FS#71573 - [mutter] gnome shell redraw rate below refresh rate on nvidia

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gerhard Bogner (slashME) - Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 13:06 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 09 November 2021, 10:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When starting a gnome shell wayland session on the nvidia 470 driver the UI (including the mouse cursor) are redrawn at a lower rate than when using an x.org session. It appears to be half refresh rate with vsync enabled, but only 1 or 2 fps lower without (or with vrr).

There already is an upstream bugreport at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1883 with a pull request at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1826 that seems to fix this.

package version: mutter 40.3
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Tuesday, 09 November 2021, 10:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  mutter 41
Comment by Gerhard Bogner (slashME) - Tuesday, 09 November 2021, 10:51 GMT
this seems to be fixed with gnome 41 currently in testing

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