Some Steam Games Crash Constantly

DoubleT · 2022-10-27 15:44:25

Hi! For the last 2 - 3 months, Steam games like Left 4 Dead 2, No More Room in Hell have been crashing constantly on my system. I tried many things I found on the internet but no solution. I'm asking for your help as I can't stand it anymore. I would appreciate it if you could guide me on what to do. I have MSI Modern 15 A5M with Ryzen 5 5500u cpu with Radeon Rx Vega 7 onboard gpu. I use Gnome 42.5 as a DE but I tried it with multiple DEs and WMs.

I tried starting steam with runtime and native runtime, starting game with bunch of console codes. None of them work.

Latest coredump info: gist

Latest Steam mini dump file: gist

Here is lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:01.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_piix4, sp5100_tco
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 3
	Kernel driver in use: k10temp
	Kernel modules: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 7
01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7921K (RZ608) Wi-Fi 6E 80MHz
	Subsystem: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7921K (RZ608) Wi-Fi 6E 80MHz
	Kernel driver in use: mt7921e
	Kernel modules: mt7921e
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
	DeviceName: Onboard LAN Brodcom
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
	Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Kingston Technology Company, Inc. OM3PDP3 NVMe SSD (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Kingston Technology Company, Inc. OM3PDP3 NVMe SSD
	Kernel driver in use: nvme
	Kernel modules: nvme
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lucienne (rev c2)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
	Kernel modules: amdgpu
04:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
04:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
	Kernel driver in use: ccp
	Kernel modules: ccp
04:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci
04:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci
04:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 1310
	Kernel driver in use: snd_rn_pci_acp3x
	Kernel modules: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci, snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_sof_amd_renoir
04:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
	DeviceName: HD Audio Controller
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 137d
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

Is there anything else i should share?

bop34 · 2022-10-27 22:24:16

How/when do these crashes happen? Is as soon as you open the game, randomly while playing, some time while loading the game, or something else?

DoubleT · 2022-10-27 23:30:47

bop34 wrote:

How/when do these crashes happen? Is as soon as you open the game, randomly while playing, some time while loading the game, or something else?

It's totally random. Sometimes within a minute, sometimes after an hour. Before crash all the buildings, cars and other things disappear, then game freeze shortly and then close.

I created a bug report on github since it can be a bug in the game.

Last edited by DoubleT (2022-10-27 23:32:52)

coel · 2022-10-29 01:58:29

Hi DoubleT, do you have your system updated with the latest packages?
Are you playing those games natively or through proton, if through proton, you could try and change versions, sometimes it helps.
Also, how did you start to play games on arch (I mean did you installed only steam or also lutris and all the needed packages to play games on linux)?
If no, I recommend you to go to https://christitus.com/ultimate-linux-gaming-guide/ and install:
- AMD drivers (since you have integrated AMD chip);
- Lutris and whine dependencies.
Have you tried launching steam through a terminal and playing L4D2? If no, you could get info from the terminal on what exactly triggered such behavior.

DoubleT · 2022-11-04 16:33:45

coel wrote:

Hi DoubleT, do you have your system updated with the latest packages?
Are you playing those games natively or through proton, if through proton, you could try and change versions, sometimes it helps.
Also, how did you start to play games on arch (I mean did you installed only steam or also lutris and all the needed packages to play games on linux)?
If no, I recommend you to go to https://christitus.com/ultimate-linux-gaming-guide/ and install:
- AMD drivers (since you have integrated AMD chip);
- Lutris and whine dependencies.
Have you tried launching steam through a terminal and playing L4D2? If no, you could get info from the terminal on what exactly triggered such behavior.

Hi, Coel. I update my system every day.
I don't use proton, wine, etc. Only native games.
I installed only Steam. Tried once steam-native-runtime.
I installed all the packages suggested in the guide. Never tried ACO but added it to my environment now.
Also tried GameMode for a while but didn't see much difference, so I uninstalled it.

I tried launching it from the terminal: https://gist.github.com/TaylanTatli/37e … rminal-log

In a forum post, someone suggests disabling DPM with a kernel parameter, but my system doesn't start when I tried it.
Also, there is a server on L4D2 which I usually play, and I asked its owner to understand what is the problem. He said there is a shader problem, so there must be a problem with your GPU.
I tried mesa-git today, but nothing changed. Valve didn't answer my bug report. There is nothing left I can try. I will just wait, with some updates I hope this will be fixed.
Thank you.

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#1 2022-10-27 15:44:25

Some Steam Games Crash Constantly

#2 2022-10-27 22:24:16

Re: Some Steam Games Crash Constantly

#3 2022-10-27 23:30:47

Re: Some Steam Games Crash Constantly

#4 2022-10-29 01:58:29

Re: Some Steam Games Crash Constantly

#5 2022-11-04 16:33:45

Re: Some Steam Games Crash Constantly

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