A small breakthrough today: I discovered the issue is not compiz, it's
just the unity plugin. The tearing stops when you disable the unity
plugin. The same is true for performance bug 861061.
Both issues seem to be caused by an unreasonable amount of overhead that
the unity plugin introduces into
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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** Description changed:
You might expect that with Sync To VBlank enabled in compiz that video
tearing doesn't happen. But it does, just less often.
This is normal, expected behaviour. The cause is that compiz (up to
0.9.6 at least) uses GLX_SGI_video_sync, which provides a rough way
I think that fixing this bug will also resolve bug 201342.
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Video tearing still occurs in compiz (less so) when Sync To VBlank
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Screenshot of what to enable for a workaround.
** Description changed:
You might expect that with Sync To VBlank enabled in compiz that video
tearing doesn't happen. But it does, just less often.
This is normal, expected behaviour. The cause is that compiz (up to
0.9.6 at least) uses
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Video tearing still occurs in compiz (less so) when Sync To
** Description changed:
You might expect that with Sync To VBlank enabled in compiz that video
tearing doesn't happen. But it does, just less often.
This is normal, expected behaviour. The cause is that compiz (up to
0.9.6 at least) uses GLX_SGI_video_sync, which provides a rough way
