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Universal Blue•4d ago
cjbottaro

Games freeze, but alt-tabbing fixes it

Alright, this is driving me nuts. My games very frequently freeze. By frequently, I mean like once every 5 mins. The screen stops updating, but I can still hear sound usually. The crazy part is that alt-tabbing completely fixes it. I alt-tab to some other app, usually a web browser or terminal, then alt-tab back to the game and it it's fine. Here's my fastfetch output... 
                                            cjbottaro@clockworks
     %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%
   %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-gnome-nvidia-open:stable 
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.15.9-116.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  47 mins
  ==                  =======######
  ==                  =========#####      󰻠  AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.27 GHz
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 [Discrete]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####       7.43 GiB / 62.44 GiB (12%)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       333.98 GiB / 1.82 TiB (18%) - btrfs [Read-only]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####     󰍹  3440x1440 @ 144 Hz in 34" [External]
  %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######     󰖺  keyd virtual pointer
   %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰖺  Microsoft X-Box One Elite 2 pad
    %%%%%%%=====#####========######
     %%%%###===============#######        󰕮  GNOME 48.4
      %#######==========#########           Mutter (Wayland)
        #######################             bash 5.2.37
          ###################               ghostty 1.1.3-1.fc42
              ###########                 󰏖  2316 (rpm), 50 (flatpak), 14 (brew)

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                                            cjbottaro@clockworks
     %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%
   %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-gnome-nvidia-open:stable 
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.15.9-116.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  47 mins
  ==                  =======######
  ==                  =========#####      󰻠  AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.27 GHz
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 [Discrete]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####       7.43 GiB / 62.44 GiB (12%)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       333.98 GiB / 1.82 TiB (18%) - btrfs [Read-only]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####     󰍹  3440x1440 @ 144 Hz in 34" [External]
  %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######     󰖺  keyd virtual pointer
   %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰖺  Microsoft X-Box One Elite 2 pad
    %%%%%%%=====#####========######
     %%%%###===============#######        󰕮  GNOME 48.4
      %#######==========#########           Mutter (Wayland)
        #######################             bash 5.2.37
          ###################               ghostty 1.1.3-1.fc42
              ###########                 󰏖  2316 (rpm), 50 (flatpak), 14 (brew)

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The really crazy part that it doesn't happen on my gf's computer which is nearly identical, except for: * Ryzen 5700X * RTX 3070 * Gigabyte motherboard But other than that, identical. Even use the same dotfiles repo and general setup. Bot says that a 5090 is new, where as a 3070 is old and battle tested. Is there any credence to that? Temps are great while gaming, both cpu and gpu around 55C. During stress testing, they get up to about 70C, but that's it. I've run memtest86 and it passes. I even set my memory to JEDEC settings just to rule that out. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
3 Replies
cjbottaro
cjbottaroOP•2d ago
Ehh, after doing a bunch of searching, there does seem to be generic instabilities with 50 series Nvidia cards. I tried the "force pcie to gen4" fix and it drastically reduced the number of freezes: only one freeze in 3 hour of gaming. I think the best I can do is wait for driver updates. Ugh.
cjbottaro
cjbottaroOP•2d ago
Seems other people have the exact same issue and it's being tracked: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/880
GitHub
RTX 5090 often freezes presentation for 3-5 seconds in certain game...
NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version 570.123.18 Please confirm this issue does not happen with the proprietary driver (of the same version). This issue tracker is only for bugs specific to the op...
Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree•2d ago
This has been an issue for awhile across different distros My hope is that this is an nvidia issue which makes things much simpler But as of right now it could literally be anything Also its interesting that 9800x3d is also a reoccurring cpu in these cases https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1393677703231701187/1393677703231701187 The same described issue

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