Computer freezes when playing some games on Steam

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

Here is output from inxi:
System:
Host: cachyos-x8664 Kernel: 6.13.0-3-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 Distro: CachyOS
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: AMS Z690 v: -CF
serial:
Mobo: Gigabyte model: AMS Z690 serial: UEFI: American
Megatrends LLC. v: F3 date: 03/25/2022
CPU:
Info: 12-core (8-mt/4-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K bits: 64
type: MST AMCP cache: L2: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4900:5000:3800 cores: 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel AlderLake-S GT1 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia
v: 570.86.16
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.86.16 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce
RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Giga-Byte USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB
API: ALSA v: k6.13.0-3-cachyos status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: f2:e0:bd:cc:8d:36
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I225-V driver: igc
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: d8:5e:d3:c0:75:a4
IF-ID-1: VPN-CH-CZ-1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 237.07 GiB (6.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-AG42TB size: 1.82 TiB
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-ASM2NE6200TTTD
size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 236.17 GiB (12.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot size: 2 GiB used: 927.6 MiB (45.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 236.17 GiB (12.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-4: /var/log size: 1.82 TiB used: 236.17 GiB (12.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-5: /var/tmp size: 1.82 TiB used: 236.17 GiB (12.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.12 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: 34.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.12 GiB used: 3.3 GiB (10.6%)
Processes: 412 Uptime: 46m Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.37

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.

Are you running any scx scheduler? Please also share the system log as it may contain something useful. journalctl -b 0 | paste-cachyos

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I am not sure what scx scheduler is. I will try and post the journal informations right after next computer crash.

Is that the only game, that it is freezing on?

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 :wink:

Thank you all for your advices.

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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:

Hello, did you try to use “Protonup-qt” some games really don´t like the Steam Proton Version… (like proton cachyos make problems mit swtor)

I would recommend to install Steamtinkerlaunch from “Protonup-qt” because Lutris/GOG use GE-Proton on default

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.

Hi, well easy to to fix… sudo pacman -S yad "maybe you need xwininfo and some other but there all in the repo^^

Theres still the samo problem, even after installing yad package.

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^^

I restartedcomputer and right after that I was able to install steamtinkerlaunch. Sorry for confusion.

not a problem^^ you have to download the proton tkg also from protonup-qt^^

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.