NOTE: I have had a stroke three years ago, and have some brain-damage, thus I am a perpetual newbie.

I have had a problem with a particular game for about one year. The game is the Linux version of Ryzom. It is an MMORPG that has been around for about 10 years and it is based out of, I think, France.

Now, I have two monitors, a proprietary NVIDIA driver, and the video card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650. It runs on an 8-core processor (AMD FX 8350) and it is currently running under Debian Linux 3.16-2-amd64, 12GB of memory, and 5GB of swap space. I am currently running under 340.24, but I have also used 340.32,
343.13, and 343.22.

Here is the problem. It seems to me that my video driver crashes while playing, it reverts to running on a single monitor, and then I restart the game and *sometimes* after that, it runs fine, and sometimes the video driver crashes again, repeatedly.

I have used different versions of the video driver, to no avail. I have set the driver to use a single monitor, to no avail. I have used kernel versions 3.14-2-amd64 and 3.2.0-4, to no avail.

Also, before I play that particular game, I need to poweroff my computer and use xfce or fluxbox as my windows manager, as I have compositing on KDE, and compositing does not work well with Ryzom.

Like I have said, I think it a problem with my video driver, but could also be a problem with my kernel. However, I do not think anyone else in the Ryzom community has this problem that I have.

Also, this only occurs when running Ryzom, I have no problem running Steam games, warzone2100, 0AD, Sauerbraten, Nexuiz, or any other games.

If you need some more questions to help me diagnose this problem, please ask.

the way you describe it. it's the game causing the crashes, not the driver...?

or, some combination of hard/software simply doesn't work out.

try some settings in ryzom, or in nvidia-settings, try to reduce the load on the graphic card.

btw, looks like a nice game, installing now!

Thank you, I will give it a try.