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Game stops responding after monitor blank/sleep: Proton 9 to 10 regression

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ValveSoftware/Proton#9015 · opened 2025-08-30 by ernstp · updated 2025-10-13 · 1 comments · github
Eernstp 2025-08-30 github

Many games have this problem where if you let the monitor go to sleep the game stops responding to input with Proton 10. This does not happen with Proton 9. You can also just lock the screen and wait for it to go blank to get the same behavior.
Against the Storm was a good example, but there are many many other games where this happens also.

My setup:
Arch
KDE Plasma 6.4.4 Wayland
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
2x monitors, one VRR, one standard.

Eernstp 2025-10-13 github

Hmm I couldn't reproduce this today! Just tried quickly with Proton Experimental.

Proton versions