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When I play games or watch videos, there is very noticeable screen tearing.

  • I have tried turning on vsync in both the game and the nvidia settings (sync to vblank).

  • I have tried setting the image quality and powermizer to best performance.

  • I have tried setting 'force full screen redraw' in compizconfig-settings-manager.

  • I tried adding the intel section to xorg.conf with 'tearfree' option set to true.

  • I tried setting the -bs option in lighdm 50-server-command.conf

  • I also tried to use the 355.11 drivers.

None of that has helped.

I'm using Ubuntu 15.10, GTX 960, and am using the proprietary 352.55 nvidia drivers. I have an intel i5 processor.

What else can I try?

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can you go into your bios and increase the amount of video memory? – j0h Oct 28 '15 at 21:52
    
I can increase Intel video memory allocation up to 512mb that's my only option. Currently It's at 64mb. – MikeJerome Oct 28 '15 at 22:22
    
Did you do it? / was it helpful? – j0h Oct 28 '15 at 22:23
    
@j0h I just tried increasing to 512 and it had no effect on the screen tearing. – MikeJerome Oct 28 '15 at 22:29
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Had same problem in xfce 15.10. Switching the windows compositor solved my issue

http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/

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