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CranberryCurry

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Registered: 2023-05-26

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[SOLVED] KDE: Plasmashell hanging while gaming

I have this issue specifically when playing certain games, and only those. Stuff like Guild Wars 2, MH Wilds beta, and FFXIV.
Occasionally this will instead be a simple crash, everything shuts down and it's time to go again. Most of the time though, it just hangs. It seems to rewind my desktop in time and then only use one monitor to show a frozen image of a time minutes past. Sound from that monitor will continue. Only once have I had it start up after waiting, and that was probably about an hour of time. I've tried to do the troubleshooting for this, reading the wiki for journalctl, but I think I just don't know enough yet to come up with a solution on my own/parse the data and connect it with the wiki. Thanks for the help.

Here's my journalctl:
https://0x0.st/XGN5.txt

EDIT: after 90 days of testing, finally by booting up modded minecraft did I realize all of those games were RAM intensive. Plasmashell was hanging due to RAM overload. Upgraded my RAM from 16gb to 32gb and have not had one issue since.

Last edited by CranberryCurry (2025-01-27 18:38:52)

CranberryCurry

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE: Plasmashell hanging while gaming

Hey, if I’m missing some info, please reach out and let me know. As well if you read over the logs and decided there were too many issues and I should just restart my machine… well I’ve had it for a while so I wouldn’t be opposed. I just want to make sure it’s not an issue that wouldn’t be solved by doing that more so.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE: Plasmashell hanging while gaming

The amdgpu driver shits the bed and with it everything else. FWIW since xwayland is involved, make sure xf86-video-amdgpu is not installed.

FWIW2 from the actual crash info we have, this might be a resurface of the old BAR issues a few kernels ago, try enabling resizable BAR in your UEFI (update said UEFI, should the option not be present).

FWIW3 according to the id's this should be a 6900XT which I also have and no freezing issues here.

Last edited by V1del (2024-11-03 18:27:00)

CranberryCurry

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE: Plasmashell hanging while gaming

I'll check my UEFI, but it seems that I am rocking an amdgpu driver from my dmesg. You recommend AMDGPU Pro then? The tip for the prop. said most users wouldn't need that driver, so I am checking.
Thanks

CranberryCurry

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE: Plasmashell hanging while gaming

seems I have mesa already, should I just uninstall xf86-video-amdgpu without replacement?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE: Plasmashell hanging while gaming

xf86-video-amdgpu has no relation to the prop driver and yes this is what I'm suggesting.