Allow tearing will not enable since the update to 0.47.2

[ZacharyVarney]

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Regression?

Probably not a regression / I don't remember it happening before

System Info and Hyprland Version

System/Version info

Hyprland 0.47.2 built from branch at commit 882f7ad (version: bump to 0.47.2).
Date: Sun Feb 2 00:47:17 2025
Tag: v0.47.2, commits: 5767
built against:
aquamarine 0.7.2
hyprlang 0.6.0
hyprutils 0.5.0
hyprcursor 0.1.11
hyprgraphics 0.1.2

no flags were set

System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: zachs-pc
Release: 6.13.2-2-cachyos
Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:26:09 +0000

GPU information:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] [1002:73df] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

os-release: NAME="CachyOS Linux"
PRETTY_NAME="CachyOS"
ID=cachyos
ID_LIKE=arch
BUILD_ID=rolling
ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209"
HOME_URL="https://cachyos.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.cachyos.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://discuss.cachyos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/cachyos"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/privacy-policy/"
LOGO=cachyos

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Description

I've tried numerous configurations to no avail allow tearing will not work anymore. I used it just fine on 0.46, but since I moved to 0.47.2 it will no longer enable anymore. Monitoring hyprctl monitors activelyTearing stays false & no tearing is seen on my preferred test game where it would be obvious.

How to reproduce

1. set allow_tearing to true in general section of config
2. set immediate windowrulev2 on window class of game
3. while game is fullscreen go to another monitor to run command 'watch hyprctl monitors' to view activelyTearing
4. See if you notice any tearing in the game

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• Hyprland config - hyprctl systeminfo -c (always include)
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Additional info & File uploads

hyprland_config_dump.txt

[Ssdj3nt]

Works just fine for me on fullscreen, tested with vkcube.

general {
allow_tearing = 1
}

windowrulev2 = immediate, focus:1

[ZacharyVarney]

@Ssdj3nt That's strange, me & a few others on Reddit are all having this issue.

[ferrreo]

@Ssdj3nt That's strange, me & a few others on Reddit are all having this issue.

There just be some config you all have in common causing this or something because it works fine generally.

I did notice you have direct_scanout enabled - try disabling that

[PlexILIghT]

Same thing, but I don't remember when tearing worked for me.
I have direct_scanout disabled and I tried everything. Can it be some program that doesn't allow for tearing to happen? Both my monitors are not tearing. I am checking it with sleep 3; hyprctl monitors
Tried every rule for some apps, and general ones.

Here's my hypr config
hyprland-config.txt

[ferrreo]

Same thing, but I don't remember when tearing worked for me. I have direct_scanout disabled and I tried everything. Can it be some program that doesn't allow for tearing to happen? Both my monitors are not tearing. I am checking it with sleep 3; hyprctl monitors Tried every rule for some apps, and general ones.

Here's my hypr config hyprland-config.txt

Looks like you have direct scanout in one of the confs set to 2 and not totally disabled? The other thing to try is a window rule to force exclusive fullscreen for whatever you want to tear.

[ZacharyVarney]

Disabling direct_scanout didn't work for me unfortunately, I also tried changing from software cursors to hardware cursors. I also disabled explicit sync which didn't seem to do anything either.

[ferrreo]

Is everyone with the issue running arch or an arch based distro (e.g cachy)? As maybe it is a packaging issue. Maybe try Hyprland-git from the aur or compiling the whole hl stack from source from the release tags to rule it out.

[Ssdj3nt]

Is everyone with the issue running arch or an arch based distro (e.g cachy)? As maybe it is a packaging issue. Maybe try Hyprland-git from the aur or compiling the whole hl stack from source from the release tags to rule it out.

I'm on vanilla Arch with CachyOS repo if it can be useful.

[LionHeartP]

Tearing doesn't work with Gamescope or wine-wayland. Make sure you're not using either.

The wine-wayland thing is reported here: #7052

[LionHeartP]

Same thing, but I don't remember when tearing worked for me. I have direct_scanout disabled and I tried everything. Can it be some program that doesn't allow for tearing to happen? Both my monitors are not tearing. I am checking it with sleep 3; hyprctl monitors Tried every rule for some apps, and general ones.

Here's my hypr config hyprland-config.txt

The steam_app window rule looks wrong to me
It should be something like

windowrulev2=immediate, class:^(steam_app_.*)$

[ZacharyVarney]

Same thing, but I don't remember when tearing worked for me. I have direct_scanout disabled and I tried everything. Can it be some program that doesn't allow for tearing to happen? Both my monitors are not tearing. I am checking it with sleep 3; hyprctl monitors Tried every rule for some apps, and general ones.
Here's my hypr config hyprland-config.txt

The steam_app window rule looks wrong to me It should be something like

windowrulev2=immediate, class:^(steam_app_.*)$

Idk about his case, but I can already say the window rule being wrong has nothing to do with my case. I even tried it with the game class grabbed from hyprctl clients.

[fufexan]

Just noticed this as well while playing osu!lazer. NixOS, direct_scanout disabled, hardware cursors, proper windowrules.

[fufexan]

The regression lies between 0.47.1 and .2. Someone please bisect, I don't have time right now.

[nnyyxxxx]

works fine for me with 0.47.1 and -git

[ZacharyVarney]

works fine for me with 0.47.1 and -git

Weird I just tried the latest -git & it still doesn't work for me same as 0.47.2

[nnyyxxxx]

weird

[fufexan]

works fine for me with 0.47.1 and -git

Can confirm, -git works fine.

[ferrreo]

Is there an issue with hyprctl reporting activelyTearing in -git? Because I can see the game I'm testing tearing and the fps is not capped and yet hyprctl insists it is not activelyTearing.

[ZacharyVarney]

There is definitely something very specific going on then. I just retested it & on cs2 with the windowrule grabbed straight from example on wiki, the game does not tear at all & activelyTearing stays false. The game is running way above refresh rate which is 144 & the game is at like 300 fps.

[fufexan]

Does tearing work with other games?

[ZacharyVarney]

Does tearing work with other games?

Not that I've found I've tried VRRTest, CS2, DOOM Eternal, & Minecraft. Non of them seem tear at all with a frame rate way above refresh rate, but they do on KDE.

[ZacharyVarney]

Would someone who has allow tearing to be working on latest -git mind sharing there config. The only thing I can think of is a bad combination of config options maybe

[PlexILIghT]

Same thing, but I don't remember when tearing worked for me. I have direct_scanout disabled and I tried everything. Can it be some program that doesn't allow for tearing to happen? Both my monitors are not tearing. I am checking it with sleep 3; hyprctl monitors Tried every rule for some apps, and general ones.
Here's my hypr config hyprland-config.txt

The steam_app window rule looks wrong to me It should be something like

windowrulev2=immediate, class:^(steam_app_.*)$

Well, I was testing it on osu!lazer, which is only xwayland, not wine obviously not proton, and I had windowrulev2 = immediate, focus:1
As I said I tried all combinations for the game.
I'm running Arch with bin Hyprland package 0.47.2
direct_scanout was disabled before I tried it last before uploading config
direct_scanout IS disabled. Tried rule to full screen the game, but no changes, I have no other other windows on screen with the game, I have nothing drawing over it. activelyTearing is false and I can see that tearing is not enabled. There's 0 teared frames and small latency.

[fufexan]

Well, I was testing it on osu!lazer, which is only xwayland, not wine obviously not proton

osu!lazer can run on wayland just fine. In fact, the last update introduced SDL3 which will run on wayland by default.