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Thorsten Reinbold

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 353

[Temporary Solved] Screen goes black while playing fs games

Ok, this is really weird.

What happens? When playing games (Dead Cells in my case) the screen goes black periodically, making the game practically unplayable. First i thought it has something to do with steam or some missing libs, but I also own the GOG version and installed that with the exact same behavior. Playing the game in windowed mode works as workaround, but is of course not a solution. (And I also want to find out what is happening here)

I'm running gnome,  with a Nvidia GTX 1070 and the nvidia-drivers. Everything else is working fine. By the way, the screen does not go into standby or turns off, it just goes black.

One thing that is maybe important: when I run the game (steam or non-steam) on a Gnome-Classic Session, everythings works as expected.

Last edited by Thorsten Reinbold (2020-01-17 22:04:17)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,729

Re: [Temporary Solved] Screen goes black while playing fs games

Check the journal on whether there are gnome/mutter errors. Are you on Wayland or xorg? Try xorg if wayland.

Thorsten Reinbold

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 353

Re: [Temporary Solved] Screen goes black while playing fs games

I can't find any Gnome/Mutter errors in the journal so far. I'm running Gnome via xorg. I will test now if a new user profile ist helping.

Thorsten Reinbold

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 353

Re: [Temporary Solved] Screen goes black while playing fs games

If there is one thing I can't stand at all, it's errors that magically disappear again. I can't reproduce it right now. However, I've had it before, so I expect it will happen again. Maybe there will be a chance to have a closer look at it.