Hi all. Been using EOS since last August, and honestly have been pretty happy. One thing that hasn’t really bugged me too much since I don’t actually game that often is that games running under proton/wine eventually freeze at a seemingly random point. Whether I run a game through lutris or steam, I get anywhere from a few seconds to hours of a game running before the video freezes. The rest of the OS is fine; I can alt-tab out of the game and do other things fine. I saw in this topic that someone seemed to have a similar issue and fixed it by downgrading their nvidia drivers. This made sense, so I tried to go to the exact version specified in that topic. The drivers failed to compile against my kernel (6.13.8), so I reverted to the latest version painlessly enough, or so I thought. This is a laptop, you see, and sometimes I hook it up to my TV to watch movies on a bigger screen. I have done this several times without issue until the night after I reverted the drivers, because now even my HDMI output freezes at random points. Playing video files on the built-in screen without using HDMI does not have any issue, and games which run natively on linux have no issue either. Warsim, a windows game which runs in the terminal, does run fine under proton, which leads me to conclude it is a graphical issue.
I initially assumed this was purely a proton/wine issue, potentially interacting with deeper vulkan support issues, but since the HDMI has gotten involved I must conclude it is bigger than that. Again, it isn’t a super huge issue to me that games don’t work well. I get plenty of usage out of my GPU for blender and game dev stuff. That being said, I do have games just sitting on my drive and steam library that I can’t do anything with at the moment, so I would like to remedy that if possible.
Info:
inxi -Fxxc0z
https://0x0.st/82yN.txt
Recent journalctl, every mention of nvidia:
journalctl -b -0 | grep nvidia
https://0x0.st/82yT.txt
Logs from a run of Dwarf Fortress (itch.io release) through lutris. Debugging info is set to “Enabled”. Game was stopped soon after the freeze, which on this run happened seconds after the game booted:
https://0x0.st/82yO.txt
I can provide more information as requested, though I will head to bed soon so I’ll be seeing any responses a number of hours from now. Thanks in advance.