Display Freeze with 100% GPU usage

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So rather than hijack the other thread I figured I would create a new post to explain what I’m encountering and what I’ve found.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
GPU: Radeon RX 7900XT

KDE Plasma 6.7.3
KWin (Wayland)

If I am playing a game that runs my GPU at 100% the output to the monitors freezes. The system itself continues to run and respond to input. Sometimes pressing the start/meta/super key fixes it. Sometimes hitting escape fixes it, and when all else failes CTRL+ALT+F3 to switch to another TTY fixes it. Once the freeze happens it starts to happen more frequently each time it happens.

This happen when only the game is running but also seems to be ame worse if I have a video open on another monitor, it doesn’t have to be playing. The freezes happen almost immediatly and last longer.

My temps are all within normal ranges when it happens.

I’ve noticed this issue with the following kernels:
cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos
cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos-gcc (It still happens with this one but no where near as bad. Just the occasional stutter.)
cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos-rc
cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos-bore-lto
cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos-eevdf
cachyos/linux-cachyos

It doesn’t happen with the following kernels:
cachyos-v3/cachyos-lts
core/linux

I played Voices of the Void this morning using cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos and encountered the video freezes after aproximately 15 min. I switched to core/linux and played for about an hour before lunch, then came back and have been playing using this kernel since.

I attached the log from earlier this morning when it started happening with the stable kernel.

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same thing happens to me after the kernel update into 7.1 my laptop won’t start after loading initial ramdisk the screen just goes off and pressing any button won’t help to turn it on, so i have to rollback and ignore the kernel update until now.
we need to planning on trying a new distro now!
I’m migrating from windows to avoid the ridiculous update but now the same thing happen here I’m really disappointed!

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I do note your BIOS is out of date.

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You are absolutely right, I didn’t even realize they still supported this board with updates. Let me do that right now.

Update: I updated my bios and unfortunately it’s still doing it.
Just in case I have a new log.

I’m kinda out of ideas at this point. It seems to be ok if my GPU doesn’t peg 100% usage. I should say I’ve had issues since Kernel 7.x was introduced. Originally it was full system freezes that required hard reboots. Now it’s just weird video freezes and microstutters. I would assume amdgpu issues but the fact that it doesn’t seem to happen with the arch kernel makes me think it isn’t that. :confused:

The interesting thing is that it doesn’t seem to happen if my game casually taps 100% every once in a while. It’s when I reach an area where my GPU can sing at 100% for more than a few seconds and then it happens.

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I don’t know about all that. I haven’t had any issues with CachyOS since I made the switch. Linux 7.X is the first time I’ve had an issue like this.

Before giving up you should try the LTS kernel and see if you have the same issue.