During the last year, I've solved tearing from movie playback on three different systems (nVidia discrete, AMD integrated, Intel integrated) by using the "TearF

During the last year, I've solved tearing from movie playback on three different systems (nVidia discrete, AMD integrated, Intel integrated) by using the "TearFree" Xorg Driver option. I'm not sure if this also affects the desktop environment (looks like it does from the machine I'm using). If so, this mean s that there is a working solution. Tearing in games is an entirely different beast, as other factors come into play (most notably, latency) - besides, games have specific option[s] for that.