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LeonUPazz

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Registered: 2025-05-11

Posts: 3

AMD GPU crashes during gameplay

Hi, I recently installed arch with hyprland and am currently experiencing random crashes while playing different games.

These are my specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600
AMD Radeon 6700xt
32 Gb RAM
Kernel: 6.14.6-arch1-1

I have tried to rule out memory problems by running memtest86+ for a few hours, but haven't found any errors.
After checking through journalctl, I found that the problem is indeed with the gpu.

Pastebin to the journalctl output

I included the logs from where the problems seem to have started until the computer crashed.

I already looked at some other posts such as this or this, but being new to linux I'm unsure of what to try.

Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry if I forgot any important logs or info.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,772

Re: AMD GPU crashes during gameplay

May 11 10:44:39 archlinux-desktop steam[1663]: radv: GPUVM fault detected at address 0x8000e4600000.
May 11 10:44:39 archlinux-desktop steam[1663]: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS: 0x501430

That's the likely culprit .
It's tricky to troubleshoot, look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305490

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LeonUPazz

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Registered: 2025-05-11

Posts: 3

Re: AMD GPU crashes during gameplay

As an update, I tried a lot of fixes and nothing seemed to work, until I tried uninstalling corectrl and setting /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level to high. After doing so I rebooted the systems and now games seem to run more smoothly, and I haven't experienced a crash in 3 hours. I will update later if I get other crashes, but this seems to have fixed the problem for now

LeonUPazz

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Registered: 2025-05-11

Posts: 3

Re: AMD GPU crashes during gameplay

I guess that the issue is fixed. I haven't had a single crash since with any game

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,772

Re: AMD GPU crashes during gameplay

For clarity :
you are permanently forcing the high performance level as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … nce_levels ?

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky