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How to fix intense display tearing? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by someacnt@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have been getting monitor tearing time to time, even with windows. It wasn't occurring often, and I could fix it by turning the monitor off and on, so I have been sleeping on it.

A few days ago, it began tearing like crazy, and it happens after turning the monitor on for a few minutes. It came to the point where the computer is nearly unusable, so I want to solve the issue once and for all.

How do I go with resolving a monitor tearing issue? Or, is it the faulty monitor? The issue also happens on Windows, after all..

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[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

Not mentioned, but if there are mobo monitor connections, try those, too.

But yes, this is almost definitely a hardware problem since it's also happening in Windows. The only other plausible option would be the hardware's firmware, but that seems unlikely...

It could theoretically be an incredible fluke to have a software issue in both Windows and Linux... Maybe the same weird edge-case hardware interaction that's the same between two versions of a closed-source NVidia driver? I can't see that as plausible, though.

If OP is in a developed country, used monitors are cheap. My vertically-oriented side monitor I got for $20, and I only even paid that much because I needed one that could go vertical orientation without a monitor arm.

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