Hello everyone, my name is Pavlina, I am from Prague - Czech republic and this is my first post here.
in recent monsths I have problem, that some games in steam freezes completely my computer so I have to turn it off.
I bought my new computer in summer 2023. I installed Manjaro with XFCE on it and everything went well. In November last year I installed on it EndeavourOS (with XFCE desktop) and some days later I had my first computer freeze when I was playing Pathfinder Wrath of…
I thought it was due to the graphic card drivers, because on Endeavouros everything is much newer then on Manjaro with stable branch updates.
Five days ago I installed CachyOS (and I must say that I love it) over the Endeavoros and the problems with computer freeze are the same. Yesterday I installed new Nvidia drivers - 570 and tested it on Pathfinder and it worked without any problems.
But today, after 5 minuts of playing my computer freeze again. I am runnig kernel 6.13, but the same happens on 6.12 LTS. I am runnig KDE plasma on Nvidia geforce 3070 8GB.
And sorry for my english language
Thanks for your answer A80z, the problem is, that the same problems were also with previous drivers v. 565.77. Maybe this problem has nothing in common with GPU drivers, I dont know. On Manjaro I used grub, on Endeavouros and now on CachyOS I am using systemd.
Update - now I try to install chacyos gaming packages via welcome screen and run Witcher 3 in Steam native and after 5 minutes computer freezed again. So it does not matter if I run games under Steam Runtime or Native.
Good morning H80z.
thanks for the the links, I read the gaming wiki yesterday, but will go through once again today.
I will test some of the troubled games with different proton versions (Pathfinder Kingmaker is native linux game but I will try it also with the cachyos-proton).
And will watch both youtube videos. I know the first one, but I am most curios about the second one.
Once again, thank you and have a nice Sunday.
For example Pathfinder Kingmaker which freezes my computer, is native linux game. But the same happens with Pathfinder WOTR, which is not native linux game.
At the same time Baldurs gate 1 + 2 from GOG as well as Divinity OS 1 also from GOG are both native linux games and both seems to work very well.
Maybe the problem is in Steam, but as I wrote in my first post, for one and half year I played both Pathfinder games (spent 140 hours in Kingmaker and 200 in WOTR) under steam in Manjaro, and I had zero problems.
Maybe I should try to update BIOS (I know that there are lots of new versions of BIOS for my motherboard), but honestly, I am afraid of doing this.
Did you use the same hardware? As for Gigabyte, updating the BIOS, make sure if you do this it is compatible with all your hardware otherwise you will end up with issues in your hardware, which in turn will screw up your software.
I had issues with PAthfinder Kingmaker, Pathfinder WOTR and Witcher 3 (all on steam). Baldurs gate 1 + 2 and Divinity OS enhanced edition (all from GOG) seem to be working pretty well. Also Dragon age and Wasteland 2 (both on steam) seems to be running without any problems.
As an update, yesterday I played Pathf. Kingmaker without any problems. And today I spent in this game cca 45 minutes also without any problems.
Pathfinder Kingmaker seems to be now working without any problems (at least for last three days). I dont know why (I installed the gaming meta packade, I am now using Steam native and I made several changes according to Cachyos wiki and this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg7uclIuETQ).
What is important is, that it is working. I hope that it will continue this way
Hello everyone, after almost three weeks the problem with computer freezing while playing Pathfinder Kingmaker is back. Today it happend twice (first under wayland and second under X11). I am really confused, here is the result of journalctl -b 0 | paste-cachyos:
Thanks joerg72, I did not know Proton-qt, I installed it, but when I am trying to install Steamtinkerlaunch with it, I receive error, that I am missing yad >= 7.2. But I have yad 14.1-2.1 installed on my system.
you have to look what steamtinkerlaunch say… “missing” you need to install them too^^ don´t be dishartened… gaming on linux is some time a hard thing^^
Hello, so the problem persist. Today my computer freezed in Encased, and now in Witcher 3 (after about one minute of playing). I tried to play Witcher 3 with Proton TKG.
Here is my journal information right after turning my computer on:
I am playing Divinity Original Sin from GOG for the last two weeks and it is working well, so maybe the problem is only steam.
