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Screen tears horizontally, not vertically
Screen can tear however it wants to! Don't stifle its creativity! ๐
i think i saw a case where the screen teared diagonally. but that was more so a software problem i believe
Not on my portrait monitor
Uhhh I have both!!!
How? Well let's explain my setup that any Nvidia gpu on Linux hates.
We have a 2k monitor on the bottom and a 1080p tv on the top.
Now on LinuxMint I have screen tearing vertically (especially when proton is running) and horizontally in the area where the two screens meet.
On debian I only had horizontal screen tearing occasionally.
OG Steam Deck tears vertically.
That's because the orientation of the screen is actually portrait, and it is rotated to landacape in software.
I think I've once tried a vsync test which checked both if there's vertical and horizontal tearing โ and while vertical tearing was a lot more obvious it told me I have both lol.