Steam crashes mid games

[csf128]

Hi, I’m on Arch but I’ve been having pretty much the same exact problem for months.

Disabling the Steam Overlay helps (Crash every 3-4 hours instead of 1-2) but the problem persists, even if I leave steam running over night with no games open, it will crash with out of memory.

I’ve left a “free -m” dumping to a log file every 10 seconds and my available memory never even dipped below 16 GiB, but steam still crashes when trying to allocate exactly 4 GiB.

I’m on an AMD card with mesa drivers too, which is different to pungentstentch’s setup too.

[Fabby]

@csf128

trying to allocate exactly 4 GiB.

Sounds like a 32-bit problem and definitely needs Steam’s intervention, so both of you, please read this:

[HowTo] become a Manjaro power user when you're a wizard at Windows but a N00b at Manjaro / Linux

Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆☆ Remember when you installed your very first Windows, added bells and whistles and then couldn’t see the wood for the trees any more and had to re-install? Well, you’re in the same situation now: You’re a N00b again! Embrace it! I know right now you’re thinking:

Why is this so much more difficult than Windows?

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Whereas in 6 months time, you’ll be like:

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especially the What’s this upstream / downstream business?

and then file a bug upstream…

[pungentstentch]

Well I’d been doing more testing and apparently it was caused with some weird issue with Mangohud. As soon as I stopped using it steam stopped crashing at all.

I tried to clean and rebuild mangohud but the issue persists. So I guess I’ll wait until they fix it.

Thanks everyone for the help.