Hi all, doing this on a 1080Ti and feels a bit ridiculous that there’s screen tearing/jerkiness. I’m on a 60Hz panel at 4K (Dell p4317Q).
Appreciate pointing towards a solution please - thanks!
It’s not so much tearing but just not as fluid compared to when I’m in Windows 10.
From Arch, but should still be relevant iirc; https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Avoid_screen_tearing
Fyi @bsodmike, you can do the above in nvidia-settings with a mouse click.
X-Server-Display > Advanced > Force Full Composition Pipeline
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Have you set the Power mizer to Maximum yet? I get no tearing. What driver are you on?
also the Vsync check box is ‘Sync to VBlank’
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Whatever you’re comfortable with. Either nvidia-settings creating your xorg.conf or modifying an existing xorg.conf with the composition pipeline line.
Thanks all - I enabled both the full composition Pipeline and also tweaked performance as per @Hammerhead_Corvette’s excellent screenies. Will reboot to check…
Edit:
Not seeing much of a difference having made the above changes; if a window is dragged quickly enough, there is some ‘tearing’/lag.
Reports the display is running at 60Hz. I’m on Fedora 28 now.
-> % nvidia-smi
Mon May 21 07:45:23 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 396.24 Driver Version: 396.24 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 108... Off | 00000000:42:00.0 On | N/A |
| 1% 52C P0 64W / 280W | 168MiB / 11173MiB | 1% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
Post reboot I have to manually reset ‘Prefer Maximum Performance’… can this be set as default in the xorg.conf?
The issue is far worse with Google Chrome, which lags/tears more than others, say a gnome window is almost lag free. Tears a bit at severe shaking…
Q: where did you get the driver from? Negativo17 or rpmfusion ? Just curious…
You can set to ‘Prefer Maximum Performance’ in: /etc/X11/xorg.conf with su - privlages
scroll to Section Devices and add:
Option "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x3322; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1"
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It’s Nvidias crappy drivers. I have had issues since 390. Nothing yet that fixes it for me permanently. Im getting myself a cpu and mobo so i can use my 7870 because im tired of this shit.
Someone should try posting Nvidia about this. I tried looking how to complain to Nvidia, but the website they have plus earlier customer support experiences i don’t want to go through that again.
Sorry for the useless rant. 
See the solution I found for screen tearing with nvidia’s proprietary drivers: The small linux problem thread