Hello,
I have a Ryzen 7 9700x, Nvidia 3070 and 64gb of Ddr5 ram. Whenever I go to a loading screen to change areas in a graphically intensive game the game will randomly cut out and I will get a black screen. I’m not sure why this happens. This has happened on every version of Linux i’ve used. Should I just give up and switch to AMD or are there solutions for this? I have a feeling it’s the new drivers that were released for Nvidia in September.
Can you please share a screenshot or short video to show the issue?
I will get a video of this either later today or tomorrow. The thing is it’s really unpredictable and only happens sometimes. It’s usually when I fast travel in Assassin’s Creed or when I hit a loading screen in Remnant II. Basically any time the game has to load something big.
I think your graphics stack might be crashing - I had an issue with GTX1080 where playing Squad would sometimes lock-up my whole system with a black screen (I’d still hear audio, but everything would be dead and unresponsive - I couldn’t even cycle color profile on my backlit LED keyboard) and when it would come back it would have kicked me out of my GNOME session on to the login screen… if I’d check the proccess list I’d still see my previous session and the zombie processes of Steam and Squad. Digging into this pointed to VRAM getting exceeded and some discussions about how some games under proton can’t properly detect HW resources (like max available VRAM), not just that, because of running through Proton would also add some overhead, further limiting available resources - I tried to clamp max VRAM for Proton via launch parameters but that only made it worse. I also had better success by hiding nvidia GPU in most cases oppose to exposing it more via the launch params.
In the end, however, that GPU started showing age more and more and I eventually upgraded to an AMD GPU, which, by default had more VRAM than any nvidia GPU in my budget range with only 8GB.
This completely checks out with what I was experiencing and makes complete sense. I’ll look at getting a new graphics card.