Solved Issues with games crashing when loading new areas

[Rylen]

I am having issues with games crashing and it always seems to be when a new area is being loaded. I have a 6800xt and 5800x3d. I have tried a fresh install of bazzite and pop os and it happened with both, I have only tried games with proton but I have tried multiple platinum games and it happens with all proton versions I tried. Any ideas why? lmk if I can provide any more info that would be helpful

 

[Trml]

If loading new areas refers to the graphical rendering (not network traffic getting hic-ups), try saving your bios/uefi settings to a profile slot if possible and reset the mainboard to default settings (i.e. default RAM speed too). See if that changes things.

Also double-check the distro applies the amd microcode updates (it has to be integrated into the boot).

 

[CaffeineAddict]

sudo lnav -r /var/log/

Reproduce the problem and take a look into output of lnav to possibly find what's the issue.

2nd option, run game from CLI with debug option if there is one, or look into game logs, they may in a place other than /var/log.

 

[Rylen]

If loading new areas refers to the graphical rendering (not network traffic getting hic-ups), try saving your bios/uefi settings to a profile slot if possible and reset the mainboard to default settings (i.e. default RAM speed too). See if that changes things.

Also double-check the distro applies the amd microcode updates (it has to be integrated into the boot).

Sorry for the late reply but resetting the bios settings fixed it! Still not sure what it was because I changed everything back to how I had it and it still works but thanks I really appreciate it

 

[Trml]

Still not sure what it was because I changed everything back to how I had it and it still works

Sweet. Just one attempt to explain it: If you upgraded bios/uefi firmware sometime, there may have been vendor changes to the default and these in turn created inconsistency leading to the crashes. You may not have associated it, because your custom settings looked the same with the new firmware and it appeared to work (e.g. crashes due to RAM OC happen with load/heat only). Always best to reset to default settings after a firmware upgrade, do one regular boot (to let it complete memory training with defaults), and only then reapply a saves preset profile or change settings back.

 

[Paul Chase]

Sweet. Just one attempt to explain it: If you upgraded bios/uefi firmware sometime, there may have been vendor changes to the default and these in turn created inconsistency leading to the crashes. You may not have associated it, because your custom settings looked the same with the new firmware and it appeared to work (e.g. crashes due to RAM OC happen with load/heat only). Always best to reset to default settings after a firmware upgrade, do one regular boot (to let it complete memory training with defaults), and only then reapply a saves preset profile or change settings back.

I had something really similar and for me it ended up being RAM/BIOS related, not the GPU or Proton.
Crashes on loading new areas usually mean spikes in load, so unstable RAM/OC shows up there first. I reset BIOS to defaults and it stopped happening.
If you’ve got any XMP/EXPO or tweaks on, I’d try turning them off and see if it stabilizes.