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Try opening the Nvidia control panel, turn off Force Composition Pipeline. I had this same issue.
You comment led me down another rabbit hole: I don't have that setting in my control panel, and apparently am missing several whole sections. An extra detail: I'm using a laptop with both integrated and discrete graphics. I tried launching a game and seeing if more settings would show up, but that didn't seem to work. Apparently they are only consistent with an attached monitor.
You certain? You should have it. I have a very similar setup to you. Nvidia 3070, PopOs on a laptop with Gnome. Its kinda hidden in the app. There is an advanced button that hides the option.
I gave it another look after you comment. I cannot find the advanced button. There really are not many user interactive options in my menu, except in the profile space =/. I've seen other report the menus missing as well.
Either it hiding in plain sight, and I am derp'ing hard, it's so buried I can't find it, or it's completely missing on my end.
You could try using Gamescope to contain the game. I'm on Sway and some full screen games can confuse it on multiple monitors, this usually fixes it.
gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 %command%
I'll give it a try. I've seen as a solution to multiple problems, so probably a good tool to learn.
Might be game specific. I don't know how to solve the issue but maybe you could try opening the game in a different virtual desktop and switching desktops and see if that causes it. Or press the meta key and see if that causes it too
This has been working so far! Thanks for the suggestion. (I've had the same problem in more than 1 game).
Most probably graphics / nividia issue. But not a general issue, related to the configuration or hardware or something.
For most such cases when you can't figure out anything, it's generally a good idea to ask in your distro's support forum. There are people who can usually help you debug a few things. It doesn't always solve your problem, but you can get some possible pointers.
I’ll give it a try. I’ve seen as a solution to multiple problems, so probably a good tool to learn.
Thanks. I think this it best general answer (don't solve my specific problem, but for sure answers how to best get help.)
Not an explanation or proper fix, but running the games through Gamescope might fix it by side effect. In gamescope the game would never lose focus and so shouldn't have problems resuming afterwards.
Does this happen when running the game in fullscreen mode aswell as in bordless? AFAIK, when u launch a game in fullscreen more resources are given to this specific resource/game. Therefore, when trying to switch windows/tabs the system will hang more easily as it takes more computing to load the desktop again.
Take this with a grain of salt I'm no expert. Would also be interesting to see what specs your computer is running. Personally used to have these sort of issues back when I had games running in an HDD, but since moving to SSDs+new higher specs its not really an issue anymore.
From my many decades of windows gaming, I always run in borderless window mode if I think I need/want to tab out.
I'm running on a laptop, but it's fairly high end: 13th gen i9, 4070, 64GB of RAM, and only a SSD.
It could be a game issue. I remember a lot of games had issues with alt-tabbing back when I used windows. It could also be a Wine issue. I had one game that started freezing when alt-tabbing after a Wine update a couple months ago. Rolling back to the previous version fixed it.
sudo dmesg -Tw
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