Proton Game Freeze

Issues & Assistance
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Randomly the whole system freezes for a moment and then the game stays frozen and only the kill game works. No matter which version of Proton I use

kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: GPU-cfc4d40b-d733-394f-bed0-5bbd7604aa9a
kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 109, pid='<unknown>', name=<unknown>, Ch 0000005c, errorString CTX SWITCH TIMEOUT, Info 0xfc039

Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia v: 565.77
linux-cachyos-nvidia 6.12.6-1
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looks like it’s an old issue, this xid 109, it takes nvidia years to fix issues on linux Multiple CUDA/RTX/Vulkan application crashing with Xid (13,109) errors - #439 by ventilhac - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums

3

Thank you for your help.

For other reasons I reinstalled the PC, changed the Desktop Environment and set the proton correctly. Since then I could not reproduce the problem.

Thanks

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Which DE had the problem and which one did you switch to?

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Well I was wrong, today I turned on World of Warcraft and it happened again :slight_smile: Before I was using Bottles for launching, now I’m using Lutris, I’ve also tried Steam for start with different versions of proton. The problem will be elsewhere…
To answer your question, I used Gnome before and now I’m trying KDE. (I’m not a fan of KDE because it reminds me a lot of Windows, but I’m trying to make friends with it.)

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As I’m reading the thread on the Nvidia forum, I’m considering whether to try a graphics card from AMD :slight_smile:

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That’s the only solution for 90% of nvidia issues on linux.