How To Fix Video Tearing With ATI Proprietary Drivers

If you have ATI card and installed proprietary drivers you  may notice that drivers are so "awesome" that you need to search for fixes all day ;)

One of the problem that you may get is video tearing, even you tried some things to fix it, it is still here.

This is because ATI Proprietary Drivers.

If you have drivers version 11.4 + (on Ubuntu 11.04+ default),
Go to ATI Catalyst Control Center > Display Options > Tear Free
There check "Enable Tear Free Desktop to reduce tearing"

and you're done.

For older drivers, open terminal and typing.



First make a backup of xorg.conf

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup

If something goes wrong you can any time use backup of xorg.conf

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now delete xorg.conf

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now you need to generate new xorg.conf, you can do this by typing:

sudo aticonfig --initial

This will generate new xorg.conf.

Now type:

sudo aticonfig --sync-video=on

This will enable vsync.

Restart computer so it can load new setting from new xorg.conf.

After restart open Catalyst Control Center.

In CCC go to 3D > Anti-Aliasing

Here check "Override application setting" and set "Level" to 4X

Now go to 3D > More Settings

Here set slider under "Wait for vertical refresh" to "Always On"