Certain games crashing and YouTube freezing

General system Gaming, sound and video
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Guild Wars 2, when ran through Lutris, will eventually crash. Sims 4 will crash almost immediately on getting into the gameplay screen. YouTube will straight up freeze my entire system even in the homepage, not even when watching a video.

For the games, I have tried every single Proton and Wine runner I have and nothing works. Changing it may prolong the time until a crash occurs by a little bit but will not fix it. Running Guild Wars 2 through Steam but setting launch options to run the client instead of the Steam version will run just fine but then I do not get addons. I tried reinstalling Guild Wars 2 and trying all the different Wine/Proton runners but it did not work. I obviously tried without addons/mods, did not work.

For YouTube, the moment I get to the homepage it will completely lock up my system. I have to press Alt + F4 to close the browser and then it works like nothing happened. I have tried disabling all addons, even non YouTube related ones, still happens. My main browser is Zen Browser, but I tried Firefox and it happens there as well. Odysee homepage works fine but when I start watching a video it will freeze just like YouTube.

Rebooting fixes the issue temporarily but they always come back.

There have also been some weird things happening:

  • Decompressing will sometimes completely fail, the program will freeze and I have to terminate the process. After decompressing my system will act slower than usual like it never recovered from the decompression load.
  • After closing certain games the system will act slow just like after decompressing.
  • Screen flickering, sometimes a “rainbow” screen after a reboot.

I am not opposed to it being a GPU problem but it does not happen in Windows, although Windows will also have flickering on occasion, but to a lesser extent.

As of writing I have the latest default arch kernel: version 6.13.4, latest mesa drivers: version 24.3.4

System:
Ryzen 5800X3D
RX 7900 XT
32 GB RAM
2TB SATA SSD (System drive, and some games)
1TB M.2 SSD (game drive, including the games mentioned)

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Finally, the system information:
inxi: https://0x0.st/8Al-.txt ( inxi -Fxxc0z)
journalctl: https://0x0.st/8Alo.txt ( journalctl -k -b -0)
Partition info: https://0x0.st/8AlH.txt ( lsblk -o name,type,size,PTTYPE,FSTYPE)
Install log: https://0x0.st/8AlK.txt (via EOS GUI log tool)

If that is not enough, please let me know. Sorry it took so long I have horrible memory and simply forgot.

EDIT 2: I came back to my PC and it would not wake from “screen off”. I tried doing the Caps Lock test and it would not light up, telling me the PC has frozen. This was after a recent boot and I had not done anything except watch YouTube. This is looking more and more like a OS reinstall situation.

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Please check out this link and follow the instructions. It’s better for detailed system info.

Forum Log Tool: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/forum-log-tool-options/how-to-include-systemlogs-in-your-post/2021/03/

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Oh sorry I was planning on doing that but had a PUBG tournament match incoming and forgot to do it after.

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Okay so I ended up reinstalling the entire OS because it was getting ridiculous. Can not watch videos, can not decompress anything, can not play games and can not even let the monitor go to sleep. System was getting unusable.

EDIT: I am now on Manjaro and getting the same crashes. It seems to be a “signal 11” which is a segmentation fault apparently.

I believe I have narrowed it down to Lutris since both games that crashed on me were installed via Lutris. One via the official installer script and the other via .exe file. What is more worrisome is the tab crashes for the same “signal 11 segmentation fault” reason, multiple browsers have crashed.

However, since it suddenly started happening I believe there has to be some package that was updated that broke something. Playing Guild Wars 2 via Steam works flawlessly but it crashes on Lutris.

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Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) v: 3.0
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: H.L0
date: 06/29/2023

Your current BIOS seems it may be out-of-date, but I’m not sure. You can check it using MSI’s website here: https://us.msi.com/support/download/mb

Also, I notice you are using the latest kernel. It may be a good idea to use the LTS kernel instead. This may help with compatibility and/or the issues you’re having.

Check if you have the LTS kernel installed with:

pacman -Q | grep -A 0 -E "linux"

If you don’t have either of the below sets of packages, you can install them with Yay like so:

yay -Syu linux-lts linux-lts-headers

Set #1: “linux-lts linux-lts-headers” ← Official Arch Repo (maybe not Manjaro)
Set #2: “linux-lts66 linux-lts66-headers” ← AUR

PS: You said you’re on Manjaro now. It is not recommended to use any AUR package with that distro, or you risk messing up your system. Manjaro does not properly support the AUR. Nor, does Arch for that matter, but you are likely to have real issues on Manjaro.

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You can fix these issues with manjaro by swapping to their unstable repositories. They mirror the Arch repositories.

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“You”? Ha! I wouldn’t touch Manjaro with a 100-meter stick. Maybe a laser or air drop some lava on it to be safe. It was so hard not to type “Borkjaro” when responding to the OP.

PS: I know you probably meant “you” in general. I am just kidding around. :sweat_smile:

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I really didn’t think of you as in the individual. I can only apologise :kissing_heart:

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I know. No need to apologise. :eyes:

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Yes it is out of date if you look it up. :wink:

Let’s not bash other distro’s and stick to the topic and helping the user with their issue.

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I am not the OP. I don’t need to look it up. I found and posted the link for the OP to do their own research. Not for myself.

I literally avoided doing so and provided the OP with information that could help. Yet you chose to ignore that fact and comment on something specific.

Find something else to do with your time than leaving unnecessary comments under any of my posts that you think could be seen as negative. Every time for the last few months, I’m guessing because of a disagreement from a previous thread.

If you’re looking for me to respond in a way that gets me banned, how about you just ban me without cause and get it over with?

So annoying.
Oh. :wink:

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You commented that you think it’s out of date. I told you it was out of date if you look it up and winked. Nothing wrong with that.

Edit: I also asked you not to bash other distro’s calling them names. Is that really what this is about? I was just asking you to show some respect for other linux distro’s the same as we would want for endeavouros. You can dislike what I’m telling you but that’s all i have to say.

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That is unfortunate, does not feel that long ago I updated the BIOS.

I did actually think of that and tried it with the LTS kernel, same issues.

I now tried to install Guild Wars 2 manually, meaning “install from .exe” within Lutris rather than the official install script and so far it seems to do fine. I am however running debugging in Lutris so obviously it is not going to crash now. Going to try and install Sims 4 again to see what happens, after the BIOS update.

I have gotten some tab crashes in my browser since then but only a few and only within a short space of time, but no hard freezes, which is a good sign I guess.

For now I will try and update BIOS to see if it changes anything.

Even though I find this disrespectful and elitist, I do like EndeavourOS better. I figured I would try another distro to see if it was distro specific but in hindsight that makes the troubleshooting harder, and Manjaro has more bloat which does not help things. Manjaro just so happened to be the next Arch based distro on the list in distrowatch that I had tried before.

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Make sure to back up before doing so. Meaning your important files.

I’ve used Manjaro before, so I am not talking from a place of consensus (meaning other people’s views). I experienced data loss as a result of using it with the AUR.

Technically, it is not Manjaro’s fault that I ignored (or didn’t read) that Manjaro is not great with AUR packages at the time (years ago). But what is the point of using “Arch” if it’s not following Arch? Slower package updates and incompatibility with the AUR means it’s not really Arch-based. It just uses Pacman. Kinda like KaOS, which does the same thing but only truly supports KDE/Qt packages.

All that to say, sorry if you found that disrespectful. It is mostly certainly not elitist, though.

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I would first check your ram memory with memtest, those issues can be related to bad, mismatched or badly seated memory

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Hello, I return here with great shame.

Because it seemed to be so random I assumed it could not be the memory because only Wayland freezes, X11 runs fine except a few games crash, and Windows has always run fine although I do not use it as much.

Today I ran a memtest and one of my sticks was absolutely riddled with errors. I am now running on one stick and I am going to see if it keeps happening.

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