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ieatdirt1

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Registered: 2026-04-21

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Computer freezes at high resource usage

Hello,

This specifically happens when I play 3d games like Frostpunk. The game will usually freeze and the system will be somewhat responsive for a bit. If I'm not able to shut the system down quickly the whole thing will become unresponsive. I can still move my mouse around but I can't open applications and if I have a terminal open any commands I type won't be recognized by bash. Shutting the system down when this happens just causes it to freeze with the screen off. Or at least not shut down. I can run frostpunk just fine on lower settings and my system handles high cpu loads just fine. I've also been able to run the pc just fine on other OSs so I doubt its a hardware issue.

Here's a pastebin of journalctl -b -1 after I was able to shut it down:
https://pastebin.com/UwRjSwYr

seth

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Re: Computer freezes at high resource usage

Shutdown "how"?
The journal ends prematurely after attaching an "Arctis Pro Wireless" ~8:00

This specifically happens when I play 3d games like Frostpunk.

Apr 21 07:31:48 IeatArches kernel: amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes

1002:164e  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]  Raphael

AMD has some issues lately but there's no output attached to that GPU, you're likely running on

Apr 21 07:31:42 archlinux kernel: nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  595.58.03  Release Build  (root@)  

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Since it's an GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] - do you get the same problem w/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=580xx and disabling the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … P_firmware ?

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