GUI crashes after starting games, GPU says not enough memory

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So for some time now after starting War Thunder or Cities: Skylines the game runs for a short while (up to 2 minutes) and them my screen turns black, but audio continues. I can use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to go to terminal. If I go back to the GUI (Ctrl+Alt+F2 or Ctrl+Alt+F1, although I have to login again after that one) I usually get some more screen time, until the scenario repeats. If I close the game via terminal I can go back to the GUI as if nothing happened. All other programs keep on running.

Now, that doesn’t happen with Don’t Starve: Together, which is graphically less intensive. It also wasn’t happening before. It might’ve started after the last update but I didn’t notice since I was busy with midterms and hadn’t had the time to play.

A few weeks ago this wasn’t an issue and I could play both WT and C:S normally. I find it weird that it says not enough memory.
Could this be a hardware problem, and not a software one?

I use a Lenovo ThinkPad E14, with Ryzen 5 4500U and 16 GB of RAM. DE is Gnome. Kernel Linux 6.0.8-1-MANJARO x86_64.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

These jumped out to me in the system journal logs:

pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc firefox[3175]: Couldn't map window 0x7f4304ad7fc0 as subsurface because its parent is not mapped.
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc kernel: amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: 00000000f7fe5aff pin failed
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc kernel: [drm:dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to pin framebuffer with error -12
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc gnome-shell[1682]: Failed to scan out client buffer: drmModeAtomicCommit: Nema dovoljno memorije
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc gnome-shell[1682]: Failed to post KMS update: drmModeAtomicCommit: Nema dovoljno memorije
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc kernel: amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: 00000000f0cf4b1d pin failed
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc kernel: [drm:dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to pin framebuffer with error -12
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc gnome-shell[1682]: Page flip discarded: drmModeAtomicCommit: Nema dovoljno memorije
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc gnome-shell[1682]: Failed to scan out client buffer: drmModeAtomicCommit: Nevaljani argument
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc gnome-shell[1682]: Failed to post KMS update: drmModeAtomicCommit: Nevaljani argument
pro 05 20:40:57 user-20t6000rsc gnome-shell[1682]: Page flip discarded: drmModeAtomicCommit: Nevaljani argument

Nema dovoljno memorije = Not enough memory.

Nevaljani argument = Invalid argument.

pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc systemd-coredump[123188]: [🡕] Process 122687 (aces) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                          
                                                          Module /home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces with build-id 1a1000a33da373394942ef22f8f2059c04cfe261
                                                          Module /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so with build-id 6ac86a92a06512414fe84eef09b15c43bab99b3e
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                                                          Stack trace of thread 122687:
                                                          #0  0x00007f918c454c6d getenv (libc.so.6 + 0x3bc6d)
                                                          #1  0x00007f9178107cd9 pa_in_valgrind (libpulsecommon-16.1.so + 0x24cd9)
                                                          #2  0x00007f91796f502e n/a (libpulse.so.0 + 0xd02e)
                                                          #3  0x00007f918cb66aae n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x4aae)
                                                          #4  0x00007f918c453fa5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x3afa5)
                                                          #5  0x00007f918c454120 exit (libc.so.6 + 0x3b120)
                                                          #6  0x00000000017e5892 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0x13e5892)
                                                          #7  0x0000000000994301 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0x594301)
                                                          #8  0x00000000017f5bbd n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0x13f5bbd)
                                                          #9  0x00000000019fb315 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0x15fb315)
                                                          #10 0x000000000099ed59 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0x59ed59)
                                                          #11 0x000000000041f0c4 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0x1f0c4)
                                                          #12 0x00007f918c43c290 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x23290)
                                                          #13 0x00007f918c43c34a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2334a)
                                                          #14 0x00000000004b6c6a n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/linux64/aces + 0xb6c6a)
                                                          ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@8-123187-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1670269280.864:644): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=unconfined msg='unit=systemd-coredump@8-123187-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=?>
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=unconfined msg='unit=systemd-coredump@8-123187-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=succes>
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@8-123187-0.service: Consumed 7.544s CPU time.
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc audit: BPF prog-id=0 op=UNLOAD
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc audit: BPF prog-id=0 op=UNLOAD
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc audit: BPF prog-id=0 op=UNLOAD
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1670269280.984:645): prog-id=0 op=UNLOAD
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1670269280.984:646): prog-id=0 op=UNLOAD
pro 05 20:41:20 user-20t6000rsc kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1670269280.984:647): prog-id=0 op=UNLOAD
2

Have you looked at the GPU thermals. The 4500 U uses AMD graphics. The fan control in AMD graphics can be a problem. When the gpu overheats it turns off the graphics, but the desktop continues to run. It may also overheat the cpu and cause all kinds of errors.

3

Nothing that really jumps out, at least with psensors. It spikes to about 60 to 70 °C when starting up and doesn’t have time to stabilise before the screen turns black. Constantly going back to the game keeps the spikes at around 50 to 60 °C.

4

You may want to try an application that controls the fan curve. I use radeon-profile-git and radeon-profile-daemon-git. They are in the AUR. Its easy to set the curve, and it can start in the tray. You can also try two apps the Arch wiki recommends for thinkpads. I hope this help.