Killing Floor flickers and causes Window Manager issues after close

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1921 · opened 2013-02-20 by TheFrozenFire · updated 2013-02-20 · 2 comments · github

TTheFrozenFire 2013-02-20 github

I've been debugging a serious graphical issue that I've experienced with the game Killing Floor. Initially I thought it might have to do with the Steam Community Overlay, as the issue seemed to lessen after disabling it for the game, but I've found that the issue persists despite.

When launching Killing Floor, the producer's logo flickers constantly. In-game, the title menu often itself flickers in the same way. This seems to happen only when I've previously run the game during my Gnome session. Going into the Display menu in-game and switching to another resolution and then back resolves the flickering for that instance of the game.

After closing Killing Floor, my desktop manager (Gnome-Shell 3.4.1) is often completely compromised, itself flickering constantly, and windows drawing over each other in pieces, and the activities menu being practically inaccessible.

The only way to fix my desktop manager after running Killing Floor ends up being switching to another TTY and killing gnome-session. This means that I have to restart all of my running applications, and probably isn't good for the long-term viability of my Gnome installation.

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 3401 Mhz
    8 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (32 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.2.0-37-generic-pae
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11103000
    X Window Manager:  Mutter
    Steam Runtime Version:  <Runtime enabled>

Video Card:
    Driver:  Intel Open Source Technology Center Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2

    Driver Version:  3.0 Mesa 9.0
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x8086
    DeviceID:  0x162
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.77"  (23.98" diag)
                                            53.1cm x 29.9cm  (60.9cm diag)
    Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
    Audio device: Intel PantherPoint HDMI

Memory:
    RAM:  16062 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_CA.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  229981 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  102500 Mb

Installed software:

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TTele42 2013-02-20 github

I have not seen this issue with cinnamon 1.6.7 / Gnome 3.6.2 on nvidia graphics, possible intel driver issue?

Bbdeen-valve maintainer 2013-02-20 github

@TheFrozenFire Pretty sure this is some combinatoric between the game and the Intel driver. I wasn't able to reproduce the exact same issue you saw, but my resolution was definitely messed up when I exited Killing Floor. I tried this on hardware with a similar profile to the one you reported this against (Ivybridge, 3.0 Mesa 9.0).

My suggestion is to contact the makers of Killing Floor. They're definitely doing something that's not quite right here, the impact of which is more severe on this Intel video driver/card.

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