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Stop Screen Tearing
Distro(s): Debian Wheezy/Jessie (7/8)
Description: Fix screen tearing in games.
- Turn off compositing
- KDE: Settings > System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced > Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows.
- Enable sync to Vblank
- Nvidia Settings Utility
- Force GPU power levels to max
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf Section "Device" Identifier "My GPU" Driver "nvidia" Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1" EndSection