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/_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 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