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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 707

Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

DISCLOSURE

I originally posted in this thread thinking my issue is very similar, but as it was closed I'm creating a new one.

THE POINT

After almost 11 years it seems, that this kind of problem affected my laptop.

It's a very difficult issue to trace, as only some games (Civilization VI, Alien Isolation) are affected, but other (Stellaris, Planescape Torment, Tropico) aren't.

It looks as the screen freezes on load, usually before it gets to the game menu, and then I cannot do anything but a "hard" restart. No key combination seems to work, although I can set a schedule for a restart in the console that will save me the need for a manual power off.

The same issue seems to affect one of Basemark GPU tests, but only the one utilizing OpenGL, not the Vulkan test. Maybe it's related to OpenGL and my dual GPU configuration (I have a laptop with Intel's iGPU and nVIDIA dGPU). All the games I run with prime-run command though, but it looks as there could be some kind of a conflict.

$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-S) (0xa788)
    Version: 23.0.2
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 64000MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-S)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.0.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.0.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 23.0.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

Any ideas?

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

You have looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … ization_VI and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … _Isolation ?

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Zibi1981

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 707

Re: Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

I was using the workaround for Civilization VI on my previous Arch installation with great success, but this time it's something different. I also don't think that's the case described for Alien Isolation.

While testing I decided to try to run Alien Isolation under a Wayland session instead of Xorg, which I prefer, and the game seems to run great (at least for couple minutes). Does that mean it's X-server related, or maybe some drivers (Intel iGPU?) aren't affected by some bugs under Wayland?

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

maybe some drivers (Intel iGPU?)

Do you have xf86-video-intel installed ?

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 707

Re: Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

Do you have xf86-video-intel installed ?

Nope, I uninstalled it previously, as it was responsible for some Xorg issues and glitches.

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seth

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Re: Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

No key combination seems to work, although I can set a schedule for a restart in the console that will save me the need for a manual power off.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq)

But even a scheduled restart would preserve the journal - and thus hopefully some error messages?
Maybe also in your xorg log?

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 707

Re: Some games crash on startup, other run smoothly. An OpenGL bug?

OK, that's pretty weird. After running Alien Isolation under Wayland session without any issues, now the game seems to run also under X
I don't have the slightest notion what is going on, or maybe rather what was going on, but I'll try tu get a little bit deeper into this in the coming days.

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