I’ve recently migrated from endeavour OS to debian for more stability (I updated my endeavour os and a huge graphical bug occurred, so I just gave up on arch based distros).

Then I installed steam following this tutorial https://wiki.debian.org/Steam#Installing_Steam, but I noticed that after playing Farlight 84 for a few minutes, the game would behave in 1 of these 2 ways:

  1. The game and steam closes.
  2. The whole OS freezes and the only solution is to restart the laptop.

I think it’s something ram related, but the game never closed nor crashed my whole system on endeavour os, so maybe is something about a graphical driver?

Here’s my neofetch output, please tell me if I need to provide some additional output:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64

Host: 82X5 IdeaPad 1 15AMN7

Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64

Packages: 2158 (dpkg)  Shell: bash 5.2.15

Resolution: 1366x768  DE: Plasma 5.27.5

WM: KWin

Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]

Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]

Terminal: konsole

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics (8) @ 2.800GHz

GPU: AMD ATI 04:00.0 Mendocino

Memory: 2816MiB / 6663MiB

    • littletranspunk@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Also, I’ve had this problem on a laptop. The problem is more likely that you’re underutilizing the GPU and so the whole graphics load is put on the CPU. Try cranking up the graphics settings as well.

      Not everyone has one, but try connecting to a TV, 1080p monitor (with both screens running), or a higher res display (2k/4k) with the laptop screen off. The added load will utilize the GPU more and the game won’t crash.

      My issue was with Rocket League and it would crash like this so I kept turning graphics settings down which made the issue more frequent. I recently got a new desktop with a 2k monitor and, before the actual computer parts arrived, I played games on the laptop through the 2k display with no issues whatsoever.

      Laptops are a different breed that will need more utilization of the GPU in some cases since the graphics aren’t handled solely by the GPU

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    Debian isn’t the best choice if you’re a gamer. That kernel for instance (6.1) is ancient, you’re missing out on a ton of cool features and improvements which have been made since then. Your graphics stack (Mesa) is also likely to be outdated.

    I’d recommend switching back to EndeavourOS, or if you’d like something more stable, try Nobara. Another alternative, if you favor stability, is Bazzite - which is an immutable OS with a built-in rollback feature, so if you find an update broke something you could just select the previous version of the image from GRUB and keep it pinned, until it’s fixed (you’ll still get app updates though via Distrobox, Flatpak etc).