Occasional Black Screens in KDE on Bazzite

11 Oct 2025

Occasional Black Screens in KDE on Bazzite

Running Bazzite version 42.20251002 (bazzite-dx-nvidia:stable), I would sometimes experience occasional black screen flickering in KDE, when switching applications or sometimes in the middle of full-screening an application (like a game). I fixed this by setting Adaptive Sync to Never. When I did this, some games would not show the full resolution list (since I’m at 150% scaling, it would only show up to 1440p on a 4k monitor) and letting legacy X11 applications manage their own scaling allowed me to solve this second issue.

KDE display settings in Bazzite
My display settings

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