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Bazzite•3mo ago•
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Mitherman

Steam games constantly crash

SOLVED (Hardware failure)


Hey y'all, I'm encountering an issue where all Steam games crash under load. When I load into a match in Rivals, increase graphics settings on the ship in HD2, or get to more intensive portions of Risk of Rain 2, the applications invariably crash to desktop within a minute or two. This issue occurs in both gaming and desktop mode. I'm not entirely new to Fedora/Red Hat, but have historically relied on the terminal and am brand new to gaming on Linux. Any suggestions welcome!

KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Kernel Version: 6.16.4-116.bazzite.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600
GPU: RX 9060 XT 8G
RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000
SSD: 1TB WD SN850
MB: ASRock A620I Lightning

Solutions Attempted:
1. Disable Steam Overlay
2. Set desktop scaling to 100%
3. Enable hardware acceleration in Steam
4. Give my PC a gentle kiss
5. Change Proton version (9.0-4, 10.0-3, Hotfix, Experimental)
6. Use Proton GE 10.25
7. Update OS
8. Update to Steam OS/client beta
Solution
Works fine at JEDEC, this is just shaping up to be an issue with the motherboard not knowing how to handle XMP with AM5. Thanks ASRock!
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