There was a patch out out 5 days ago, specifically for black screen crashes, on Nvidia for windows. That’s all I’ve been getting for a few days now. I’m pretty sure it needs to automatically incorporate them because it’s not installing right from a USB and I don’t think I even get an option to install them myself. Fingers f***ing crossed that I can overclock my card after all this but times look promising… Correct me if I’m wrong but I think my 3080 can’t use Cachy until this is patched
Seems like Nobara is in the exact same boat, and that’s actually why I think this is the problem. On Nobara, you download your latest Nvidia drivers last, separate from everything else. And doing so is what f***ed up my pc when I tried to use something else. Cachy kernels slap for gaming. I’d like to continue here
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the black screen only affects 50 series cards. There is a multi monitor bug that causes black screens that I think was patched. Do a search for the thread here. You may need to update through the terminal to fix it.
Update through the terminal… From the live USB booted environment?
Also, 572.65 notes from Nvidia (6 days ago):
This hotfix addresses the following issue:
- PC may boot to a black screen when connected via DisplayPort with certain monitors [5131002]
Here is more about it.
New Nvidia GeForce driver addresses RTX 50-series GPU black screen issues
Update through the terminal… From the live USB booted environment?
I believe that is what was done. I would do a search for the thread for more details.
You should be fine running CachyOS as is straight off the installer without any manual intervention or additional steps right now. Are you having issues with your system currently? I’ve been running on my RTX 3060 so same family of card just a little slower than yours with 2 - 2560x1440 gaming displays at 180Hz using display port just fine on CachyOS since last November and haven’t had any issues at all with any of the nvidia drivers cachyos provides by default. The only issue I have had was several weeks ago and had to do with the 6.13 kernel when it first started being used, I had a lot of system lockups during high disk utilization periods that would freeze the whole system requiring a hard reset to reboot, but those have all settled down over time now). I even plug in my 4K TV via HDMI occasionally when I want to do a little gaming on the big screen. Never have had any nvidia video issues at all while gaming or otherwise the cachyos team is on the ball with keeping on top of the patches needed to keep things running smoothly.
I’m pretty sure now that it’s my janky monitor… Actually I might be able to swap it to a different one just to get things running… But then again it’s probably gonna default to the same crap when I switch back.
When I switched back to Windows, I noticed that it was counting as two monitors. Dragging the cursor to one edge just let it disappear into the abyss. When I fired up “xrandr” on a fresh Nobara install, it reported some ~7000x2160 resolution. This monitor only does 4k @ 144hz via two 8k capable DP cables. I’m pretty sure that has a lot to do with it. That full-steam mode also does not work on Linux in my prior experience. And the sudden issues are probably also tied to the 570 drivers, cuz I had no issues like this till that update, with any OS. Lil interesting thing is that the “abyss edge” (where it’s like attempting to place my cursor on an imaginary screen) was on the opposite side, compared to Windows, when one attempt at installing Nobara led to me having the black screen but with a cursor. Although just shuffling my mouse straight left or straight right doesn’t make it show up when I’m at the usual black screen. Oh yeah, idk if I mentioned here but Nobara is pretty much the same shit.
So, uh… Any idea how to set limitations on multi-monitor setups without having them plugged in?.. See on Nobara it works until I do their update and then reboot, but with Cachy, I haven’t gotten anything besides the live USB environment ever since I hit update for the 570 drivers. Maybe if I plug them both in then I can secure some settings from the 1080p one?