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Screen goes black periodically when playing video games (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 1 year ago by penquin@lemmy.kde.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi all, Not sure if this is a distro specific, DE specific, a monitor brand specific or just linux/AMD in general. So, I have an RX580 GPU. It is an older one, but does just for what I do on my PC (emulation). Everything works fine until I start one of the emulators and play a game. I have two 27" 4k monitors, a dell and a sceptre. Once the game starts, the sceptre monitor starts going black every couple of seconds, then comes back up. This continues until I stop the game. Both monitors are connected through DP to the GPU. Not sure what to do, to be honest. All drivers are there when I checked (as far as I know). This happens on both wayland and xorg. Any input is greatly appreciated! If anyone needs more info, please let me know. Thank you

System is:

Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.5-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: A520I AC System Version: -CF

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm. Then it's definitely not related to compositing acting up. I'm stumped on what your issue might be. What happens if you make the dodgy monitor the main one? Or use some other display entirely for a secondary monitor?

It's a good script, it doesn't buy you a lot of fps, but the improvement in frame-times is noticeable to me. I'd imagine even undemanding games would feel better with the reduction in input latency that nets you.

You could disable compositing altogether if you don't care about visual desktop effects and animations, the script is just a way to automate turning it off only when needed. And you can always toggle it manually with ctrl+alt+f12.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do I disable the compositor manually instead of the key combination? Where in the settings is it located? Also, I'll try to make the asshole monitor the main one and see what happens.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Settings>Display and Monitor>Compositor>Uncheck "Enable on startup"

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for that. The script sounds like a good idea. I didn't find "autocompose", I found "autocomposer", is that the same one?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, that's the one. Thank you. I'll mess with it and see