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DFran49

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Registered: 2025-06-25

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Heavy games instalation freezes my system [SOLVED]

Hi, second time arch linux user here. I've been using arch linux with hyprland and linux/linux-lts kernels for a few months now, having small problems that I kept fixing. Then, I tried installing Overwatch 2 via steam, and my system froze (Getting kernel panic whenever that happened using linux kernel). The problem also happens when updating android studio for example or when installing other heavy games like wuthering waves (I know it has anticheat, I just wanted to try things).

Well, I've tried everything. Testing ram, testing my nvme disks, using flatpak steam, pacman steam, using different versions of proton, using gamemode, using bottles to install via battle.net, and even changing to plasma just to make sure. But it doesn't get fixed.

I have zram, and two swapfiles that I'm pretty sure are well configurated. My / and my home are lvm and ext4 and my games partition is lvm and xfs too.

I followed the arch install guide and did it by hand, and I don't have other problems like this. I'm starting to get annoyed to the point of thinking to reinstall the whole system.

If someone knows about something that could work or has a theory it's welcome!

Last edited by DFran49 (2025-06-26 21:53:38)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Heavy games instalation freezes my system [SOLVED]

You did disable zswap as mentioned in the top colored box on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram ?

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DFran49

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Registered: 2025-06-25

Posts: 2

Re: Heavy games instalation freezes my system [SOLVED]

No, I hadn't disabled zswap, but I don't think that's the problem, because I have 48gb of ram and the zram wasn't ever reached. And the issue was happening before I setup-ed zram, so I think that shouldn't be related, but I have just done that and I'm trying to replicate the error, so when I know if it works or not I'll tell you.

And thanks! That thing I overlooked can avoid having me hating my life in the future xD

EDIT
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Well, so I tried and it froze again. I took a look at the resource monitor (Which I had open) and it wasn't weird or anything.

EDIT AGAIN
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I finally fixed it. It was a problem with the binder module, being repeated or something like that (It was weird, so I kind of have already forgotten). I removed the dkms module "binder" and now everything works fine.

Last edited by DFran49 (2025-06-26 21:53:21)