Games. Browser. screen off

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Hi. I would like to know why when I play a very graphic game, on ultra settings at 3440 x 1440, after minimizing the game I go to the browser, Mozilla or any other, then after some time the image goes out, the cooler on the video card stops and that’s it, silence. Only with the button I have to turn off and turn on the computer again. Is this a Linux thing?
And why does Firedragon not play in the browser, VKontakte music does not sing.

System:
Kernel: 6.15.4-zen2-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=c8bbe02c-bba7-4f75-b7b1-f58610a26c01 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.2 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.15.0
wm: kwin_wayland tools: avail: lxlock vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450M MORTAR MAX (MS-7B89) v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American
Megatrends LLC. v: 2.M0 date: 08/22/2024
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 2
level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701034
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB
desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB desc: 2x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3717 min/max: 558/4208 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave cores: 1: 3717 2: 3717 3: 3717
4: 3717 5: 3717 6: 3717 7: 3717 8: 3717 9: 3717 10: 3717 11: 3717 12: 3717
bogomips: 86397
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT
/ 6900 XT] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2
code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1,
Writeback-1 bus-ID: 28:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73bf class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-3 model: Mi monitor serial: <filter> built: 2024 res:
mode: 3440x1440 hz: 180 scale: 114% (1.15) to: 2991x1252 dpi: 108 gamma: 1.2
size: 797x334mm (31.38x13.15") diag: 882mm (34.7") modes: max: 3440x1440
min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.1.4-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6800 (radeonsi navi21
LLVM 20.1.6 DRM 3.63 6.15.4-zen2-1-zen) device-ID: 1002:73bf
memory: 15.62 GiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 13 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon RX 6800 (RADV NAVI21) driver: mesa radv v: 25.1.4-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:73bf surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 20.1.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.1.4-arch1.2 (LLVM
20.1.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl,lact wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 28:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2a:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: ASUSTek TUF GAMING H5/H7
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0b05:189c class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.15.4-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 22:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp34s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.47 TiB used: 1017.18 GiB (67.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: AMD Radeon model: R5MP120G8
size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: T1103F0L temp: 47.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:4 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD BLACK SN750 SE 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 711250WD temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 68.36 GiB size: 68.36 GiB (100.00%)
used: 20.43 GiB (29.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1000 MiB size: 998 MiB (99.80%)
used: 616 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 42.45 GiB size: 42.45 GiB (100.00%)
used: 24.34 GiB (57.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 68.36 GiB size: 68.36 GiB (100.00%)
used: 20.43 GiB (29.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 68.36 GiB size: 68.36 GiB (100.00%)
used: 20.43 GiB (29.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.54 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 55.0 C
mem: 54.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 888
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB used: 5.62 GiB (36.2%)
Processes: 522 Power: uptime: 37m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.19 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1786 pm: pacman pkgs: 1761 libs: 525 tools: octopi,pamac,paru
pm: flatpak pkgs: 25 Compilers: gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish
v: 4.0.2 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.38
Garuda (2.7.3-1):
System install date:     2025-06-25
Last full system update: 2025-07-02
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Failed units:
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First bios update
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450M-MORTAR-MAX/support
Think on right settings, after. (sec. + fast boot off, ahci, uefi, resizebar)

That’s more then one problem

Use the search option for the prob with firedragon. (inside the forum)

You should control what’s going on with the heat (fan + temp. inside case)
Use sensors or a gui to control.
(for sensors to use: open konsole command sensors-detect → yes for all → done.

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Well, not the same old version of bios. And this is what comes out. I bought a new 3440 monitor, update the motherboard bios. In the bios settings, if anything, everything is on default, only resizebar is enabled, supposedly it increases performance on amd. I think I should try installing the latest bios. Of course, when you launch the browser, the computer goes into standby almost immediately, but I can’t play normally without launching the browser. I read that this can be due to a bad display port, due to different refresh rates in the system and the game. But if with DP the cooler on the video card stopped, then with hdmi it starts howling like an airplane. It’s a pity that there are no programs to show the block load in games yet. Maybe there is not enough power, but it doesn’t throw out in tests, unlike games.
And I also hope it’s not because of crooked driver updates in Linux. Otherwise, I’ll have to install Windows for testing.

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I mean not, that this issue is a driver problem.
My testsystem..same cpu, only amd 6600 (gpu), msi X570s motherboard and current no issues with drivers.
Perhaps is it your powersupply or motherboard (voltage) or gpu, dp port, cable or what ever.
AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 Graphics recommended PSU 650W

But if you don’t take a look what’s going inside the case with the voltage, temperature, cooler then you are more unsuspecting.
Use sensors in the terminal to see what’s going if you open the browser, the game.
Install btop, hardinfo2 to become more knowledge.

hardinfo2
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only one example from hardinfo2 about the cpu voltage (motherboard)

Which game ?

which tests ?

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Games Kingdom come 2

OOCT power.

But I think I found the reason. It’s probably the mismatch between the game and system Hz. Or the fact that the wallpaper engine kde plugin works even when you play the game, thereby adding additional load to the video card. After all, it works differently in Linux than in Windows, where it stops during games. Here it continues to work. Previously, even during the game, the screen simply went dark, you don’t even need to minimize the game and go to the browser. So I thought about the wallaper engine plugin. But how beautiful it looks on such a screen, especially the nature, that I want to keep it instead of wallpaper. I’ve been playing for two days already in this resolution, ultra settings, under 100 fps, in the system it’s 180 Hz and nothing goes dark.
It seems I found a bug. I went to Wallpaper, download new modules. Clicked, expanded to full screen in 3440 resolution. In 1080p the same. Firstly, I can’t apply the new module, the Apply window is not visible. It is visible only if you minimize that window to the tray and hover the mouse over it. And I also can’t close that window with the cross. Because the window stretches and the close buttons go off the screen. When the Apply downloaded module button was hanging, the window could not be closed even in minimized mode. And my fps in kingdom come 2 dropped. Previously, I played at 50 fps in this resolution. But now after kernel or driver updates, sometimes I go to the menu during the game, crash, return to the game and then at any settings in this resolution 8 fps is stable. You reduce the resolution, the fps increases. For everything to return to normal, you need to restart the game.