Comments on: Make Compiz Run Smoothly and Without Tearing

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:20:17 +0000

Just writing to say thanks! This fixed an annoying flicker when moving windows on my mint + nvidia setup.

By: Hanz

Hanz — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:09:08 +0000

Thank you so much!!
I have a 9800gt and it was painful to move my cube desktop. Now everything is smooth as silk

By: rodislav

rodislav — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:34:46 +0000

thanks man! now its better

By: Tortured Utopian

Tortured Utopian — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:54:20 +0000

(you have to disable DynamicTwinView with Nvidia drivers, otherwise, they do return an invalid vertical frequency…)

By: Tortured Utopian

Tortured Utopian — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:53:29 +0000

Please check this post for a complete way to get a good compiz display with no tearing : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110854

By: [ubuntu] Tearing and choppy video w/ ION 330 vdpau in Xinerama - oBlurb

[ubuntu] Tearing and choppy video w/ ION 330 vdpau in Xinerama - oBlurb — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:45:29 +0000

[...] have tried with and without desktop effects enabled, and I have followed the http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/0…thout-tearing/ guide to manually set the refresh rate to 60 Hz. The sync to Vblank option is checked, both in CCSM [...]

By: iDVB

iDVB — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:34:16 +0000

DOH! Fixes didn’t work on my system.

Here’s the weird part. Compiz worked fine on 9.04 with Uber-smooth video with no tweaking required.

Ubuntu 9.10
Dell XPS M170
NVidia Geforce Go7800 GTX
2GB RAM

I tried:
VBlank ON and OFF for both NVidia and Compiz
Tried manually setting NVidia Refresh rate 60
Tried manually setting Compiz Refresh Rate 60, 100, 120
Tried setting Compiz Detect Refresh Rate off and on
…and combos of each.
no luck.

By: Tom Albrecht

Tom Albrecht — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:12:13 +0000

Thanks so much! This fixed my problem, and my XBMC install looks fantastic.

By: Setting up Ubuntu 9.10 | Dicolek ! Edutainment For You

Setting up Ubuntu 9.10 | Dicolek ! Edutainment For You — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:51:29 +0000

[...] and getting Compiz running was how moving windows around looked jerky. I reapplied my settings from “Make Compiz Run Smoothly and Without Tearing” to fix Compiz’s refresh frequency and now it’s back to being [...]

By: ihatethetv

ihatethetv — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:52:04 +0000

This worked great for me. I was about to puke with all the tearing. IT’s not totally smoothe now, but its liveable now.

Working on a stinkpad with a nvidia quadro something or other in it.