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I'm experiencing a weird issue trying to play games via Steam.
I'm attempting to launch Potion Craft (new 2.0 release) with Arch Kernel 6.12.7 with KDE. The game launches, but the initial screen just loads to the game's first frame of the loading screen, then does nothing. I can hear that the game is running in the background (audio is fine) and I can tell that buttons are responding to mouse clicks (I accidentally changed the language), but the video display doesn't update.
I'm using a Framework 16 with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics with the dedicated AMD Radeon RX 7700S expansion card. I have `DRI_PRIME=1 %command%` in the launch options to try to assert the use of the dedicated GPU and that seems to be working (when checking with 'nvtop')
I've gotten through the stale graphics by tapping the "windows keys" to get the KDE Application Launcher to pop-up and refresh the screen, then the loading screen on Potion Craft works fine and the game will play. It seems that only the initial frame of the game stalls. If I don't hit the key at the right moment though, nothing works and I have to force-close the game and often reboot the whole system (there might be some other trick to getting the system to recover, but I haven't figured that out yet).
I'm also having weird issues with Path of Exile 2 where it will run for a while (maybe 0.5-1 hour) then it just totally starts to go downhill and the game stutters like crazy and becomes unplayable.
I played Factorio Space Age without any issues around it's release time, so it doesn't occur with every game.
I'm looking to see if other have had similar issues and if they've been able to resolve them, or if anyone has ideas on how to troubleshoot this.
I have vulkan-radeon and mesa installed.
UPDATE: It seems reverting to Kernel 6.10.9 (from 6.12.7) resolves the issue for Potion Craft (I haven't tried Poe2 yet). I found this as a suggestion in the Framework Community.
Last edited by mire3212 (2025-01-01 19:37:55)
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have you ever tried to use linux LTS instead ? if your other games doesn't works maybe that could help you. Getting the latest kernel is not neccesarly good for compatability and stability issues, but maybe for some reason you need it. But most of the time going LTS will solve a lot of these kind of issues.
Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-01-01 23:36:48)
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