Tried to play a game on KDE Plasma and now I have a black screen

aonine · 2024-07-28 10:27

I was trying to play Team Fortess 2 in Vulkan mode, sadly when the game starts just freeze and crashed, then I open tty, killed the game process and reboot, when I login again on my user I can't see anything just a black screen, I can listen notification sounds and some others things but just black screen, it works again when I connect a second monitor but when I unplug it the black screen is back, what happened? This not happen in others users or anothe DE, just in KDE Plasma X11
I'm using a setup with Nvidia and Intel
I'm using 535 from the installation setup
I'm using right now two monitors at same time but when I unplug my second, the main turns black again, this not happen in trinity tho

What should I do? I've reinstalled KDE Plasma and I don't have any fix

aonine · 2024-08-01 13:58

Any way to fix this? Or at least migration my data to another user?

hchiper · 2024-08-02 06:22

I don't have the solution, but I typed "Team Fortess 2 linux black screen" in my favorite search engine and I got a lot of hits, including some marked as [FIXED] or [SOLVED]. You could do the same and search in these pages what is useful / relevant for you.
Don't hesitate to post back here if you find the solution.

aonine · 2024-08-02 06:29

These post talk about the game, I'm not searching for fix the game issue because I found it before, I'm posting this here because when this issue broken my KDE Plasma and now it doesn't work fine anymore, like I said, when I log in it there's not display, just black screen and it just works again with a second monitor, the only thing I found out is plasma panel is broken for the first display but for the second one is like " fix it for the moment"

hchiper · 2024-08-02 07:43

Sorry, there was a confusion in my mind on what was "this" in your question "Any way to fix this?"

Regarding the black screen, you can try this in Plasma: go to "Display and Screen" in "System Configuration" (not sure the names are correct, my system is in French) and check the configuration of your two monitors (which one is 1 and which one is 2) as well as what is displayed on each one (one of the options is to display... nothing!).

crosscourt · 2024-08-02 17:23

Team Fortress 2 update for Vulkan is broken and so far not much has changed. You could try using the Legacy Open GL setting as that has worked for many. X11 is definitely the right choice as TF2 also has Wayland issues.

I second the comments above about checking the display settings.

Last edited by crosscourt (2024-08-02 18:11)

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#1 2024-07-28 10:27

Tried to play a game on KDE Plasma and now I have a black screen

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Re: Tried to play a game on KDE Plasma and now I have a black screen

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