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by noir_lord 3380 days ago
On linux (Xubuntu 16.04/ATI card) smooth scrolling in both Firefox and Chrome causes horrible tearing even with sync to vblank on, The first thing I do on both is disable it and then increase the number of lines scrolled in FF, it's a much better experience then.

    mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount set to 30 (you might need to play with it)
generally works much better.
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tcfunk 3380 days ago
Oh! I've been trying to pin down the cause of this for a while, I'm glad you mentioned this, thank you.
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noir_lord 3380 days ago
If you use Chrome with the open ATI driver if you go in chrome:/flags you can force it to enable hardware acceleration via " Override software rendering list" even if it's not on the (very cautious) whitelist.

To even get to chrome://flags I have to (on first run) do google-chrome --disable-gpu then change the flag then restart.

After that everything works flawlessly, it took me a while to track that one down!.

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