Starting the UPBGE binary on Linux causes the OS to instantly lock up and the computer requires a forced restart. During one instance I managed to see an infinite number of Blender windows appearing as fast as possible and filling up the screen, this might mean something is causing BGE to launch itself indefinitely until the system runs out of memory.
I duplicated the test on my mother’s computer also running Manjaro / KDE Plasma (Wayland): Same issue, opening UPBGE instantly crashes the machine. I downloaded the 0.4.3 Alpha and that does it too alongside the 0.36.1 release. Normal Blender (installed via system packages) does not have the issue and I’m using it just fine, whatever is happening must be BGE specific.
I’d like to know if others can reproduce the issue and figure out what’s happening. To replicate: Download the Blender Game Engine from its download page, unpack the archive and run it as you would normal Blender. This will freeze your computer and require a hard restart, make sure you aren’t doing anything that may cause you to lose data! OS information as follows:
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.6-10-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series