Hi all!
When I’m playing Noita through Proton Experimental (tried v8.0-2 too but the problem persists), my whole system freezes in two minutes tops while in-game. Audio still plays, but the system doesn’t respond to mouse or keyboard inputs (so I can’t switch to a TUI to kill the GNOME shell). When this happens, I can only hard reset my laptop.
This started happening with Team Fortress 2 too, although much less frequently. The error persists when running the games in fullscreen and also in windowed mode.
So far, I narrowed it down to it being a GNOME bug or a known issue with Pop!_OS. I tried stopping autostart of the appcenter deamon, disabling all of the installed GNOME extensions, running the games in windowed mode but the problem is still here.
I am beyond confused as to what to do. I’m thinking on dual booting Windows even lol. Can anyone help me?
It’s a hardware-specific issue that could be anything from faulty memory timings, memory clocks, CPU voltages, overclocks, graphics driver issues, CPU power states, etc. Some are able to fix firmware flaws by limiting CPU power states by adding the
processor.max_cstate=1orintel_idle.max_cstate=1kernel option to their system witsudo kernelstub -a {{option}}.processor.max_cstate=1
After shutting out the possibility of this being a RAM issue by passing all tests of Memtest86, I tried setting this kernel option. It seemingly solved the problem, Noita doesn’t crash the system after two minutes like it used to.
Thank you for your answer!
