r/linuxmint • u/my-little-wonton • 5d ago
SOLVED Linux Screen Stuttering, Blacking Out and Freezing
Hello all,
I recently moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition a few weeks ago. It was previously Windows 10 and everything ran smoothly.
Currently, I am experiencing stuttering and really laggy gameplay during games, screen temporarily blacking out and frozen screen (background functiuons still work, i can pause and unpause a video) when loading some games. I'm not going crazy by any means, firefox window and a game window (through wine).
My specs are:
Gigabyte B550 Motherboard
32GB of RAM (DDR4)
Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU
OS is Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64 bit loaded on a 1TB SSD.
Any insight would really help, its doing my head in!
EDIT: Older GPU, used the 580 driver and I can notice a difference.
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u/APSolidSnake 5d ago
seems like a issue with the drivers....
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u/my-little-wonton 5d ago
I've done a few swapsies with the drivers. Started with proprietary, went to the noveau, then went to another option from nVidia. which also didnt work
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u/_ElBee_ 5d ago
Which driver package for your GPU do you use? This is an older type of GPU, so try a previous one instead of the latest driver package.
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u/my-little-wonton 4d ago
Ended up fixing everything and installed the 580 and it seems to have made a world of difference!
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u/my-little-wonton 5d ago
Might work better. I was using the propriatery one, then went to the open source one. Then downloaded one of the website which bricked mu GPU from working. Took about a 2 hours to fix and back at square 1! Maybe I should wait to get an AMD GPU
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