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Recurrent complete freeze with multiple cards

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8632 · opened 2025-04-29 by felipec · updated 2025-09-20 · 3 comments · github
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Ffelipec 2025-04-29 github

Many people keep having recurring freezes with Deadlock (audio keeps working, but everything else is permanently stuck). I initially thought it was a Deadlock issue, but Schedule I has the same problem, except it happens way more often (typically in less than 5 minutes). It makes Schedule I literally unplayable.

However, I just found out that it only happens on Xorg, I tried running both games on hyprland and the both worked fine for a long while.

Whatever is causing the freeze happens in all versions of Proton (including Proton-GE 9-27) and it happens in all the drivers (I tested amdgpu and proprietary nvidia).

Llou-perret 2025-04-30 github

Hello, same freezes since the latest Experimental update, but with KDE Wayland.

Also, I can't use the key "2" on my azerty keyboard since the same update. It seems to work with Proton 9-4

Ffelipec 2025-05-19 github

@lou-perret that's a different issue. My issue only happens on Xorg.

I also found a way to workaround the issue, if I manually specify a single device on my Xorg config, the issue goes away:

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Card1"
	Driver "amdgpu"
	BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

If I add the nvidia card, the issue appears again.

I also found that in KDE it doesn't happen as often, but with nvglxfix's xspam it's easy to reproduce.

So it seems the problem happens when there's more than one card.

JJm56Z 2025-09-20 github

Apparently it does indeed only happen on Xorg. Switched to Wayland, didn't have any problem since (one game in particular - Planet Crafter - crashed systematically after barely 2 minutes. I could get myself an entire game session on Wayland).

The issue with KDE Plasma is its instability, but hey, my games work !

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