#Fullscreen Issues with Proton Games - Screen Blacks Out/Difficulty Switching To Windowed

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rigid oxide
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I think this is a better summary:

I've been having issues with some of the games I've been testing out [ex: System Shock Remake, Peripeteia etc] - All of them seem to run butter smooth, when I can see them that is.

For whatever reason, the screen will black out as if a new monitor is being plugged in, or I'm changing the resolution in the display settings, and it will do that persistently over and over again unless I switch it to windowed. Most games will briefly go into windowed mode but then sub-sequentially change back to fullscreen and then continue blacking out like before.

I tried a "temporary solution" someone posted on Reddit some time ago, which was to enable "Force Full Composition Pipeline", which would disable G-Sync, but that seemed to exacerbate the issue and the games I'd been testing would freeze up with no way to minimize it or shut it off unless I restarted my PC by holding the power button. Is this an issue with Proton, or does Linux Mint have some sort of equivalent to Windows' "Fullscreen Optimizations" feature?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!!!

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[Hopefully this is a little more legible 🫠 ]

rigid oxide
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Bumping this, still having issues even after switching over to the absolute latest drivers and ensuring that G-sync is shut off on the monitor itself

cerulean vigil
tight cedar
rigid oxide
# cerulean vigil Try seeing if the compositor isn't being disabled on ''General'' settings in Cin...

Tried this and hit “enabled”, but it seems to have done nothing - in addition for whatever reason whenever I manage to leave the window, whether it be via the terminal or the menu bar, the game window will run as normal - I’m pretty sure this is probably because I have an Nvidia GPU going off of some Reddit threads I scrolled through, and the problem won’t be solved until I can afford to switch GPUs

rigid oxide
tight cedar
# rigid oxide For the most part this only works with a handful of games it seems

Yes, it depends if they run DirectX internally and the hotkey translates properly. Still worth a try.
If you are having trouble with old games scaling to the modern resolution, it might run better with Wayland (or worse, you'll have to experiment). Mint Cinnamon has experimental Wayland support, you can only activate it by selecting the Wayland session at the login screen. You quit it by logging out and back in with the normal X11 session, but it is recommended to reboot first before getting back to X11.

rigid oxide
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Surprisingly pretty much all of the older game titles I own have little to no issues [i mean i guess not surprising exactly but still] - It's mainly the newer higher-end games like DooM Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077 and System Shock Remake that are having some trouble

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Are there any utilities for Nvidia that I might have to install outside of the drivers made available through Mint's Driver Manager?

rigid oxide
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I think I'd consider this "solved", sort of lol

Windowed seems to be the only way most/all games will run without freezing, as fullscreen is borked, so for games that struggled to start I just tinkered with their config files to run them at a rez lower than native [1440p for me]

So yeh, solution is just to get used to Windowed, not that it's that big of a deal lol

tight cedar
rigid oxide
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Lil updoot, this lil script someone told me about works like a charm, it basically runs a puny window over a fullscreen/borderless game which keeps the rendering pipeline from shutting off suddenly/freezing

It's called "Linux-Gaming-Ghost-Fix" or "Ghost_Runner.sh" by tkaway27, it's on Github

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All of the titles I previously had issues with run perfectly now :3