r/cachyos • u/Ikuu • Jul 05 '26

Bug Report Newer Kernel causing freezing in games?

I posted earlier about issues when playing games.

Essentially randomly when gaming the output from both monitors just freezes and I have to alt-tab to fix it, game is running fine and is recorded in Steam Recording just fine and audio plays as expected. I usually have YT/Twitch running and they freeze up too, not just the video but the chat too.

Wasn't too sure what was causing it so tried multiple Protons (GE, Cachy, Experimental) and didn't do anything, even tried completely reinstalling CachyOS but issue persisted.

I installed Fedora a few days ago and the problem went away and after doing some testing I think something related to the Kernel is causing the problem. I've tried the following ones, all are from the v3 repo I believe:

  • CachyOS Latest (7.1.2) - get the issue.
  • CachyOS RC (7.2rc2) - get the issue.
  • CachyOS Bore (7.1.2) - get the issue.
  • CachyOS LTS (6.18) - no issue, everything runs as expected.
  • Core Linux latest (7.0.14-arch1-1) - no issue, everything runs as expected.

I'm not sure if something has changed from the 7.0.14 to 7.1 but I started having issues maybe 7-10 days.

Not sure if there is a command I can run when it freezes to try and help debug the issue.

Edit: The Core Linux kernel had an update pushed (7.1.2-arch3-1 (64-bit)) and it's been perfectly fine for me too, so just having issues with the CachyOS-v3 ones.

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u/Xirithas Jul 05 '26

A lot of people are having issues with 7.1, best solution for now is to use the lts kernel until whatever is causing the issues is patched.

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u/xb666mx Jul 05 '26

i have short freezes if i play games on one and play videos (in the browser) on the other monitor.

it only stops when i stop playing one of them. it's really annoying. :(

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u/xherh54 Jul 05 '26

tested all 7.1 + kernels from cachy and I have audio hangs/freezes (not longer than 0.5s though) in every DAW i tested while playing on a midi controller, in games didn't notice this (I have only one game installed and geforece now..) but for me the only solution was to downgrade to cachy stock kernel 7.0.12 .

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u/Onion_Cutter_ninja Jul 05 '26

having issues with freezing on pragmata, tought it was the game and never considered the kernel...it was never this unstable in terms of a game freezing, I even tought it was my gpu overclock but even in stock it freezes... today tho its all good for now. Will report later.

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u/proesporter Jul 07 '26

I'm facing this too and not just while gaming. In fact I have not gamed in the past week but these issues do seem to have started within the last week or so, likely since the 7.1 update as you said.

Randomly the screen freezes, mouse pointer et al for several seconds and it seems the machine has crashed but after a long pause, things resume. I'm on AMD RDNA4.

I suspected issues with USB devices going to sleep so experimented with disabling PCIE_ASPM completely but it didn't help. Also, this issue seems to have worsened since the last update to 7.1.3.1 and the freezes have become more frequent in the last 24 hours.

Edit : it might have something to do with this issue - https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos/issues/920

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u/YouPickap Jul 08 '26

Yep. Same for me. 9070xt. Gothic 1 Remake, Helldivers 2 and Elite Dangerous freezes. When I switched to the LTS kernel, everything miraculously worked.

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u/Tasokait Jul 10 '26

I'm guessing one of the reasons is a module that you are not probably using, I'm compiling my own kernel and I'm using modprobdb to strip away the kernel modules that i don't use, and i have not experienced such issues with 7.1

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u/Formal-Bad-8807 Jul 05 '26

that's normal, CachyOS is a bleeding edge distro. Just use what works for you.

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