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Suiaerl

Hard freeze launching specific games (screen goes white and system becomes unresponsive).

question
This might be a weird set up, and I definitely might be missing some information (sorry I am new to all of this).

First set up wise:
Xbox Rog Ally X connected to a sapphire nitro+ AMD Radeon 9070 XT via a thunderbolt 5 cable, which uses my 4K TV via an HDMI cable. I am using the
bazzite-stable-live-amd64.iso
bazzite-stable-live-amd64.iso
for my bazzite install.

I also would like to call out all my games seem to work perfectly fine from my handheld, and with the eGPU plugged in, and using the internal screen of the Xbox Rog Ally X. The issue only seems to come up when connected to the TV and sort of acting as a home theater PC.

The specific stand out case that I have been using is Elden Ring Nightreign (where as a game like Barony runs fine). Which lead me to think it has something to do with dx or the resolution. Thus I got this to work once, which was by adding the launch properties of
-screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080 -screen-fullscreen 0 -popupwindow
-screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080 -screen-fullscreen 0 -popupwindow
. Granted this worked a few close / opens, but when I was curious if it was that I tried removing this launch properties and since then this has not worked regardless of what I try.

I assume it's not a wine/proton issue, but for proton I have been using Proton-GE-latest.

Basically what happens is I click
Play
Play
, the Easy Anti-Cheat launches and finishes, then when the game would normally launch I get a white (sometimes green) screen, and the system hard freezes, and I have to hold the power button and restart.

Anyway I've spent entirely too much time trying to fix this and I suspect it's going to be something entirely simple as it seems plenty of people have this just working. If there is any additional information I can pass along please let me know! As I said I am new to all this and trying to really commit to switching over to Linux.
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