I’ve recently migrated from endeavour OS to debian for more stability (I updated my endeavour os and a huge graphical bug occurred, so I just gave up on arch based distros).
Then I installed steam following this tutorial https://wiki.debian.org/Steam#Installing_Steam, but I noticed that after playing Farlight 84 for a few minutes, the game would behave in 1 of these 2 ways:
- The game and steam closes.
- The whole OS freezes and the only solution is to restart the laptop.
I think it’s something ram related, but the game never closed nor crashed my whole system on endeavour os, so maybe is something about a graphical driver?
Here’s my neofetch output, please tell me if I need to provide some additional output:
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
Host: 82X5 IdeaPad 1 15AMN7
Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64
Packages: 2158 (dpkg) Shell: bash 5.2.15
Resolution: 1366x768 DE: Plasma 5.27.5
WM: KWin
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics (8) @ 2.800GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 04:00.0 Mendocino
Memory: 2816MiB / 6663MiB
Also, I’ve had this problem on a laptop. The problem is more likely that you’re underutilizing the GPU and so the whole graphics load is put on the CPU. Try cranking up the graphics settings as well.
Not everyone has one, but try connecting to a TV, 1080p monitor (with both screens running), or a higher res display (2k/4k) with the laptop screen off. The added load will utilize the GPU more and the game won’t crash.
My issue was with Rocket League and it would crash like this so I kept turning graphics settings down which made the issue more frequent. I recently got a new desktop with a 2k monitor and, before the actual computer parts arrived, I played games on the laptop through the 2k display with no issues whatsoever.
Laptops are a different breed that will need more utilization of the GPU in some cases since the graphics aren’t handled solely by the GPU