Full screen games fail

I was playing Saurbraten today, and after about 5-10 minutes the game exited full screen mode and froze. I couldnt get my mouse back from it either, so I had to reboot. Most of my other full screen games do the same thing, except for forcing me to reboot. any suggestions?

Uh, guys? I really need a fix for this.

Post your graphic card specifications. Could be a driver issue. Maybe it's only your graphic card,your drivers that are causing this, or some other unknown ailment.

Here is a question: do the games work perfect when not in full-screen mode?

I have an ATI graphics card, have no idea how to get specs for ya tho. All games Ive played that are not in full screen mode work fine, yes.

1. Try disable compiz

metacity --replace

1. Disable screensaver and powersaving mode

Hmm, ok. Lets see if its fixed now.

note I have change the code in my previous post, wrong command (havn't got my coffee yet).

Entering that code into terminal disabled my keyboard and removed the boarders from everything lol, had to restart. Saurbraten is still at it, btw.

Did you tried with the other command, as I stated above the first one was wrong.

No, tryed updated command.

Woo, AI, your brilliant. I used the GUI interface to find compiz and turn it off, and now saurbraten works perfectly. Just finished a 40-60 minute play session lol.

That's the real fix - I will edit/reply after posting a script I created for nexuiz. You will merly need to change one line in the script to get Saurbraten to work.

Edit: Heres the link to the thread. Be sure to read the whole thing, as it may not appear at first glance that it will work for other games. Note that simply disabling gnome-screensaver was the trick that did it for me, so I did not include the command ``` metacity --replace

Here you go:
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6319479#post6319479](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6319479#post6319479)