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
Its been a while sinse I’ve used plasma, I had the same issue but I was using nvidia at the time and nvidia has a tool to set refresh rate, screen size and a lot of other things, gsync/freesync being one of them. Now most monitors do have if gsync/freesync enabled an option to turn it off. but before you do that if you have other display port/ HDMI cables around then switching though them would be advantageous as youll avoid screen tearing
AMD has no such app. I wish it did. Also, I’ll be switching to another DP. Is she seems to be much better when I used an HDMI instead of dp