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byjove01

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From: Alps, France

Registered: 2021-02-15

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[ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

Hello, everything is in the title.
It happens at random times and not after a certain time interval, so I can't especially say what in the game makes this happen.
Due to my PC freezing when it happens, I sadly can't give screenshots too, but I can describe it : my monitor flickers once or twice, then goes completely black, before showing back the last rendered frame with a lot of colored and scattered particles on it.

I don't know if this is due to some bad adaptation in the game source code, or definitely because of my drivers (I hope it is), but I am not against trying to search the solution to this problem here.

Last edited by byjove01 (2023-03-15 09:47:01)

byjove01

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From: Alps, France

Registered: 2021-02-15

Posts: 223

Re: [ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

hmm...

V1del

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Re: [ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

Don't do that https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … es#Bumping

There's little information here, what is your graphics card, what are your drivers, which general environment where you in? how sure are you the system is actually frozen, can you not switch VT? If you can't switch VT can you enable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq) and reboot with REISUB when the issue happens? If you were able to reboot with REISUB, post

sudo journalctl -b-1

byjove01

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From: Alps, France

Registered: 2021-02-15

Posts: 223

Re: [ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

Thanks for replying, sorry for the bump.
My graphic card is an AMD RX 5700 XT, my drivers are I guess brought by the xf86-video-amdgpu, amdvlk and mesa packages. X11 environment.
I'm sure the system is actually frozen because neither Alt+TAB, Alt+F4 or VT switch works. I didn't try REISUB, I'm gonna give you news next time it happens.

byjove01

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From: Alps, France

Registered: 2021-02-15

Posts: 223

Re: [ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

Nope, I can't. The SysRq shortcuts doesn't work, my PC is totally frozen.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

CK3 = Crusader Kings III ?

That appears to be a steam game, do you know if it uses vulkan ?

please post full outputs of

$ lspci -k
$ glxinfo -B    #comes with mesa-utils
$ vulkaninfo --summary   #comes with vulkan-tools

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2022-11-05 18:06:03)

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byjove01

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From: Alps, France

Registered: 2021-02-15

Posts: 223

Re: [ABANDONED] Playing CK3 puts my graphic drivers to randomly freezes PC

Yes, it's the abbrevation for Crusader Kings III. No, according to what I read, it doesn't require Vulkan. I'm gonna put these outputs as soon as I can.