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nikolov3591

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Registered: 2021-09-28

Posts: 1

Plasma 5.22 - Steam native games black screen after start up

Hello everyone, my first post on this forum, so please bear with me. When I run a steam native game as soon as it game loads it goes to black screen the cursor is not visible but I can tell the game is running actually can hear sounds and when I alt+tab the game menus would show for a brief period and then it goes to black screen again in rare occasions after some alt+tabbing the game UI would render and will be playable. I've spend many hours trying to figure out what is going on but I am not sure entirely. My guess it's something to do with Xorg/Plasma or Vulkan.  Issue happens for the following games - Dota2, Dota Underlords, GS:GO with steam-runtime. Steam in game overlay is disabled, proton is not installed.

There are a few errors in the steam logs but they are not causing the issue - determined that after a lot of DD. Any help is welcome, will try to provide as much information as possible if you need any additional outputs please do let me know.

The issue occurred after a fresh install of Arch with KDE+SDDM. Everything on the system is installed as per Arch Wikis.

For the sake of example I will use Dota2 but I think the issue is somewhere in plasma, If you look at Dota2 files there is a touch file using_vulkan - removing that file would allow to start the game in OpenGl mode but the same issue happens, making me think it has something to do with window management. Tried starting the game in windowed mode, full screen, by setting launch options but nothing works.

Kernel params - `nvidia-drm.modeset=1`
For vulkan I have the following packages installed:

nvidia-utils
   vulkan-icd-loader
   lib32-vulkan-icd-loader

Vulkaninfo is working.

Dota 2 logs
Last boot log
Xorg log

Linux workstation 5.14.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:36:15 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

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Driver version: 470.74
GPU class: Unknown
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kscreen:


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Edit: Just tried switching to GNOME to see how it behaves there - same issue but the mouse pointer triggers it e.g when you click and the game UI will eventually show up again - guess I have messed something up earlier but not sure what.

Last edited by nikolov3591 (2021-09-28 11:46:39)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,331

Re: Plasma 5.22 - Steam native games black screen after start up

Afaik there's a bug with the current nvidia driver and gsync, if you have that enabled try to disable that, alternatively downgrade the nvidia drivers one version (... install linux-headers and pick the matching nvidia-dkms/nvidia-utils/lib32-nvidia-utils set) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive