The game launcher starts but when I click on play, whole screen goes black and nothing happens. System becomes unresponsive and I need to hard reset it.
The game launcher starts but when I click on play, whole screen goes black and nothing happens. System becomes unresponsive and I need to hard reset it.
you can no longer switch to a vt?
have you tried switching to a vt preemptively while launching it (e.g. use the sleep command to delay start or use chvt in the same input line)?
check the syslog, if any.
idk if it’s still a thing, but the kernel had magic sysrq key combos that would still work when a lot of stuff crashed.
maybe try logging the game stderr and stdout to a file. maybe even with additional strace.