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demokey

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 3

Adaptive Sync Issue - (VRR with AMD FreeSync NVIDIA GPU) Black Screen

Hello, I have been having this issue for quite a long while, I thought the 570 drivers would fix it, but they did not sadly.
I have a GTX 1660 Super, I am using KDE Plasma 6.3 on Wayland and my monitor is the ViewSonic XG2405.

This is a very odd problem, that doesn't seem to happen in Windows:
after throughly testing, Adaptive Sync works until my monitor turns off that is set in KDE, then after I wake up the monitor, it starts having issues when I go into fullscreen apps with Adaptive Sync on, it turns off and on and turns into a black screen with no input until I alt-tab out of said program. It seems that changing the monitor from 144hz to 120hz, then back to 144hz fixes the problem temporarily until the monitor goes to sleep/turns off again.

Would appreciate any ideas or help on this, it's really bothersome and I don't know what's meant to fix it at this point.

espresso

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From: Pale Blue Dot, US

Registered: 2023-05-15

Posts: 64

Re: Adaptive Sync Issue - (VRR with AMD FreeSync NVIDIA GPU) Black Screen

While I do not have more information at hand, perhaps this can help? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate

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Shiro39

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Registered: 2025-04-08

Posts: 1

Re: Adaptive Sync Issue - (VRR with AMD FreeSync NVIDIA GPU) Black Screen

I think I might have the same issue. noticed it when I was taking regional screenshot with spectacle. my screen turns black.
the solution seems to just disable adaptive sync completely. toggling it to "always" made it really bad for me.

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.13.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 13.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C96
System Version: 1.0