Black screen for a few seconds after exiting fullscreen

Im not sure where to go with this issue. Or what is causing it, but I think its either KDE or an Nvidia problem. The problem started around Christmas, when VRR and new drivers and all that came out. I saw another user also had this issue around that time in discord chat for CachyOs.

I have an Nvidia RTX 4090, and 2x 4k screens.

The monitor im using is an PG42UQ, and it`s 120hz by default. It supports an OC that makes the screen go up to 138hz.

When I activate the 138hz, all fullscreen aplications makes the screen turn black for 2-4 seconds after exiting fullscreen. Then it comes back again. Like if I close youtube in fullscreen is an example to it. This is to everything that has an fullscreen.

This issue is not there, if I put my screen on 120hz automatic adaptive sync.

I tested 2 browsers, Brave and Firefox. Same issue on both.

But if I turn off adaptive sync to never on 138hz, the black screen goes away.

If I swap between 120hz and 138hz, my system hard crashes, so I need to push the reset button and reboot.

For me, its like it struggle to detect my hz in a way. After swapping to 120hz, it also detect my screen as an ultrawide, so i need to change it too 16:9.

Been so many major update past months, that I cant pinpoint what is causing the issue.

Had a new hard crash. So tried logging that as well under the nvidia-bug.report1.log.gz
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.4 MB)


nvidia-bug-report1.log.gz (827.6 KB)

I see more people struggle with this for some reason now in the community. I linked my post and some people comming forward with the same issues.

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links to discord posts and nvidia-bug-report.log.gz would definitely increase chances of someone ever looking into this ;-) Cheers!