Black screen when entering full screen

Hello,
Since I switched to my new monitor, going full screen in some apps causes a black screen. I unchecked Full Screen in Desktop Effects but the problem persists.

Applications tested :

  • VLC : The video plays perfectly in windowed mode but when switching to full screen the screen goes black.
  • Minecraft : Same
  • Discord : Same when playing video within discord.
  • Brave : no black screen at all

While playing a video in VLC, continuously moving the mouse cursor prevents black screen even in full screen, but as soon as I stop moving, the screen goes black.

This problem does not occur on Windows 10 (I have a dual boot).

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
  Kernel: 5.16.14-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
    root=UUID=dbff8a7b-2520-4c24-9422-0b54483ac510 rw quiet
    resume=UUID=bf16a42e-1692-40c3-b7dc-33fd04561dff udev.log_priority=3
  Console: pty pts/2 wm: kwin_wayland DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: N/A
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME H670-PLUS D4 v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0412 date: 09/29/2021
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.37 GiB used: 5.02 GiB (32.6%)
  Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB slots: 4 EC: None max-module-size: 16 GiB
    note: est.
  Device-1: Controller0-ChannelA-DIMM0 size: No Module Installed
  Device-2: Controller0-ChannelA-DIMM1 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2600 MT/s
    actual: 3600 MT/s type: DDR4 detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits
    total: 64 bits manufacturer: Crucial Technology
    part-no: BL8G36C16U4B.M8FE1 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: Controller1-ChannelA-DIMM0 size: No Module Installed
  Device-4: Controller1-ChannelA-DIMM1 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2600 MT/s
    actual: 3600 MT/s type: DDR4 detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits
    total: 64 bits manufacturer: Crucial Technology
    part-no: BL8G36C16U4B.M8FE1 serial: <filter>
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400 socket: LGA1700 bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Alder Lake family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151) stepping: 5
    microcode: 0xF
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 480 KiB desc: d-6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 7.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB
    L3: 18 MiB desc: 1x18 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1485 high: 4115 min/max: 800/5600 base/boost: 3960/4400
    scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 1.1 V
    ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 1200 2: 1108 3: 1152 4: 1171 5: 2444 6: 4115
    7: 1652 8: 937 9: 915 10: 901 11: 1090 12: 1145 bogomips: 59916
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2 bts
    cat_l2 cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault
    cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c
    flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp
    hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida
    intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor
    movbe movdir64b movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe
    pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts
    rdpid rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep serialize sha_ni smap
    smep split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall
    tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip
    vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
    xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 24 [Radeon RX 6400 / 6500 XT] vendor: XFX driver: amdgpu
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:743f class-ID: 0300
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.22.1 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Monitor-1: XWAYLAND1 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: ASUS VG249 serial: <filter>
    built: 2021 res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2
    size: 530x300mm (20.9x11.8") diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  OpenGL:
    renderer: AMD BEIGE_GOBY (DRM 3.44.0 5.16.14-1-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Navi 21 HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT]
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.14-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
    v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:467f rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.57 TiB used: 2.13 TiB (46.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Sabrent model: N/A
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: RKT343.4 temp: 27.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 5d 10h cycles: 33
    read-units: 348,874 [178 GB] written-units: 677,455 [346 GB]
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD Elements 25A1 drive model: WD40NMZW-11GX6S1
    family: Elements / My Passport (USB, AF) size: 3.64 TiB block-size:
    physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD
    rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> drive serial: <filter> rev: 1018
    drive rev: 01.01A01 temp: 30 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 65d 16h cycles: 545
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 736.66 GiB size: 724.09 GiB (98.29%)
    used: 74.48 GiB (10.3%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
    maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A uuid: dbff8a7b-2520-4c24-9422-0b54483ac510
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 25.5 MiB (8.5%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
    maj-min: 259:1 label: NO_LABEL uuid: 836F-0C2A
  ID-3: /run/media/romain/R0M1-HD raw-size: 2.08 TiB
    size: 2.08 TiB (100.00%) used: 1.38 TiB (66.6%) fs: exfat block-size: 4096 B
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: R0M1-HD uuid: 68B7-E88C
  ID-4: /run/media/romain/a3799940-c790-43c3-b316-a8a261cb4c56
    raw-size: 1.56 TiB size: 1.54 TiB (98.36%) used: 694 GiB (44.1%) fs: ext4
    block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
    uuid: a3799940-c790-43c3-b316-a8a261cb4c56
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 label: swap
    uuid: bf16a42e-1692-40c3-b7dc-33fd04561dff
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A
    uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 199.98 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: F0D6482CD647F180
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 16mA
    chip-ID: 0b05:19af class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Corsair Lighting Node CORE type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 50mA
    chip-ID: 1b1c:0c1a class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 1-10:4 info: ASMedia ASM1074 High-Speed hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1
    speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 174c:2074 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-12:5 info: Chesen Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a81:0101 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-13:6 info: Mad Catz Catz R.A.T.3 Mouse type: Mouse
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0738:1703 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-7:2 info: Western Digital Elements / My Passport
    type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s
    power: 896mA chip-ID: 1058:25a1 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Hub-4: 2-10:3 info: ASMedia ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
    speed: 5 Gb/s power: 8mA chip-ID: 174c:3074 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
    mem: 52.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 392 Uptime: 1h 58m wakeups: 55 Init: systemd v: 250
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1527
  lib: 389 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.13
mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

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Informations de prise en charge sur KWin :
Les informations suivantes doivent ĂȘtre utilisĂ©es lorsqu'une demande d'aide est effectuĂ©e sur « https://forum.kde.org ».
Il s'agit de fournir des informations complémentaires sur l'instance actuellement lancée,
les options utilisées, le pilote OpenGL et les effets actifs.
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==========================

Version
=======
KWin version: 5.24.3
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Qt compile version: 5.15.3
XCB compile version: 1.14

Operation Mode: Xwayland

Build Options
=============
KWIN_BUILD_DECORATIONS: yes
KWIN_BUILD_TABBOX: yes
KWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES: yes
HAVE_X11_XCB: yes
HAVE_EPOXY_GLX: yes
HAVE_WAYLAND_EGL: yes

X11
===
Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
Vendor Release: 12201000
Protocol Version/Revision: 11/0
SHAPE: yes; Version: 0x11
RANDR: yes; Version: 0x14
DAMAGE: yes; Version: 0x11
Composite: yes; Version: 0x4
RENDER: yes; Version: 0xb
XFIXES: yes; Version: 0x50
SYNC: yes; Version: 0x31
GLX: yes; Version: 0x0

Decoration
==========
Plugin: org.kde.breeze
Theme: 
Plugin recommends border size: None
Blur: 0
onAllDesktopsAvailable: true
alphaChannelSupported: true
closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu: false
decorationButtonsLeft: 0, 2
decorationButtonsRight: 6, 3, 4, 5
borderSize: 0
gridUnit: 10
font: Noto Sans,10,-1,0,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallSpacing: 2
largeSpacing: 10

Platform
==========
Name: DRM
Active: true
Atomic Mode Setting on GPU 0: true

Cursor
======
themeName: breeze_cursors
themeSize: 24

Options
=======
focusPolicy: 0
xwaylandCrashPolicy: 
xwaylandMaxCrashCount: 3
nextFocusPrefersMouse: false
clickRaise: true
autoRaise: false
autoRaiseInterval: 0
delayFocusInterval: 0
shadeHover: false
shadeHoverInterval: 250
separateScreenFocus: false
activeMouseScreen: true
placement: 6
focusPolicyIsReasonable: true
borderSnapZone: 10
windowSnapZone: 10
centerSnapZone: 0
snapOnlyWhenOverlapping: false
rollOverDesktops: true
focusStealingPreventionLevel: 1
operationTitlebarDblClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonLeftClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonMiddleClick: 5015
operationMaxButtonRightClick: 5014
commandActiveTitlebar1: 0
commandActiveTitlebar2: 28
commandActiveTitlebar3: 2
commandInactiveTitlebar1: 4
commandInactiveTitlebar2: 28
commandInactiveTitlebar3: 2
commandWindow1: 7
commandWindow2: 8
commandWindow3: 8
commandWindowWheel: 28
commandAll1: 10
commandAll2: 3
commandAll3: 14
keyCmdAllModKey: 16777250
condensedTitle: false
electricBorderMaximize: true
electricBorderTiling: true
electricBorderCornerRatio: 0.25
borderlessMaximizedWindows: false
killPingTimeout: 5000
hideUtilityWindowsForInactive: true
compositingMode: 1
useCompositing: true
hiddenPreviews: 1
glSmoothScale: 2
glStrictBinding: false
glStrictBindingFollowsDriver: true
glPreferBufferSwap: 101
glPlatformInterface: 2
windowsBlockCompositing: true
latencyPolicy: 
renderTimeEstimator: 

Screen Edges
============
desktopSwitching: false
desktopSwitchingMovingClients: false
cursorPushBackDistance: 1x1
timeThreshold: 150
reActivateThreshold: 350
actionTopLeft: 0
actionTop: 0
actionTopRight: 0
actionRight: 0
actionBottomRight: 0
actionBottom: 0
actionBottomLeft: 0
actionLeft: 0

Screens
=======
Multi-Head: no
Active screen follows mouse:  yes
Number of Screens: 1

Screen 0:
---------
Name: HDMI-A-1
Geometry: 0,0,1920x1080
Scale: 1
Refresh Rate: 144013
Adaptive Sync: automatic

Compositing
===========
Compositing is active
Compositing Type: OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: AMD
OpenGL renderer string: AMD BEIGE_GOBY (DRM 3.44.0, 5.16.14-1-MANJARO, LLVM 13.0.1)
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.3.7
OpenGL platform interface: EGL
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
Driver: Unknown
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 4.6
GLSL version: 4.60
Mesa version: 21.3.7
Linux kernel version: 5.16.14
Direct rendering: Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders:  yes
Texture NPOT support:  yes
Virtual Machine:  no
OpenGL 2 Shaders are used

Loaded Effects:
---------------
zoom
kwin4_effect_login
kwin4_effect_sessionquit
kwin4_effect_logout
slidingpopups
kwin4_effect_windowaperture
colorpicker
desktopgrid
slide
screenshot
kwin4_effect_scale
kwin4_effect_fadingpopups
kwin4_effect_frozenapp
kwin4_effect_squash
kwin4_effect_morphingpopups
kwin4_effect_maximize
kwin4_effect_dialogparent
highlightwindow
presentwindows
blur
contrast
screenedge
startupfeedback
kscreen
screentransform

Currently Active Effects:
-------------------------
blur
contrast

Effect Settings:
----------------
zoom:
zoomFactor: 1.2
mousePointer: 0
mouseTracking: 0
focusTrackingEnabled: false
textCaretTrackingEnabled: false
focusDelay: 350
moveFactor: 20
targetZoom: 1

kwin4_effect_login:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_login
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_sessionquit:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_sessionquit
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_logout:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_logout
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

slidingpopups:
slideInDuration: 150
slideOutDuration: 250

kwin4_effect_windowaperture:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_windowaperture
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

colorpicker:

desktopgrid:
zoomDuration: 300
border: 10
desktopNameAlignment: 0
layoutMode: 0
customLayoutRows: 2
usePresentWindows: true

slide:
duration: 500
horizontalGap: 45
verticalGap: 20
slideDocks: false
slideBackground: true

screenshot:

kwin4_effect_scale:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_scale
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_fadingpopups:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_fadingpopups
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_frozenapp:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_frozenapp
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_squash:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_squash
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_morphingpopups:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_morphingpopups
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_maximize:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_maximize
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_dialogparent:
pluginId: kwin4_effect_dialogparent
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

highlightwindow:

presentwindows:
layoutMode: 0
showCaptions: true
showIcons: true
doNotCloseWindows: false
ignoreMinimized: false
accuracy: 20
fillGaps: true
fadeDuration: 150
showPanel: true
leftButtonWindow: 1
rightButtonWindow: 2
middleButtonWindow: 0
leftButtonDesktop: 2
middleButtonDesktop: 0
rightButtonDesktop: 0

blur:

contrast:

screenedge:

startupfeedback:
type: 1

kscreen:

screentransform:


Loaded Plugins:
---------------
kwin5_plugin_colord
kwin5_plugin_krunner
kwin5_plugin_nightcolor
kwin5_plugin_screencast

Available Plugins:
------------------
kwin5_plugin_colord
kwin5_plugin_krunner
kwin5_plugin_nightcolor
kwin5_plugin_screencast

PS : English is not my first language, so ask for details if unclear.

Disabling FreeSync on my monitor seems to solve this problem.

EDIT: After further testing, you CAN disable FreeSync on your monitor but you MUST set Adaptive sync to never.

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