How to fix screen tear?

Question

I have a 4k screen with Intel 520. When I was a video in full screen I notice a lot of screen tear. I specifically noticed this on YouTube. I use the Google Chrome Browser.

Things I have tried:

• CompizConfig Settings Manager
• Screen tearing while watching video
• Screen tearing with Intel graphics

Answer 1

You need to have the intel-microcode package installed, and Hardware acceleration enabled in Chromium (or Google Chrome if using it instead), to improve performance of HTML5 video in the browser, such as when watching on YouTube.