Instability in some games
Warframe crashes after an undeterminable ammount of time pretty consistently (30m to a few hours), Oblivion cant even display the title screen. As soon as it happens the screen freezes, sound works for 10-20s in the background (can still hear game or YT video) then either full crash and I have to hard reset or return to login screen.
This is a somewhat recent thing, played both games abt a month ago flawlessly, Elden Ring for example still runs perfectly. (all running via proton)
Im using the current version of bazzite.
Hardware are 9070xt, 5900x and 32gb of RAM, GPU is slightly undervolted (using lact)
Does not seem to relate to GPU hardware, tried both stock and a heavy underclock both on GPU and VRAM with no difference in result.
I do not know how to get any relevant logs, any help/tips would be appreciated.
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Did you try different versions of proton? I believe steam defaults to experimental ,could try proton 10 and 9 for the unstable games
Ive been running on 9 for most of my games, tried both hotfix and experimental with no change
Use protonup or protonplus to add proton GE to steam, restart steam and try with that proton (10-10 rn). Disable any undervolt while experimenting. Every game behaves differently to undervolting. I have an almost identical setup and for me an uv of -60 is rock steady on all games, but -65 crashed oblivion for me.
I did exactly as requested, same result:
game starts, the exact frame the cursor changes to the ingame one there is a freeze frame, then ~20s later a garbled mess on the 2nd screen (I assume that is the mesa driver having a horrible time) then after a bit back to the login screen
After it happens do
journalctl -b -0 -r to see the logs of the current boot in reversed order. If you need to reboot after the crash, do -1 instead of -0 to see the ones of the previous boot. There should be an indication of what goes wrong there.I dont think the system reboots, I do not have to put in my encryption key for the SSD, it just directly goes to the login
Can I dump the output into a file?
Oh, and if you have a curve optimiser setting, you may need to tone it down a bit. I had to reduce from -25 to -20 after upgrading from the 5700xt to the 9070xt.
if you add
| fpaste you'll upload it to a pastebin and get the link to that or you can add > textfile.txt to export to a fileI went to stock for now, all except the fan profile (I dont care much for silence, I prefer a cool GPU)
xwayland seems to shit the bed there for some weird reason. Try running it with proton ge 10-10 and the launch argument
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command% to run it in a wayland seesionI hope this one is not too cluttered, I had yt open on the other screen, I can repeat if you cant make sense of it
It started to display particles this time, but still crashed <1s after
Weird. It seems to start with xwayland shitting the bed (coredumping) at line 1879 and after that everything starts to follow. Consider running a memtest overnight to rule that out. I see some selinux errors too early in the boot, but I'm pretty clueless about selinux.
Will do, will update this tomorrow then. Ty for your help so far ❤️
Seems super stable during memtest
Yeah. Good that it's not your memory. I have no idea why your xwayland and plasma shit the bed though :(. Is it the og oblivion or the remastered one?
Remastered.
any themes?
I have that one set on proton ge 9-27 and use gamscope to launch
I dont think I understand, could you elaborate?
kde themes
I think my install is pretty vanilla, iirc the only thing I changed was the wallpaper
seems like the one in use is called "Vapor"
that's fine
vapor is what's shipped with bazzite
This is my launch argument for it using proton ge 9-27: gamescope -f --hdr-enabled -h 2160 --mangoapp -- %command% . Might need to set a different resolution of course and leave out the hdr and mangoapp flags if you don't use or want it.
you might want to use scb instead
my wild guess is steam's overlay
try testing with it off
I tried with the arguments gamescope -f -h 1440 -- %command% under GE 10-10
I disabled that yesterday already, sorry if I didnt communicate that
hmmm
replace gamescope with scb and see if it does the same thing (it probably will)
scb just manages environment variables for gamescope
with some other nice additions
as you predicted, same outcome
Runs fine for me on 10-10 too. The only major difference between our rigs seems to be that I only have one monitor.
You have lact installed?
that is one of my worries, I heard multi monitor can be funky sometimes
I have the LACT version from the bazar installed
Assuming you didn't uninstall it and just reverted stock settings in lact
yes
try
and see if it does the same thing
run this in a terminal if you are not aware
Thank you, same result tho
Im gonna try unplugging one monitor for my own sanity
ah
yeah try unplugging one monitor
Did a full reboot w only one monitor, same result
Sanity check time: You're running off a btrfs or ext4 drive and have verified the files in steam?
the system drive (1TB sabrent SSD) is btrfs, oblivion is on a seperate steam drive (1TB sabrent SSD) in ext4
yes I verified without problems in steam
tbf the game would probably not launch if it wasn't btrfs or ext4
not crash the system like here
maybe try just deleting the wine prefix and let steam do its thing?
Yeah, I know, but just wanted to make sure. It's so weird to have such different outcomes on similar hw
where do I find the oblivion prefix?
ah just run protontricks
from the app menu
select the game and delete all data in the prefix
just make sure if your game has saves that they are backed up
you shouldn't have to redownload the game, since the game doesn't live in the prefix
if you are done, restart steam and let steam do its thing and see what happens
for game issues you shold always check protondb before asking here
that is not the only game that crashes, just an example
some games just dont work well on bazzite or need some tweaking to work
obvlivion is rated gold on protondb
it should just work
it did work like a month ago flawlessly too
and biebel's oblivion works too
gold games on protondbs rating scale are classified as work with minimal issues or needs tweaking
games that work right out of the box are platinum most of the time
my dude
compiling shaders, pls hold the line XD
apparently something in the prefix was borked, ty for your help ❤️
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Nice. Still baffled by proton completely crashing plasma though lol
the prefix was created before I upgraded my GPU (had a 6700XT before) maybe that is the cause of this somehow?
might be
and switching proton versions a lot would only worsen the situation
also might be bad cached shaders