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CS:GO Screen flickering upon loadup and cannot focus game

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6590 · opened 2019-10-16 by Hirora · updated 2026-07-19 · 2 comments · github
HHirora 2019-10-16 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Oct 2 2019, at 18:45:57
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Upon loading up CS:GO, my left primary screen, where CS:GO should load, rightfully turns black as if it is beginning to load. However, my secondary screen begins to flicker white uncontrollably; I believe this is the game attempting to load up my brightness setting, which, when the game used to run fine, would make both monitors brighter, like that white overlay.

Eventually, the game seems to load with the usual "CS:GO Has Stopped Responding", which I should just click "Wait" on, which would then let me play. However, now, I cannot select either option and the menu quickly disappears. It now seems as if the game is open, as it is displaying, but I cannot interact with any menus- the game seems unfocused. When I go to the taskbar and click on CS:GO, it seems to refocus, but now offsets CS:GO's display slightly and when I hover my mouse where the elements would usually be, I can hear the hover noise, so the game is focused, but the game has no visual display apart from what is stuck on my screen.

This is what the game looks like after this has finished and I try to focus:
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Steps for reproducing this issue:

I am unaware how this behaves on other systems, but this is how I reproduce the issue:

  1. Open CS:GO
  2. Try to focus CS:GO after it "loads"
  3. Game will have no display
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-10-16 github

Hello @Hirora, this issue is already being tracked at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/2187. Closing as a duplicate.

You should be able to confirm by temporarily using any other DE.

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