Just to clarify "all the games I play" are all the games I literally play through steam, other launchers, wine or native games.
Strictly plasma update, there were no kernel or driver updates.
Single monitor and I didn't see any error messages.

I would like to add that one time I did go through a similar problem when I changed the mirrors to the ones from cachy. (Which I am not using in this case.) The problem started when the modified mirrors called for updates and in turn updated KDE (kwin included) So I would guess reinstalling or updating KDE causes this problem temporarily?