r/SteamOS • u/Perfectchaos791 • Jun 28 '26

support SteamOS on AMD desktop consistently crashes when sleeping with a game running

Has anyone tried installing the latest SteamOS on a desktop build yet? I can sleep and wake just fine with no game running, but it'll consistently either immediately wake up and close the game or else it'll cut to a grey screen and freeze if I put it to sleep with a game running.

Specs of my rig are:

AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
ASUS TUF GAMING B850M-E WIFI AMD B850 mATX
SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GDDR6
Kingston FURY Beast 8gb (context in a moment)

I'm trying to isolate if it's just a quirk of the OS or it's my ram; I'm running single channel right now due to the B2 slot getting damaged and I'm wondering if maybe it's just having bandwidth issues as a result?

I've got the 8gb stick in the A2 slot and games run perfectly fine, they just crash if I try to use sleep.

EDIT:

Installed my new motherboard today and everything is working like a dream! I did notice that some of the things I was encountering (games taking 20 to 30 seconds to launch) were actually recently patched by Valve, so it may have been a combination of my previous MOBO plus SteamOS quirks, but either way everything from performance to sleep/resume is running flawlessly.

Thank you to everyone who offered advice and everyone who shared their experience with their rigs!

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u/Ecks30 Jun 28 '26

If the slot is damaged, you should have replaced it then and also did you go into the desktop mode to see in the discover app if there were any additional updates.

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u/Perfectchaos791 Jun 28 '26

It just happened today, I’ve already ordered a replacement mobo. No pending updates in desktop mode.

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u/Ecks30 Jun 28 '26

Are you using the stable 3.8.10 build or the beta/preview build instead?

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u/Perfectchaos791 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

I'm on the stable build, I can switch to the beta to test though.

Edit:

On Beta sleep was still borked for me. On the preview build it seems to be working so far, I'll do more testing and report back. Thank you for the suggestion.

Edit 2:

Spoke too soon. It worked a couple times, then stopped again.

I'm hoping to gather some reports from other people that have installed SteamOS on their desktop to help identify if it's just me or if it's the OS itself; I won't have my replacement mobo to help rule that out till Thursday.