Solved Black screen in full screen games

This issue is only happening in a few of my games so far. If I'm playing in full screen my monitor will turn black and I can't see anything. The weird part is it only happens when I'm looking in certain directions or while I'm in the options menu. I can still hear the in game audio. If I switch to windowed mode the issue goes away, however, I encounter the same issues in windowed full screen. I've been looking all over for a fix, but haven't found much of anything. I'm playing on 1920x1080 which is the native resolution of my monitor. Also, I don't have VSYNC turned on.

I am using a two monitor setup. My main monitor is an Asus VG245H, and my secondary monitor is an Asus VS239H-P. This problem I'm having only happens when I'm playing the game on my main monitor. I tried it on my secondary monitor and had no issues. My main monitor is about a month old and my secondary is roughly 2 years old now.

I was on the newest recommended update for my graphics driver. I tried updating to the newest optional update which came out yesterday, and I still have the issue. I have also tried an older driver and encountered the issue again. I'm not really sure what to try at this point.



I just tried using DDU then reinstalled the newest recommended driver. I'm still encountering the problem, however. One thing I did notice though, is that when I was in safe mode to run DDU, my main monitor was black. Once I opened a program on my second monitor I was able to see the duplicated screen on the main monitor. I'm not sure if this was due to the lack of drivers, or if it is due to whatever is happening.


PC Specs:
Windows 10
ASRock H97 Anniversary
Intel i5-4460
MSI R9 390
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB - Main Drive
Western Digital Blue 1TB - Secondary Drive
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1

My main monitor is hooked up via HDMI, and my secondary monitor is hooked up via DVI. I tried hooking up my secondary monitor with the same HDMI from main and there were no full screen issues. I also tried a different HDMI on the main monitor, but still had the same issue. The only other port on my main monitor is VGA, which my graphics card does not have a port for. The main monitor also does not have a DVI, so I can't hook it up that way either.

I tried messing around a little with the refresh rate of the main monitor as it is capable of 75hz, although I didn't find anything there either. I don't think this is an issue, as I haven't been receiving any out of range messages, however, I figured it was worth noting.

As far as when the issue began, I am not too sure. There wouldn't have been any software changes other than downloading a couple games off of steam. I don't know for sure when it started, as the games it happens on I don't play very often. It's possible it started around the time I got the monitor, however, I'm not sure what defect in the monitor would cause it to be so specific in when it decides to go black.

Here is what it came up with.

I forgot all about checking that, however, even after disabling it, I still ran into the same issue.

Still no luck.

Thinking back, the first game that this started happening in was the one that actually downloaded that along with the game files. I thought it was weird, but just left it there. Sadly though, the problem is still occurring.

When I go into my Radeon settings and look under this monitor, it tells me that it is not supported. I knew that was a feature of this monitor when buying it, however, I never planned on actually using it so when I originally saw this it didn't bother me. I am hooked up via HDMI, which is all is required for AMD free sync. Could this potentially be part of the problem?

Edit: I have actually just figured out how to turn free sync on, and after doing so the problem still occurs. I'm turning it back off.

That's what I'm starting to think. It just seems like such a strange problem with how limited it actually is. Also, I know there is always the potential of defects, but it is a pretty new monitor.

Yeah, I'll just wait and see if anyone else has some ideas. I appreciate the help thus far, though.

I have come to realize a common occurrence when this actually happens. This screen only ever turns black, when the game I'm playing is dark. Basically, if what the game is displaying happens to be mostly black, it will cause my monitor to act like there is nothing to display. The options screen it's happening on is black, and it only ever happens when it is dark in the game.

I realized this when I was playing "The Forest" last night. It gets dark, and I can pull out a lighter to give myself light, however, every once in a while the lighter will go out. Every time it went out, I couldn't see anything as my screen was just black. I couldn't help but laugh at it, even though it is quite frustrating.

Also, I'm getting in contact with Asus, to see what they have to say on the matter. If anyone has any other ideas, I am all for it. If not, I'll come back and post whatever Asus offers me as a solution. Either way, I really do appreciate the help here. I posted on many other forums and received no answers. So for that, thank you.

Edit: I decided to just go to google, search black, save an all black picture, and open in, just to see if my monitor would do the same thing. What do you know, that's exactly what it did. My monitor just decides to display absolutely nothing, when most of the screen is black. I'm so confused.