I have a few questions, please comment if you match all of most of these:
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Do you use an RX 6000 series GPU?
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Do you experience random freezes when playing games?
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Are those freezes a “page fault”? (Use journalctl to check)
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Do these issues occur in OpenGL games?
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Are the page faults a GCVM_PROTECTION_FAULT?
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What mesa version do you use?
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What Linux distro do you use?
I’ve been having frequent freezes and it renders my operating system nearly unusable. I have to restart my computer to recover, and I lose all of my unsaved work.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Do you use an RX 6000 card on Linux but have not had this issue?
I run an RX6600 and haven’t had any freezing issues. Which version of Mesa and which games? If it’s all OpenGL games that would be rather strange.
Mesa 23.2+
Games as simple as Minecraft eventually crash my PC.
What distro?
KDE Neon using X11 with latest stable kernel+Mesa.
Might be a gnome thing
Not sure if this will fix your problem but try Wayland and see if you have the issue. I don’t know why a lot of my problems with games were fixed and it might help you.
Are they using vulkan natively (not dxvk through wine)? I posted about this when running the experimental vulkan support on BeamNG.drive https://www.beamng.com/threads/vulkan-api-–-feedback-known-issues-and-faq.79967/page-12#post-1617244. Looks to be very similar maybe?
My OS details are in that post but also here:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: 6.1.39-1-lts Resolution: 3840x1600 WM: sway CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.400GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon PRO W6800 Memory: 64209MiB
All other games, even ones that use vulkan, work fine for me, it’s just BeamNG.drive
EDIT: well, I’m not on 6.1.39 anymore… I have obviously updated since that post, but the rest is the same…
6900XT on Ubuntu 22.04 with 0 issues. Maybe it’s an issue with recent mesa updates or your hardware