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I lied, my game crashing issue is still not fixed. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Bronzor@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I few days ago I posted about my games freezing on my new pc here:

https://lemmy.ml/post/41956931

I thought my issue was an outdated motherboard bios and also having screen locking/sleep mode on. It appears that was wrong because I am still having the issue. I have come prepared this time though! I have several proton logs of games freezing up. Some of the logs are the game freezing and continuing, other logs are the gsne freezing and completely stopping.

I also had a weird error popup that would come up when enabling proton logs for cyberpunk. I put that image with the proton logs. I put in my journalctl with the most recent cyberpunk freeze/crash that happened as well.

I am beginning to think that it is a driver issue with my 5070ti. I found this post on the linux gaming subreddit that has many people expressing the same issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nn2d5e/games_freezing_randomly_until_i_alt_tab_into_the/

My overall concern is if this is a hardware issue rhat I need to get rma'd or just a linux issue.

Crash logs:

https://gofile.io/d/zft71K

Any help is appreciated!! Thank you all for your time!

EDIT: After much testing, my issue seems to be driver related. 5000 series drivers are just really buggy atm. Thank you all for your time and effort!

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Maybe do a ram test. I had weird crash issues on Linux that I didn't experience in windows for whatever reason. Turned out after a lot of blaming Linux, I had a stick of ram that was trash. I pulled out and now I have 16GB and no crashes instead of 32GB with weird crashes and inexplicable behavior mostly when I browse or game.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a ram stick going bad. I only figured out it was a ram issue because I started getting "out of memory" crashes while doing things that used to work perfectly fine. The problem is, I only have one stick and ram costs more than my computer now.

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Check your warranty. I recently found a bad stick I bought years ago. Turns out lots of ram has a lifetime warranty

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

If only, if only. It's a pre-built I got from HP. I never would have if not for the fact that I was able to get it for a steal at only $300, which was about the price of its graphics card at the time.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I had a PSU with one malfunctioning GPU power cable, but I spent a year with a half powered 1080 randomly crashing and cursing the state of linux and nvidia drivers. Memcheck said the ram is fine, temps are fine, other games work fine, it has to be the software! Oops...

[–] Bronzor@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I tried memtest86 and my ram passed all of the tests. Is there a test you would recommend outside of that?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

I just used memtest, but I ran multiple full passes over night. Flaky memory won't always be caught by a single pass, but in my case it was really bad.