Comment 7 for bug 1820832

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Mitch (midda) wrote : Re: [nvidia] [xorg] multiple monitors: limits the framerate of faster 120/144hz monitors to 60hz

For AMD users, I finally managed to get my primary display to correctly update at 144Hz under Xorg by manually enabling TearFree rendering, as described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Tear_Free_Rendering

I manually created the file:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf

Inside it, I added:

Section "Device"
     Identifier "AMD"
     Driver "amdgpu"
     Option "TearFree" "true"
     Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
EndSection

Then rebooted, and everything was -finally- nice and smooth! :D

Note that I added the "VariableRefresh" option because my monitor supports FreeSync. Don't include that line if your monitor doesn't support variable refresh-rates.