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How to troubleshoot game fullscreen issue (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 days ago by ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Hello, I'm relatively new to linux and was wondering what steps I need to take to troubleshoot an issue I started having with one of my games? This is in part asking for help but also a general 'how do I approach things like this in the future so I don't waste people's time'

I don't know what all information I need to include about my system. To start I'm using Arch btw, KDE Plasma, Wayland, on a Framework 16 with the AMD Radeon 780M built in gpu.

My problem is at some point between when I last played the remastered Life is Strange about a month ago and now the fullscreen option broke. As far as I can tell the game appears to be running but when I'm in game it visually looks frozen. I can still do things like move my cursor around, navigate menus, etc. I get sound fine and if I alt-tab out then in the screen will be updated to the new menu but frozen from there. Windowed and borderless windowed work as expected.

I noticed a general vibe of 'try switching to X11' when it comes to things like this so I've done that and it does appear to work here. So while it is a good workaround I would still prefer to know how to either fix the issue when using Wayland or where I need to go and what info I need to provide to make a bug report.

Thank you for any help!

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[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I'd suggest trying Gamescope in your particular case

I've found it helps in similiar cases so whenever I face something like that I try that first

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I have always had issues with KDE Plasma. On a dual monitor desktop setup, games would either open full screen on the secondary monitor, or an errant click would lead to them dropping out of full screen in a way that was unrecoverable without restarting the game. I had a much better experience with Gnome on that front, and my experience with Hyprland has been perfect. I can swap my game between any number of workspaces and full screen it with super+F.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I had the opposite problem than you. Games would work fine on Wayland but on x11 due to my laptop setup (discrete nvidia, AMD iGPU) games would do pretty much the same thing. if I toggled/tabbed away from a game for more than a couple minutes going back to the game would result in a black screen or just show the desktop but the game itself would still be running and not frozen.

For almost a year I would just trouble shoot it off and on but figured I just had to settle using wayland. Then a linux yuotuber named TheBlackDon suggested that I give gamescope another shot when running games through steam. I had tried it like a year ago and it didn't work so lastnight I decided meh I'll give it another shot. It worked. games work again on x11.

All I can suggest to you is try using gamescope. If it worked on my weird niche laptop setup there's a good chance it might work for you. OR if it works on x11 then maybe just use that? I wanted to get off wayland so bad because there's just so many annoyances getting stuff to work on wayland, even copy and pasting with some programs, that now I'm happy I can finally ditch it.