Hi All. Brand new to Bazzite. Bazzite Freezing/Locking up

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Hi all, I switched to Bazzite from Windows 10 for the steam options and I an using it for a dily run machine. I have noticed that it tends to lock up and freeze often while using it. Are there an tweaks to eliminate or diagnose this. ( I have just update the OS)
Cheers and Beers

P.S. I looked into the posting on git-hub and man it is not new user friendly. I have used linux in the past a long time ago but dont recall the coding protocals

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Hi,

I will try to be as clear as possible, let me know if anything is confusing. First thing first, can you type your system specs so we know what type of hardware you are using? Your GPU, CPU, ram, etc. When troubleshooting, first you should give some information people can work on. If you go to start menu (pressing meta key) and type “info center” you will find a user interface that will give you all information you need. Press “Copy Details” on top right and paste it here.

After that, can you open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t should do it) and type the following in there:

rpm-ostree status

and share the results here? Ctrl+c won’t work on terminal so try to right click and click copy. Mine says the following, for example:

State: idle
Deployments:
â—Ź ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:ca0d9ff74c55fa3c4bc193594902cea00daf0ebd58420a4eaa5c8952705ffb5d
                  Version: 42.20251019 (2025-10-19T16:21:48Z)

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:72dc7dd0d4640305b8e07e2e463f19cf8b81491e611c68254d0ab831f16698a0
                  Version: 42.20251018 (2025-10-18T21:29:23Z)

After that we can try other stuff, but let’s start with these two.

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I’ll do that when it happens again. Thanks

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State: idle
Deployments:
â—Ź ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-gnome:stable
Digest: sha256:9b4c3784ac0c15b0b78325cbaefd53351ce2a2d4c82a0171f01f65a8e76ee495
Version: 42.20251019 (2025-10-19T16:19:48Z)

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-gnome:stable
Digest: sha256:f3e965d7598f0d145b515ec7f39b5bcf11584ccd4c96e2b2fc214f483079ff17
Version: 42.20251018 (2025-10-18T21:27:15Z)

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And what about your system specs? Please help me help you here.

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I hope this helps. I will admit the system seems to be better. I think the issue may have been Steam Hogging resources while downloading. I pause downloading but some times they start back up. Since I have other issues with Steam, I have not been downloading.
The PC is a new build roughly a month old but the Large drives are a few months old.
One of the old other drives crashed loosing majority of the data.
I hope this helps.
Thanks

Gigabyte B550M GAMING Mainboard
Amd Ryzen 5 5600X

Radeon RX 580
DDR4 40GB
M.2 SSD WD Green 240 GB Bazzite Install
M.2 Force MP510
1 4TB Ntfs drive
1 4GB Ntfs 3TB / ext4 1TB

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What is the GPU exactly? Also I see a couple NTFS drives. Are you dual booting? Linux does not really support NTFS. That might be part of the issue. Unless you are dual booting and have to use NTFS, please use a different file system, either btrfs or ext4.

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Hi,

The Graphics card is a Radeon RX580 Bazzite is the only OS.
The Reason I Has the NTFS Partitions is that I dont have the drive space to back up 6TB of data.
I will convert the NTFS Drive to ext4 once I can back it up safely.

Thanks for the help

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That machine should not be locking up, its a perfect machine for Linux, and for Steam, I have a test machine at the moment using an RX 580 8GB, solid as a rock, maybe check temps of everything, make sure nothing is getting hot, I will assume that everything was fine under Windows 10?

Id say just check the temps of everything, make sure nothing is overheating first, mainly the GPU.

Lockups are usually hardware related, not saying its the only cause, but is the first place to look, if everything seems good, you could also test another distro to see if its a software related issue, this would be my approach.

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Thanks for your input. As I an currently having a drive/directory issue with steam I am not downloading games at the moments and the Machine appears to be running fine so I susspect that may have something to do with it. Cheers

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If you can, disconnect/remove the additional drives and just use the one system drive, and see if that eliminates the issue.

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thanks for your comment.

As I mentioned earlier. The issue seemed to be when I was at the time dowmloading large steam games onto a Drive with ntfs format.

I have since switch the drive to native ext 4. I am attemption againg to download and run games.

I am doing this as steam game storage issues on ntfs drives and the partitioning could be the problem.
There have been no more issue of freezing while I have been addressing this dilemma.
I will keep you posted.

Thanks

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