Xbindkeys doesn't work in-game

Hi Everyone!
I have the following annoying problem: It sometimes occur, that while I'm playing a game, it suddenly freezes and the lastly played sound is played all over again, while everything else is working (For example I can talk with my friends on skype). It wouldn't be so annoying, the bigger problem is, that I can't seem to exit from this state, unless I reboot the computer. (And in archlinux I can't even use Alt+SysRq to reboot, while I could use it in ubuntu, where the exact same problem happened)
I would like to ask for help in actually two slightly different problems. One of them would be to make this freeze disappear, but in actuality it doesn't happen as often.(Even though, I would like this problem solved as well) My bigger problem is ,that I can't seem to do anything about this freeze, except for physical solutions. As I mentioned above, the magic sysrq doesn't work (to my surprise), I can't seem to change to terminal mode with (Ctrl+)Alt+Fn, and the fact that I can continue talking on skype simply drives me crazy. So what I tried to do against it is to use xbindkeys (I am using dwm as my window manager, and I've thought that it might be the source of the problem) to kill the X server. (As I think the problem might be somewhere there) But even if it is not the problem, it doesn't do a thing, while I am in-game, even though it does work in dwm. I think it is due to the fact, that games are make up a totally different type of window, but I couldn't find any information about this (and I 'm kind of curious:) )
About the other part of the problem, I am not sure about the cause. What I can think of is video driver problem or sound card problem (but I should still be able to use magic sysrq and (Ctrl+)Alt+Fn in these cases.)
Thank you everybody, who read my kind of long post, and even more thanks to those who solve it!
Florian
UI: One more thing to note is that I can't remember a case, when this freeze happened, while I didn't use skype. So it might be connected to skype.
Last edited by FloriOn (2015-01-01 18:56:42)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_shortcuts
Once you set up the magic sysrq keys, you need to look at the journal of a frozen session.

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