Your screens have been stopped by the system

[compaq]

This only happened when I updated to Tahoe 16.0.1. I cannot use my second screen. It stays open for a while then stops with an error message: "Your screens have been stopped by the system. This can happen if the hard disk space is low. Please free up some space and re-enable the screens using switches in Displays tab"

I have 12gb space left so I don't think that's the issue. I can toggle the switch but it will happen again after some time. Sometimes I think it's crashing, I have to reopen the display link manager app.

I have already tried reinstalling and using the DisplayLink End User Cleaner. I've been using DisplayLink for the last 3 years and usually issues like this I'm just updating the app. Now I'm stuck with this issue and my second monitor is not usable.

[Szymon]

12GB of free disk space is often already low enough for macOS to stop selected processes to conserve resources. Please keep at least ~20GB of free disk space for macOS to maintain stability.

Regards,
Szymon

[chrishands]

I cleared 40GB of disk space, and I am still getting my screens randomly switched off.
Also using Tahoe, but this problem is only since updating DisplayLink Manager to 14.1.0

[Szymon]

Would you share a screenshot of Storage Settings window?

https://i.ibb.co/hzXy6Vd/Image-19-11-2025-at-14-44.png

Regards,
Szymon

[compaq]

I agree, I don't think it's the disk space. I used this for 3 years now, I've experienced full disk space and I did not encounter this issue. This issue also started when I updated to macOS 26.0.1 and also updated DisplayLink Manager to 14.1.0

You could take our word for it, we have no reason to lie about the disk space. I have 12gb, chris has 40gb disk space. I think it's kind of weird for an app to require a 20gb free space to function.

[bonykillery]

That sounds frustrating! Since you’ve already reinstalled and used the DisplayLink Cleaner, you might want to check that both your DisplayLink drivers and GPU drivers are fully updated, and that DisplayLink Manager has all the required macOS permissions (Screen Recording, Accessibility, Full Disk Access). Try disconnecting the second monitor, restarting your Mac, and reconnecting it. If the issue persists, testing on a new macOS user account can help determine if it’s a user-specific problem. If nothing works, it could be a compatibility issue with macOS 16.0.1, so contacting DisplayLink support with your system logs may provide a solution.

[Szymon]

You could take our word for it, we have no reason to lie about the disk space. I have 12gb, chris has 40gb disk space. I think it's kind of weird for an app to require a 20gb free space to function.

It's not the app requirement. It's the macOS requirement. If you see this message:

https://i.ibb.co/kgvsXQB0/Screenshot-2025-11-19-at-09-49-27.png

It is a result of macOS stopping apps due to low disk space and 12GB is definitely low for recent macOS versions.

Sorry to make you feel I'm suggesting dishonesty. My follow up requests are based on experience where a user had a lot of free disk space but this was total free disk space, while what matters is free disk space on the partition where the OS resides. Hope this context helps and I hope we will find a solution for your problem.

Regards,
Szymon

[james.garrett]

I have 28GB free and I'm getting this error message non stop, every few hours.

[gstilphen]

Just chiming in. This 100% has nothing to do with storage or MacOS triggering a low disk space alert. I have been dealing with it every few minutes, dramatically impacting my daily work and likely forcing me to seek an alternative dock that does not require display link. I haven’t cleaned out anything but still have 128GB left and my memory swap is only touching maybe ~15-20gb of that at any given moment. This only became an issue after the latest updates of DisplayLink.

[Szymon]

Hi gstilphen,

Please take a screenshot of storage settings window and post here
https://i.ibb.co/hzXy6Vd/Image-19-11-2025-at-14-44.png

Regards,
Szymon

[gstilphen]

Here are the storage settings as requested.

This is on a 2023 16” MacBook Pro with an M2 Max and 32GB physical memory running MacOS 26.1

4614

[Szymon]

Hi gstilphen,

Thanks for the image. Could you please raise your case following this article?
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/755301-how-to-report-macos-issues-to-displaylink

Please also include a link to this forum thread so I can identify it.

Regards,
Szymon

[jh2]

Similar story of here, I have plenty of storage and I keep getting the crash.

[chrishands]

Hi gstilphen,

Please take a screenshot of storage settings window and post here
https://i.ibb.co/hzXy6Vd/Image-19-11-2025-at-14-44.png

Regards,
Szymon

Why do you keep asking for this screenshot when multiple people have told you it's not storage and even given you free space figures? Also being ignored is the fact that this issue has surfaced since the recent update

[Szymon]

Hi chrishands,

We treat users individually, never putting everyone in the same bucket, as mentioned previously:

My follow up requests are based on experience where a user had a lot of free disk space but this was total free disk space, while what matters is free disk space on the partition where the OS resides. Hope this context helps and I hope we will find a solution for your problem


Regards,
Szymon

[markscottie]

Is there any news on this issue??? The same thing happens with previous versions of the software.

I am looking at ditching DisplayLink and going for a single ultra wide display

[Szymon]

Hi markscottie,

I encourage everyone to contact technical support following this article:
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/755301-how-to-report-macos-issues-to-displaylink

I believe we successfully troubleshoot all of such cases.

Regards,
Szymon

[Ronot]

Hi,

I'm running version 14.2.0 on Mac OS 26.1 and started having this issues today after I upgraded from 14.1 to 14.2. I deinstalled version 14.2 and reinstalled version 14.0, hopefully that fixes the issue


Just submitted the case as per the instructions. I Hope you can find a solution to this issue.

** UPDATE **
I'm running version 14.0 for a few hours now. The error has not reappeared. Happy for now

[Szymon]

Hi Ronot,

Thank you for your message and request.
To reiterate, based on our recent observations, macOS requires approximately 25 GB of free disk space to maintain stable operation.

Regards,
Szymon

[nDisplayLink]

Howdy Szymom,

Apparently, this issue is becoming serious and annoying. And it has been proven in my case as many others reported, it has nothing to do with Disk Space, as I have over 200GB of disk space and yet I am still experience the issue.

Many have sent you proof of that, yet you keep asking people to send you another proof. It is a waist of time and resources and frustrate us even further.

So, you either acknowledge that it is a n issue DisplayLink can't fix, so we can look for alternative product. Or Acknowledge the issue and start working and providing a fix we can use.

Thanks for understanding,

N.

QUOTE=Szymon;98988]Hi Ronot,

Thank you for your message and request.
To reiterate, based on our recent observations, macOS requires approximately 25 GB of free disk space to maintain stable operation.

Regards,
Szymon[/QUOTE]

[aresando]

Many have sent you proof of that, yet you keep asking people to send you another proof. It is a waist of time and resources and frustrate us even further.Hi

I have to mention here that freeing disk space indeed solved the problem for me. Apparently MacOS deletes the content of /tmp (and maybe other temp folders) much more often when the free space falls below a certain threshold, which I suspect is the amount of RAM on the computer.

How much memory does your computer have?

That said, I agree that the problem appeared suddenly with a certain version of DisplayLink, which could also investigate why it is not able to lock its own temp files (if the problem is indeed that it depends on them not being deleted by the OS)

[Szymon]

We are exploring ways of mitigating this ecosystem problem. We intend to deliver it in the next DisplayLink Manager version.

Meanwhile, please follow this FAQ: https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/2023766-macos-your-screens-have-been-stopped-by-the-syste

Regards,
Szymon