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Title: Proton/Wine Games Locking Up

Caldathras 4 hours ago

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I recently took the plunge and upgraded the laptop I game on from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22.3 using the usual upgrade/update features (not a clean install). As an FYI, I use the graphics-driver PPA.

I have been experiencing a problem with Proton/Wine games that utilize my Nvidia dGPU. It's quite random but after anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes, the game screen locks up but the music keeps playing. I have to use Alt-Space to close/kill the game window.

From the log reports in Heroic and Lutris, Feral GameMode and gstreamer appear to be having trouble finding and/or loading support and library files. Disabling GameMode seemed to help delay the lock-up but it still happen eventually. As Steam does not load GameMode by default, I've concluded that GameMode cannot be the problem.

I've tested games set to run on my Intel iGPU and haven't experienced the lock-ups in those game sessions. Oddly, the Native Linux games utilizing the Nvidia dGPU do not appear to be affected either. All games ran perfectly fine in Mint 21.3.

I am thinking that the problem is likely the Nvidia driver and that I should purge the current Nvidia driver from the system, reboot and reinstall the driver using Device Manager.

Am I on the right path or is there something I might be missing?

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