So far I experienced lockups in very first Linux beta build of Rocket League and in Team Fortress 2. Haven’t played any other games that much to find anything similar, except for Europa Universalis IV but in 50+ hrs in the last two weeks I haven’t got any alike problems there.
When that thing happens the whole screen suddenly turns in some solid color (I think in different times I saw different shades of light brown and black colors), I still can hear sounds. Judging by sounds game freezes shortly after moment where I’m loosing picture on monitor (but not instantly - I still can hear game noises for a few seconds). Also if there were mumble or player running in the background I still can hear voices/music and (if I recall correctly).
Whole system is completely unresponsive during the whole thing: I can’t Alt+Tab, Switch desktops, kill X server with a bind, access TTY or even safe reboot with Alt+SysRq+RSEIUB. Only way to get PC back to working state is hard reboot.
Nevertheless I’m able to connect to PC through ssh with my phone. And I’m able to run console commands through it.
In the first public Linux beta build of Rocket League that problem happened very often I’d say every 30~45 minutes, in Team Fortress 2 it happening rarely but with inconsistent periodicity - usually once every 15~20 hrs of gameplay, maybe even more rare.
Last time (today) it happened during a competitive match (gladly - just a scrim, not an official game). So I had to quickly reboot system and join back to server as fast as possible, while my team where in numbers disadvantage. I rebooted, joined the server again and got hangup with same blank screen in less than a minute of gameplay. This time I wasted some time to do
sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh --safe-mode
(it were hanging up without “–safe-mode”). Then I rebooted again, rejoined server and got a blank screen third time. I ran same command again. By the time I rebooted for the 3rd time, game already ended and server reservation ended. So I went to another server and played few hours without any troubles.
It was quite unusual with that rate of hungups. I can’t say for sure if I ever rejoined same server (with the same settings, map and users on it) again after crashing.
I didn’t succeed with setting up “-logverbose 6” - still can’t figure how to use it. I’d like it just to run on the system’s startup.
Here’s what I got today from Team Fortress 2:
First report: https://mega.nz/#!N1YRlLaZ!yunCPiACNdlsj_SoQqAglumzKrafbtMeLLO_KBpXenE
Second report: https://mega.nz/#!A9ozHY7a!SiXGT29PmjAPiZiptHZmb3J7PhTONymvr07MBnUUQsA
Also here’s the reports I got from Rocket League hanups on September 10 (with the first Linux beta build):
This one I ran without “–safe-mode” and it hanged: https://mega.nz/#!Egg3SBgT!f4HnG7wpCIVPudVgyxVAUFOyjN-LTGhxk536MhijMfQ
And this one I ran with “–safe-mode”: https://mega.nz/#!klZwQQDL!0tDWbKSPsTmiyKgIxk82RwkDqzOWbVbJpLwOqBrg9h8
And here is my Steam’s System information:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Unknown
Model: Unknown
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x3f
CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3600 Mhz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
"Manjaro Linux" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 4.4.20-1-MANJARO
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11804000
X Window Manager: Openbox
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-beta-release_2016-06-15
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 370.28
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 74 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x13c2
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1440 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1440 x 900
Primary Display Size: 16.14" x 10.24" (19.09" diag)
41.0cm x 26.0cm (48.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 4096 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC1150
Memory:
RAM: 15947 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 432983 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 166458 Mb
VR Headset: None detected
Recent Failure Reports: