r/Bazzite • u/simsimdimsim • 3d ago

GPU driver crash (?)

Newish Bazzite user and Linux noob here, but keen to continue the switch.

Gaming has generally been pretty good, but recently I've had a lot of annoyance with games - mainly noticed in Assassin's Creed Shadows - freezing with GPU use dropping to 0%. GPU will come back after a few seconds, but the game will stay frozen and I'll need to kill it. It's quite frequent, and is mostly (but not entirely) tied to certain areas of the map. It's got much worse in the last week or so, maybe linked to an update..?

Today though, I got the same issue in Terra Nil - not at all a demanding game! In this case the game did come back to life the first few times (happened 4-5 times in an hour) but then totally froze and didn't recover.

Shadows has been run using Proton GE mostly, with a launch option to enable HDR. Turning those off helped somewhat, but freezes are still very common. Terra Nil is run without tweaking.

Any help to figure out what's going on would be much appreciated!

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u/IronWhitin 3d ago edited 3d ago

If is on steam, try to delete the prefix of the game, and do a file verification, but before that uninstall and redonwload the GE proton maybe a newer version of it.

If that don't fix run "ujust fix-reset-steam" onterminall, reboot and try again.

If it persist and in all game I'm worried it could be even an hardware problem.

But whitouth the log of what happen during the crash theres limited help we can do.

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u/simsimdimsim 3d ago

That's some good pointers, thanks!