Kwin desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hi friends.

I installed Resident Evil 4 and was playing yesterday without problems, but today, when I play again, it freezes after 10 seconds, and the message kwin desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset appears. Then I have to go to Lutris and stop the game.

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I have looked at the % cpu gpy and ram usage and it does not exceed 70%, so it does not seem to be a problem due to lack of memory.

Does anyone know what could be the cause? I’ve tried playing on X11, but there I get half the fps in most games and I can only get 60fps in Wayland.

Thanks in advance.

I’m using:

Kernel: 6.9.8-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.2 Distro: EndeavourOS
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 555.58.02
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    gpu: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast,zink
    platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 555.58.02
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland

EDIT:

I tried turning off all Plasma effects, but it still doesn’t work.

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Do you have the same issue with another game?

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I don’t know, I’m going to try it now with CS2 and report back.

But I just had another problem I’ve never had before. When I turn on the PC, the EOS login screen does not appear, everything is black and I cannot open the console, but I was able to REISUB, and I rebooted several times until the EOS login screen finally appeared.

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I have tested 2 games for 1 hour and they work correctly as always. RE4 worked fine the first time I played it, I think RE4 broke some Plasma, but I’m not sure.

Also, some small settings were returned to the factory state, such as “shake cursor”.

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I managed to fix it by reinstalling the game, lowering the resolution to 720p, limiting the fps to 30, disabling all versions of Proton and running wine-ge from Lutris.

I can’t find a newer version of wine-ge because it won’t get new updates anymore because it’s called UMU now (if I’m not mistaken), so I can only use version 8, but at least it works.

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