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Hi Golden - Iām new to Roon but noticed this also. I get screen tearing even while scrolling in Roonās client. Iāve never seen this before outside games. Both my server and client are overkill PCs. Itās enough that I started using the Tidal app.
Is it related or a separate issue that adding something to library hitches everything and causes a slow reload? Iām also getting random but frequent occurrences of things not loading in at all until I switch pages and switch back to force a reload. I only mention this in case itās related.
This started recently for me too. The mouse cursor and window framerate get very low when Roon becomes the active window. If I select any other window it returns to normal until the next time I make Roon active.
Iāve done a bit more digging and have found the underlying issue:
Roon currently does not work properly with variable refresh rate displays.
A temporary workaround until Roon implements a fix is to disable variable refresh rate / NVIDIA G-Sync / AMD Freesync whilst using Roon.
Whenever Roon is in the background, everything is fine. The cursor is smooth, and even Roon UI elements like the purple spinning circle in the top right when adding tracks are perfectly smooth.
As soon as Roon is clicked on and made the active window, FPS drops massively, the cursor becomes stuttery and unresponsive, and the purple spinning circle on Roon itself also becomes stuttery.
As soon as any other window or the desktop is clicked on, everything becomes smooth again.
When roon is active, stuttering temporarily stops WHILST the user is scrolling (eg: through the albums display), but returns as soon as they stop. So if the UI is āmovingā, then stuttering stops. As soon as the UI is āstaticā, stuttering returns.
It seems Roon is reporting a very low FPS to variable refresh rate displays and therefore is causing significant stuttering when in use.
Disabling VRR makes the issue go away entirely, but is of course not an ideal fix as we then canāt use VRR without having to go and manually re-enable it again. VRR displays are also becoming increasingly common so if left unfixed this issue will continue to affect more users.
Thank you for this. Was running into this myself and this worked for me. With that said, I reenabled G-Sync and Roon somehow is working normally with it on. So give it a try and see if that works for you too.
Up until recently I had two G-SYNC 144 Hz displays with no problem. The other day I had an issue with a power outage and it killed the DisplayPort path on one of the panels, so I have the bad one running at 60 Hz via HDMI until a replacement arrives. I should be back in action soon!
Thanks again GS, and Iāll take the opportunity to say I really appreciate your content. You do a lot of great work for the community (and have now helped me personally)!
Thank you for your patience in awaiting a response from Roon.
I am going to bring this issue to my development group to see if they have any insights on how we could address this. Iād wager that the vast majority of Roon users arenāt affected by this but there are also a LOT of us that feel the need for speed!
Iāll drop back in once Iāve had a chance to discuss things with them next week.
Hopefully it wonāt be too tricky to address.
If it helps at all, the issue goes away completely when opening the album art view. So it seems that itās not Roon as a whole but certain UI elements/pages that are causing it.