E: please read the entire post before replying…

Hi all. For the last several years I’ve been using Bazzite/Gamescope on my desktop, and even before that I was using it with ChimeraOS. It’s been really great and I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly. Unfortunately I’ve begun to experience issues with games freezing. Within an hour of firing up a game, the image freezes. Audio continues playing on a loop. I’m able to pull up the menu and exit out of the game no problem. But then I fire it up and the same thing happens again.

I don’t really know how to diagnose this issue but I reinstalled Bazzite fresh, same issue. Installed CachyOS-Handheld, same issue. However I tried launching games from the desktop mode and I’ve now spent ~20 hours gaming with no issue, but this is certainly not ideal. Any ideas on potential fixes?

E: AMD 5700x + 6800XT 16GB

  • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    Software packages that are different

    No?

    What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.

    So…different software? Those are all software.

    That’s literally where the name of “distro” comes from.

    The name comes from different distributions of Linux that come packaged with different software .

    I don’t know what semantics game you’re trying to play here or how it’s supposed to help me fix my machine but I’m out.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      7 hours ago

      No.

      We use the word distro because they’re not really a fully separate OS. Just a different preset with either a lot or almost nothing swapped out as compared to the next.

      You are so hung up being correct here you’re missing what I’m actually trying to teach you.

      You need to be comparing different versions, not distros. Because the same version of the same software is going to have the same problem, no matter what distro you use.

      You don’t even know how to access system logs, and you expect to understand enough about this stuff to successfully correct me on why trying a different distro isn’t that helpful for troubleshooting?

      • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        13·
        7 hours ago

        I’m not missing anything. What you’re missing is that there are 2 different graphical compositors (AKA software). One works, and one doesn’t. On the same hardware. So it’s not a hardware issue.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
          31·
          7 hours ago

          AND I AM TELLING YOU TO DOWNGRADE THEM SO YOU CAN SEE IF AN EARLIER VERSION WORKS CORRECTLY, INSTEAD OF SWAPPING OUT THE ENTIRE DISTRO

          ONLY TO TRY THE EXACT SAME COMPOSITOR AS IF THAT WOULD FIX IT

          So instead of that, try earlier versions! Different distros from the same date are obviously likely to be running similar versions of Gamescope or whatever else might be the cause.