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Steam randomly crashing on zen 4 cpu

steamclosed Distro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13275 · opened 2026-05-30 by henry61016 · updated 2026-05-30 · 0 comments · github
Hhenry61016 2026-05-30 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1779486452
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Cachyos
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD

a few weeks ago I updated my cachyos-bore install to the new 7.0 version and soon began experiencing a strange issue where steam would randomly crash both itself and freeze whatever steam game I'm playing, sometimes it'd crash after a few minutes and sometimes after a couple of hours. Eventually after some trouble shooting I switched to cachyos from arch which still didn't solve the issue. my specs are: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT with 31.26 GiB of memory

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Open steam with cachyos 7.0+ kernel
  2. Play a game
  3. Crash any from a few minutes to a few hours

Edit: After some more research I discovered this is likely an issue with my power supply since most the games I play use a lot of my pc's resources and I do have a rather old power supply which may be giving me an inconsistent voltage + I have not seen this issue reported anywhere else as of the last month. I'll close this for now

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