I'm using Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon.
I have this problem with many Steam games, and not even the resource demanding games, even light games.
The games run fine, but about 20 seconds after I quit the game normally (without killing it) - the system freezes and all I can do is hard button reset.
No Alt+Tab, no Ctrl+F1-F6, no Ctrl+Alt+Backspace...nothing works, nothing moves.
I've tried this with Nvidia 525 drivers and now with Nvidia 535 recommended drivers.
System Info:
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System: Kernel: 5.4.0-172-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.4.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) v: Rev X.0x
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0901 date: 08/27/2019
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 182059
Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2196 2: 2196 3: 2197
4: 2196 5: 2192 6: 2196 7: 2195 8: 2196 9: 2193 10: 2195 11: 2194 12: 2194 13: 2192
14: 2194 15: 2196 16: 2191 17: 2195 18: 2196 19: 2196 20: 2194 21: 2197 22: 2195
23: 2195 24: 2195
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 535.161.07 bus ID: 0a:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1e07
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: nvidia tty: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.161.07
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f7
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 0c:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-172-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8125
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: 5.6.0-k port: d000
bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 8086:1539
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 06:00.0
chip ID: 8086:2723
IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 22.74 TiB used: 20.06 TiB (88.2%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter>
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD60EFAX-68JH4N0 size: 5.46 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 27 C
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: M3 Portable size: 3.64 TiB
speed: <unknown> serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Passport 25E2
size: 3.64 TiB speed: <unknown> serial: <filter>
ID-5: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Elements 2620 size: 4.55 TiB
serial: <filter>
ID-6: /dev/sde type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Passport 25E2
size: 3.64 TiB serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 45.53 GiB used: 32.91 GiB (72.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 919.7 MiB used: 318.5 MiB (34.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 1.74 TiB used: 1.59 TiB (91.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 27%
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/c_falco-mame-focal.list
1: deb http: //ppa.launchpad.net/c.falco/mame/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadsnakes-ppa-focal.list
1: deb http: //ppa.launchpad.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/inkscape_dev-stable-focal.list
1: deb http: //ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.dev/stable/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //mirrors.nic.cz/linuxmint-packages ulyssa main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list
1: deb https: //deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases)
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pcsx2-team-pcsx2-daily-focal.list
1: deb http: //ppa.launchpad.net/pcsx2-team/pcsx2-daily/ubuntu focal main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http: //packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info: Processes: 491 Uptime: 13m Memory: 62.77 GiB used: 5.17 GiB (8.2%) Init: systemd v: 245
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.4.0 alt: 9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client inxi: 3.0.38
Free space:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 32G 0 32G 0% /dev
tmpfs 6.3G 11M 6.3G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3 46G 33G 11G 77% /
tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop1 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2812
/dev/loop2 64M 64M 0 100% /snap/core20/2105
/dev/loop3 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2796
/dev/loop0 128K 128K 0 100% /snap/bare/5
/dev/loop4 75M 75M 0 100% /snap/core22/1122
/dev/loop5 64M 64M 0 100% /snap/core20/2182
/dev/loop6 41M 41M 0 100% /snap/snapd/20290
/dev/nvme0n1p1 920M 319M 538M 38% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p2 94M 6.1M 88M 7% /boot/efi
/dev/loop7 92M 92M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
/dev/loop8 75M 75M 0 100% /snap/core22/1033
/dev/loop9 416M 416M 0 100% /snap/telegram-desktop/5557
/dev/loop10 82M 82M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1534
/dev/loop11 41M 41M 0 100% /snap/snapd/20671
/dev/loop12 416M 416M 0 100% /snap/telegram-desktop/5581
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1.8T 1.6T 67G 97% /home
/dev/sda1 5.5T 5.1T 64G 99% /Storage
tmpfs 6.3G 28K 6.3G 1% /run/user/1000
What can I do? why my machine freezes?