Steam Games with Proton freeze after few seconds

gestalt · 2025-02-18 07:30:04

For quite some time now I can't play any steam games using my dedicated nvidia gpu. The game launches and freezes after just a few seconds. This was previously working just fine about 6-12 months ago.

my system info

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: 20QQS00600 ThinkPad P53
Kernel: 6.13.2-arch1-1
Uptime: 8 hours, 55 mins
Packages: 1371 (pacman)
Shell: zsh 5.9
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080
DE: i3-with-shmlog
WM: i3
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: xterm
CPU: Intel i7-9850H (12) @ 4.600GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro T1000 Mobile
GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
Memory: 7330MiB / 31704MiB

Here is an example error log for Football Manager 2024
https://pastebin.com/EYFLQQDK

Games are working with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%, but the performance is borderline playable.

lspci -tvnn

-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:3ec4]
+-01.0-[01]--+-00.0 NVIDIA Corporation TU117GLM [Quadro T1000 Mobile] [10de:1fb9]
| \-00.1 NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:10fa]
+-02.0 Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [8086:3e9b]
+-04.0 Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903]
+-08.0 Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
+-12.0 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller [8086:a379]
+-14.0 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:a36d]
+-14.2 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM [8086:a36f]
+-15.0 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:a368]
+-15.1 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:a369]
+-16.0 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller [8086:a360]
+-16.3 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Active Management Technology - SOL [8086:a363]
+-1b.0-[02]----00.0 Intel Corporation SSD DC P4101/Pro 7600p/760p/E 6100p Series [8086:f1a6]
+-1c.0-[04-51]----00.0-[05-51]--+-00.0-[06]----00.0 Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 NHI [Titan Ridge 4C 2018] [8086:15eb]
| +-01.0-[07-2b]--
| +-02.0-[2c]----00.0 Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller [Titan Ridge 4C 2018] [8086:15ec]
| \-04.0-[2d-51]--
+-1c.5-[52]----00.0 Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 [8086:2723]
+-1c.6-[53]----00.0 Intel Corporation XMM7360 LTE Advanced Modem [8086:7360]
+-1c.7-[54]----00.0 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:525a]
+-1e.0 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller [8086:a328]
+-1f.0 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake LPC Controller [8086:a30e]
+-1f.3 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS [8086:a348]
+-1f.4 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller [8086:a323]
+-1f.5 Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller [8086:a324]
\-1f.6 Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM [8086:15bb]

local/dkms 3.1.5-1
Dynamic Kernel Modules System
local/egl-gbm 1.1.2-1
The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.17-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-x11 1.0.0-1
NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/eglexternalplatform 1.2-2
EGL External Platform interface
local/freeglut 3.6.0-1
Free OpenGL Utility Toolkit
local/gegl 0.4.54-1
Graph based image processing framework
local/glew 2.2.0-7
The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
local/glslang 15.1.0-1
OpenGL and OpenGL ES shader front end and validator
local/glu 9.0.3-2
Mesa OpenGL utility library
local/intel-ucode 20250211-1
Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
local/lib32-glu 9.0.3-2
Mesa OpenGL utility library (32 bits)
local/lib32-libepoxy 1.5.10-2
Library handling OpenGL function pointer management
local/lib32-libglvnd 1.7.0-1
The GL Vendor-Neutral Dispatch library
local/lib32-libva 2.22.0-1
Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxxf86vm 1.1.5-2
X11 XFree86 video mode extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa 1:24.3.4-1
Open-source OpenGL drivers - 32-bit
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 570.86.16-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/lib32-ocl-icd 2.3.2-2
OpenCL ICD Bindings (32-bit)
local/lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.303-1
Vulkan Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader (32-bit)
local/lib32-wayland 1.23.1-1
A computer display server protocol
local/libdecor 0.2.2-1
Client-side decorations library for Wayland clients
local/libepoxy 1.5.10-3
Library handling OpenGL function pointer management
local/libglvnd 1.7.0-1
The GL Vendor-Neutral Dispatch library
local/libmfx 23.2.2-3
Intel Media SDK dispatcher library
local/libteam 1.32-2
Library for controlling team network device
local/libva 2.22.0-1
Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libvpl 2.14.0-1
Intel Video Processing Library
local/libxnvctrl 570.86.16-1
NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/libxxf86vm 1.1.6-1
X11 XFree86 video mode extension library
local/mesa 1:24.3.4-1
Open-source OpenGL drivers
local/mesa-utils 9.0.0-5
Essential Mesa utilities
local/nvidia-open 570.86.16-6
NVIDIA open kernel modules
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-5
NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvidia-settings 570.86.16-1
Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 570.86.16-2
NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/ocl-icd 2.3.2-2
OpenCL ICD Bindings
local/onetbb 2022.0.0-2
High level abstract threading library (oneAPI Threading Building Blocks)
local/qt6-shadertools 6.8.2-1 (qt6)
Provides functionality for the shader pipeline that allows Qt Quick to operate on Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D, in addition to OpenGL
local/qt6-wayland 6.8.2-1 (qt6)
Provides APIs for Wayland
local/sddm 0.21.0-6
QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
local/spirv-tools 2024.4.rc2-1 (vulkan-devel)
API and commands for processing SPIR-V modules
local/steam 1.0.0.82-1
Valve's digital software delivery system
local/v4l2loopback-dkms 0.13.2-1
v4l2-loopback device – module sources
local/vulkan-headers 1:1.4.303-1 (vulkan-devel)
Vulkan header files
local/vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.303-1
Vulkan Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader
local/vulkan-tools 1.4.303-2 (vulkan-devel)
Vulkan Utilities and Tools
local/wayland 1.23.1-1
A computer display server protocol
local/wayland-protocols 1.41-1
Specifications of extended Wayland protocols
local/wine 10.1-1
A compatibility layer for running Windows programs
local/xf86-input-libinput 1.5.0-1 (xorg-drivers)
Generic input driver for the X.Org server based on libinput
local/xf86-input-synaptics 1.10.0-1 (xorg-drivers)
Synaptics driver for notebook touchpads
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.18-1 (xorg-drivers)
Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.1.0-1 (xorg-fonts xorg)
X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-server 21.1.15-1 (xorg)
Xorg X server
local/xorg-server-common 21.1.15-1 (xorg)
Xorg server common files
local/xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.4-2 (xorg-apps xorg)
Set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension
local/xorg-xauth 1.1.3-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
X.Org authorization settings program
local/xorg-xbacklight 1.2.4-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
RandR-based backlight control application
local/xorg-xclock 1.1.1-2
X clock
local/xorg-xinput 1.6.4-2 (xorg-apps xorg)
Small commandline tool to configure devices
local/xorg-xkbcomp 1.4.7-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
X Keyboard description compiler
local/xorg-xprop 1.2.8-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
Property displayer for X
local/xorg-xrandr 1.5.3-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
Primitive command line interface to RandR extension
local/xorg-xrdb 1.2.2-2 (xorg-apps xorg)
X server resource database utility
local/xorg-xset 1.2.5-2 (xorg-apps xorg)
User preference utility for X
local/xorgproto 2024.1-2
combined X.Org X11 Protocol headers

lo7777799 · 2025-03-04 14:08:11

gestalt wrote:

For quite some time now I can't play any steam games using my dedicated nvidia gpu. The game launches and freezes after just a few seconds. This was previously working just fine about 6-12 months ago.

Here is an example error log for Football Manager 2024
https://pastebin.com/EYFLQQDK

hello,

i also have freeze sometimes with games.

i have questions, because i am "new" in linux gaming.

with which commands can i read out an error log like that, i have quoted from you?

i see, you have an error log. thats 1 log. how much logs are there in linux gaming and what are the commands to read it out?

Arch Linux

#1 2025-02-18 07:30:04

Steam Games with Proton freeze after few seconds

#2 2025-03-04 14:08:11

Re: Steam Games with Proton freeze after few seconds

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