Drives are brand new and health checked.

Kind of my thoughts as well. Think ill switch to gnome to see if i run into the same problem. Thanks.

I believe I may have been experiencing the same on a RTD 4080 Super. I have tried various distros using KDE Plasma over the last year and all seem to eventually do this kind of behavior. Out of nowhere the mouse will start to “lag” and then the screen freezes and if I wait a few more seconds, the computer reboots itself.

Has happened on CachyOS, Garuda Linux KDE Lite, Bazzite, and one other I can’t remember.

Last night I dug into my logs and various forums and it seems it may be related to Wayland. It just doesn’t play nice with Nvidia and some drivers.

So I refreshed again to Linux Mint Cinnamon which uses x11. I’ve been gaming for hours and installing games and have not had this happen yet. Things have been much more smooth.

When I was on CachyOS, I tried what you did and switched to x11, but KDE recently moved to Wayland exclusively, so maybe it was still relying on something for Wayland or some other component was causing issues?

Either way, I want to say I found the issue here. Things have been fine so far with no bugs. I would have experienced it by now with a distro with Wayland.

I’ve had my system often freezing randomly when my hard drive began to fail. Could that be the cause?

Huh. Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try the next time I play.

Bazzite KDE NVIDIA RTX 5070 with AMD Ryzen 7 randomly freezes

https://lemmy.world/post/42213720

I did some extra checking, and it sounds like for Linux, there isn’t really a true exclusive fullscreen, but some games will behave differently depending on which mode you choose (because of how they’ve been coded). If you’re getting bad tearing in borderless but not fullscreen, it may be one of those finicky cases.

It’s strange that you can’t turn on frame gen in fullscreen, though. Maybe it’s a bug that you should report.

I haven’t had an occasion to try it, but CachyOS’s Proton supposedly has FSR 4 support. Maybe try that version…? Details here:

cachyos.org/blog/2508-august-release/

DaVinci Resolve Setup Guide

https://sh.itjust.works/post/54133968

I’ve just started using Bazzite myself. Years ago I used Ubuntu but have been stuck with windows for quite some time. After a few teething problems it’s starting to look very positive. Am especially grateful for the “ujust” command that someone showed me just now. Will definitely stick with it for at least 2026 as you said.

There’s no option named variable refresh rate. But there is one called Adaptive sync. It’s set to Always.

If VRR can’t work in borderless windowed mode, I guess I’ll have to give up on it for this game. Because I get distracting frame drops without Frame Gen. A bit unfortunate I’d have performance compromises with my brand new graphics card, but I heard this is normal for UE5 games.

I’m not sure if its Bazzite, or nVidia, or what, but any time I turn frame gen on it makes my games run like shit. This goes for every game and I have two PCs it does it on.

I also cant seem to get adaptive sync to work properly. I am on the gnome version, maybe thats related? Most of my games boot with a black screen when its turned on. V sync seems to work fine and did for me in Clair obscur too.

• Is Variable Refresh Rate enabled in your system settings for that monitor? If it’s turned off, no game settings will change that.
• Second, my understanding is that VRR only works for Fullscreen games. Borderless probably won’t work.
• Third, V-sync does not work with VRR. You are correct to turn that off.

I’m no expert, so hopefully that helps!

Wait, so that means FreeSync would NOT have worked, since it doesn’t now?

Would exclusive full screen have been fine?

Probably. I think Proton puts everything into a window either way.

Good to know. Though to be honest, probably because it’s 1. a turn-based game, 2. one I’m playing on a wireless controller, I’m not noticing it.

So I guess even V-Sync is fine for this game. But it’s this were a more latency-sensitive game, it might’ve been annoying.

What should I have done then?

Would exclusive full screen have been fine?

Frame generation will add a lot more lag than vsync.

FreeSync not working in Clair Obscur?

https://lemmy.ca/post/59211586

I’m not an expert but… Bazzite is based on fedora so most fedora command lines will work the same in bazzite. Most. Since bazzite is immutable it’s not going to let you change some of the system files which might be frustrating but it’s like that to prevent breakage. Bazzite also has specific bazzite command line stuff like ujust. You could also run nobara which is also fedora based gaming distro but it’s not immutable. So you have freedom to break things but also get built in driver’s and stuff. I’ve had better luck with bazzite but it’s an option. Good luck

Honestly, if she’s using bazzite learn to troubleshoot in bazzite.

It’s a pretty stable OS, immutable so you can’t fuck it up too bad, and mostly just works out of the box in my experience. Some games don’t work, but that usually comes down to the dev be shithats than the game itself.

Actually, it’s your ultimate goal. You said you want her PC to not break. And you want to accomplish it by learning and then fixing it yourself. Well, I’m here trying to help you diagnose the issue & possible solutions.

I was trying to collaborate with you. Help me help you.

To answer your question, Bazzite and all other diestros developed by Universal Blue project are all downstream modifications of the Fedora Silverblue base image, which in turn is downstream of Fedora itself.

If you want to use the closest thing to Bazzite but you don’t want it to be focused on gaming, you could go for Aurora or Bluefin (both Universal Blue distros).

But if the issues she’s having are related to GPU stuff, you should use the same hardware and compositor (valve’s gamescope/KDE plasma kwin/ gnome mutter) which depends on the distro and variant you pick.