notkiniro
commented
11 months ago This is a known issue with multiple monitors try adding -windowed to your parameters
Closed rtaft closed 6 months ago
notkiniro
commented
11 months ago This is a known issue with multiple monitors try adding -windowed to your parameters
rtaft
commented
11 months ago @notkiniro No luck with windowed mode, I only survived one map before it locked up on Mint 21.2. I had my doubts though, never had this issue before in full-screen mode. I'm trying out Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10 as well (multiple ssds), I got into a repeating loop for about 5 seconds and thought it was going down but it recovered. I've only got about 5 hours of game time on that OS. My goal is to see if it is just Mint 21 or if it's on the latest Ubuntu or even Ubuntu 22. The only other hardware I could swap out is the PSU and GPU. I could throw in an older AMD (R9 290) card and see if that clears it up. I'm open to any other suggestions.
rtaft
commented
6 months ago After much testing, this issue also happened in Windows. The difference was that Windows seemed to recover after a while, while multiple versions of Linux would lock up X11. I have not seen this behavior since I upgraded my video card, it is possible the issue is directly related to the card itself or the drivers.
When playing TF2 I run into an issue where one of my 2 monitors will turn a solid color. TF2 will still be running but eventually, both monitors will turn a solid color (the color varies). The game sound will continue to play, often looping sounds before it eventually stops. I am able to SSH into the PC and what I can see is the hlds_linux process using 100% CPU. Eventually, the process will crash entirely, when this happens, the Xorg process then has 100% CPU usage. I have not figured out how to recover the system after this without rebooting, killing Xorg does not stop it. These crashes happen about once or twice a week with 1-2 hours of gameplay per day. Halloween maps trigger this more frequently. My overall memory usage for today's crash was at 4GB out of 32GB. GPU temp was around 70C after SSHing into the machine, I've never seen it over 85C.
I started having this issue after upgrading from Mint 20 to Mint 21. I bought a new nvme SSD and installed Mint 21.1 on it, upgrading to 21.2 when it came out. Initially, the crashes were just TF2, but evolved into full OS lockups, one time I could not power on the PC afterwards. I figured it was a dying MB so I upgraded from a 4790k to a i7-13700, new memory, new MB. This did not resolve the issue. Since this started with the new nvme disk and install of Mint 21.2 (copied game files), I got another nvme drive, fresh install of 21.2, and fresh downloads of everything. I had 2 crashes in 6 days. I switched from Cinnamon to Mate, still crashes. I tried switching NVidia drivers from 525 to 390 as well.
I reverted back to booting to my Mint 20.3 disk, I had to upgrade the kernel to support the new hardware (5.4->5.15) After over a week of play, I've had no crashes. This all started with Mint 21. Any advice on how to track this down and resolve it?
EDIT: I had left
toprunning and reset the machine. I noticed afterward thatgpu-managerwas at 100% CPU as root andgameoverlayuiusing 3% at the moment I reset.