https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512805
Bug ID: 512805
Summary: Kwin freezes while gaming
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version First unspecified
Reported In:
Platform: Arch Linux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: critical
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
While playing any game via proton kwin sporadically freezes seemingly at random
but regularly enough to be an issue.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE (i can reliably get a kwin freeze by:)
1. Starting a game like Soulframe
2. Setting Volumetric Fog detail to high (causes freeze quicker and reliably)
or medium
3. Run around for ~1-2 minutes in the overworld
OBSERVED RESULT
tty1 freezing and after a few seconds an old screencap that is minutes old
becomes finally displayed (some memory leak?). The game's sound also stops but
resumes every now and then while other processes like media playing in a
browser are unaffected. I can switch to another tty via ctrl+alt+f3 and enter
commands but that's that.
EXPECTED RESULT
Not freezing
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
❯ kinfo
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.9-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GB of RAM (31.3 GB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I have not confirmed that this also may happen with linux native games but
shouldn't matter regardless.
I don't remember this happening before plasma 6 and proton 10 but is consistent
across different distros and proton versions (proton-cachyos proton-ge
proton-tkg).
"journalctl -b -1|tail -n 100" is not showing anything during that freeze and
nvidia-bug-report.sh also is not reporting any errors what so ever.
The underlying issue probably is caused by nvidia as always but regardless
should not result in an unrecoverable kwin freeze that forces a reboot.
I'm not sure how to properly trace this issue down as it's not a crash.
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