Fullscreen games show a black screen, same with Big Picture mode

steamclosed AMD driversreviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2967 · opened 2013-11-05 by aleksander13 · updated 2017-09-29 · 4 comments · github

Aaleksander13 2013-11-05 github

I can't play any game, unless I play them in window mode. But even then, it lags horribly. I used all the drivers available in the Additional Drivers setting, but to no effect. I tried both the stable and the beta versions of the drivers from the AMD website, but that didn't help either. Here are my specs. Help?

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Family: 0x10
CPU Model: 0x6
CPU Stepping: 0x3
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3705 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Unsupported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
elementary OS Luna (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-51-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11103000
X Window Manager: Gala
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2013-10-23

Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 6570

Driver Version:  4.2.12172 Compatibility Profile Context 13.25.18
OpenGL Version: 4.2
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x6759
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1366 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
Primary Display Size: 16.14" x 9.06"  (18.50" diag)
                                        41.0cm x 23.0cm  (47.0cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: VIA VT1705

Memory:
RAM: 5970 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 80470 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 71187 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Tue Nov 5 20:44:42 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20131105224428_23.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-45f32aac-b390-44d3-b38e-810322131105''

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-11-05 github

Other than confirming that it's very likely an issue with your video drivers, as you seem to have already guessed, there isn't a lot of specific information we can give. If you run the games outside of Steam is there a problem? If so you'll need to reexamine your video driver setup or see if there's some AMD help.

Aaleksander13 2013-11-06 github

Don't have any games outside of steam, although whenever I go fullscreen on youtube, instead of the video I get a blue screen, but I can hear the audio. That only happens with Google Chrome, though, Midori or Firefox don't have these issues.

I also heard this can happen because of missing libraries. Anyway, can you recommend other driver versions that might work? On Ubuntu I didn't have these issues, although I got low fps in games, so my best bet would be those missing libraries.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-11-06 github

I don't have any specific suggestions for you. If you're running a driver from AMD's web site you might want to check with AMD to see if they know about the issue.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-09-29 github

Closing as general video driver quality from 2013 is no longer relevant.

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