For the past week or so, it has been near impossible to play the following Steam games: Stalker 2 (UE5), Misery (UE5), Satisfactory (UE5), House Flipper (Unity!). At some point within 20 minutes of playing, opening a menu, map, inventory, or pause screen, etc. will freeze and crash the game. There is no bug report afterword, just a crash to desktop. I have many hours in all of those games, and never had a problem like this before. I play satisfactory and/or stalker daily. I thought it was a UE5 thing but maybe it is a DX12 thing? 2D games work fine. I have tried various proton versions through steam to no avail.

Operating System: Bazzite 43 Desktop

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0

Qt Version: 6.10.1

Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba19.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D 8-Core Processor

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Could it be oom-killer? If your system runs out of ram it will inexplicably kill the largest user of ram, like your game.

    Running dmesg in terminal right after a crash could tell you.