Hi, I’ve recently made a switch to Bazzite from Win10 on my main comp which is “Asus ROG Strix G532LW” laptop, and been really enjoying it for the most part, runs great no weird glitches (most of the time) and performance overall is even better than Win. The few games that I’ve tried to run as well seem to be running great, slightly higher FPS and with more consistency no fps drops that I would often get on Win10 and even worse on Win11 which made me roll back to Win10 before switching to Bazzite.
But despite the overall great experience there is a big problem that I can’t figure out, every ones in awhile comp starts to stutter for about 10seconds, mouse gets choppy sounds starts crackling a bit followed by a full freeze of the system, not responding to any input at all the only way to fix is to hold power button and do forced shutdown/restart. Then its back to normal till it happens again, which can be in few hours or in few days.
This has happened few times while gaming and having discord on chatting with mates, and a few times while just doing regular stuff, one time was just doing some work and it decided to freeze, and a few times while just watching videos on youtube and no other program running in background, or while watching Plex. I can’t find any specific reason that would trigger it. I use laptop screen and an external monitor, after some googling I found some suggestions saying it could be nvidia driver issues combined with being a laptop and using multiple monitors. So I’ve tried only using 1 monitor to see if it makes a difference and no it happened again.
Anyone experienced something similar or have any suggestions? some people suggested trying out different distro but ideally I would prefer to stick with Bazzite and try solve this issue.
I’m new here I hope these forums is the right place to ask for help about this.
Specs from fastfetch:
bazzite-asus-nvidia-open:stable
Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
Linux 6.14.4-104.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
ROG Strix G532LW_GL532LW (1.0)
Intel(R) Core™ i7-10875H (16) @ 5.10 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.20 GHz [Integrated]
14.78 GiB / 31.12 GiB (48%)
40.50 MiB / 40.50 MiB (100%) - overlay [Read-only]
276.85 GiB / 952.28 GiB (29%) - btrfs [Read-only]
1920x1080 @ 144 Hz in 27" [External, HDR] *
1920x1080 @ 240 Hz in 16" [Built-in]
96% [AC Connected]
KDE Plasma 6.3.5
KWin (Wayland)
bash 5.2.37
Ptyxis 48.3
2669 (rpm), 85 (flatpak), 1 (brew)
I’ve experienced something similar with Brave, but it might just be Brave since I have a similar issue on my Windows 11 partition on the same device.
Other than that, potentially the memory? When I run a bit too much stuff, it starts to have issues. There’s no swap and I had UMA at 4GB initially which meant of my 16GB RAM it ate 4GB for VRAM. Changing it to Auto makes 14GB usable for RAM so I’ve had less issues running my browser and Resilio Sync at the same time.
I really don’t know what else could be the issue. Maybe kernel?
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Managed to catch it today while btop was running on another screen, started stuttering then froze, I looked at the other screen and both RAM and SWAP were at 100% for some reason. Didn’t really have much open at the time either, only about 10 tabs in Brave, Steam was downloading, and I was looking through “journalctl” in another console.
For 32gigs of RAM this is nothing, on windows ive had times where over 40tabs in Brave would be open, steam etc… and like 20 other apps open at same time with no issues. So this is very strange, any suggestions would it could be? memory leak? bad drivers? In the meantime I’ve increased SWAP from default 4gigs to 16gigs.
Anyone out there that can help?
“kwin_wayland” is the reason computer crashes, there is a memory leak problem, it keeps increasing in memory usage till it hits 100% and crashes comp.
Not sure if it will be entirely helpful, but at least on the gnome side for nvidia there has been a fractional scaling issue with multiple windows of different apps open. Try setting the desktop scaling to 100% or 200%…I had odd hard crashes/freezes (had to turn PC off with physical power button) with different apps open at 175% scaling. Sigh…when will fractional scaling be permanently fixed (not blaming anyone)… just such a buggy thing it is lol.
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Apparently it was an issue with Nvidia driver, they fixed it with latest version we just need Bazzite to include it with next update.
I’ve had a LOT of issues with NVIDIA drivers since I upgraded my PC with an NVIDIA card (from an AMD one) a few months ago. Issues with returning from sleep mode.
I knew about the risk, but really wanted a GPU capable of running local AI models at an affordable price. I can’t wait for AMD to catch up on the using-GPU-in-containers side, so my next upgrade is an AMD one.
I also had issues with a new Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card, again with returning from sleep: Ethernet and Bluetooth were down. I was on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Then installing Aurora fixed all my issues. Probably because of the latest kernels.
I had put my PC on the Graphics Team PPA to get recent NVIDIA drivers, but still they weren’t recent enough. I like the pace of change yet relative stability in Universal Blue images’ stable-daily channel. And I really dislike the unstability and unreliability of NVIDIA drivers.
