Graphical glitch but system is usable, and glitch is gone when killing X

Hello,
Yesterday I updated my system. Here’s some of my system specification.
2022-10-19_12-51
The glitch started when I open subnautica game from epic game store that is run using lutris with this settings :
2022-10-19_13-36
I just open the game for a few seconds because I just tested it to see if it runs well or not. And then the glitch appears. This is how my thunar looks like.
IMG_20221019_122658
But strangely, my browser seems to be partially fine. But the glitch still remains when I switch focus to other software. I use waterfox-g4-bin from AUR.
IMG_20221019_122900

After letting it be for a few minutes and no freeze/hang happened, I decided to kill the X using this command

pkill x

After logging in again, the glitch is gone like it never happen.
Is it hardware related problem or software related problem. Any information I need to provide to help the debugging process ?

pacman -Q | grep -i mesa

Above command will result the following. I saw in other post about graphical glitch that someone asks the OP to provide this information:
lib32-mesa 22.2.1-1
lib32-opencl-mesa 22.2.1-1
mesa 22.2.1-1
mesa-utils 8.5.0-2
opencl-mesa 22.2.1-1

Any information / hint about the source of the problem / solution would be really appreciated.
Thank you.

try installing libva-mesa-driver
for hardware decoding on GPU

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Before installing that, I tested the game again and got the glitch and the monitor became black screen. After I restart, I tried running the game with DXVK off and it runs fine. After installing the suggested package, I was able to run the game with DXVK on. Still not sure if it’s the solution. will continue to play test it for a few days. If no glitches happen, then I can mark this as solution.
Thanks for the suggestion.

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it is only a bet in the dark from my side… but in cases it is needed i would bet:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration

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After I installed that package, I tried to play it again. Got the glitches, but I forgot if I’ve restarted the PC yet after installing the package. After cold restarting the PC, I tried to play the game again. With and without DXVK. so far no glitches yet. I don’t know if it is really the solution, but I will mark it as solution until someone with similar error get the glitches even after installing the package.
Thank you

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