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Well when the crash happens and the screen shows an enormous amount of green artifacting, sure looks like a graphics driver and/or kernel issue to me. But yeah, I’m probably wrong because your experience is pristine. And the many hours of research I’ve done on this subject leads to the conclusion that there are issues with 6.13+ kernel, amdgpu driver, and Wayland, and especially if having more than one display connected (despite setting the refresh rates to the lowest common denominator).

But I’m sure I’m wrong and it’s something completely different. Thanks for the insight.

I run cachyos. I know that they like to tweak the kernel and change numerous settings which can make gaming less stable in my specific scenario. I think I’m going to just run everything via gamescope now since I seem to have the proper flags to make it just work without oddities for me (I liked being borderless, but that causes issues with some games, so I am avoiding that now). And then see if I get any crashes. If I continue to see crashes, hopefully recoverable this time, then I may stick with linux-lts kernel instead of using cachy’s.

Maybe AMD can put some resources into fixing RDNA3 instability with the latest kernels this year? I’ve had unrecoverable system crashes (no access to TTY, keyboard/mouse locked up) when gaming with RDNA3 on any kernel >6.12, and mostly on wayland, numerous times now. I don’t undervolt/overclock. And I’m only running a 7900XT (a 2+ year old card now).

I’m basically relegated to running either on the 6.12 kernel, or run everything with gamescope just to attempt to guarantee stability and recoverability from crashes. Gamescope “works”, but seems to run best using “-f” for fullscreen mode – anything else seems to have some quirkiness for me.