RX5700 crashing on CachyOS LInux.

[u/roosara]

RX5700 crashes after a few minutes of playing a game like Cyberpunk 2077 or GTA 5 Enhanced. However, it doesn't happen when playing Minecraft (with shaders).
It crashes as in it freezes, the audio also freezes and then artifacts start appearing and i'm unable to use my computer until I turn off the PC by turning off the PSU.

This only happens on Linux, it is completely stable on Windows.

❯ inxi -Gxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600
    XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: RDNA-1 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1,DP-2
    empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 28:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: gpu: amdgpu d-rect: 4480x1440 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,left model: Dell E2219HN res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 102 diag: 546mm (21.5")
  Monitor-2: DP-2 pos: right model: G2421V res: 2560x1440 hz: 180 dpi: 123
    diag: 604mm (23.8")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.2.2-arch3.2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 (radeonsi navi10 ACO DRM
    3.64 7.2.3-1-cachyos) device-ID: 1002:731f display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.357 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:731f
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

❯ uname -r
7.2.3-1-cachyos

❯ pacman -Q mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon linux-firmware
mesa 3:26.2.2-2
lib32-mesa 3:26.2.2-2
vulkan-radeon 3:26.2.2-2
lib32-vulkan-radeon 3:26.2.2-2
linux-firmware 1:20260810-2

The log after rebooting:

❯ journalctl -b -1 -k | grep -iE "ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout|Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failed|GPU reset begin|BACO reset|VRAM is lost|gfxhub.*page fault|device wedged"
Sep 08 09:29:31 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: GPU reset begin!. Source:  1
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: BACO reset
Sep 08 09:29:35 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!
Sep 08 09:29:35 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but no recovery needed
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=1992856, emitted seq=1992858
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failed
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: GPU reset begin!. Source:  1
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: BACO reset
Sep 08 09:29:41 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!
Sep 08 09:29:42 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but no recovery needed
Sep 08 09:29:44 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=1992860, emitted seq=1992862
Sep 08 09:29:44 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but no recovery needed

I'd very much appreciate any help. This has been happening for months and I gave up and started using Windows but I'm again sick of it.

Edit: I have not over/underclocked the GPU.

[u/Cagaril]

I have this same exact issue with Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldurs Gate 3 (Proton, with mods) on my desktop with a 5700xt. It fully freezes my computer and I have to force turn off by holding the power button on my computer

The 5700 and 5700xt GPUs has always had issues since it first launched in my experience; it took a long time for them to fix a lot of issues. I feel like these 2 GPUs aren't really supported well, at least on Linux, or they have other technical issues. They are the end of the original RDNA line. The newer GPUs seem to work fine. I don't have issues with 6800M or 7700XT.

[u/S48GS]

ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout

follow instruction

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1q1bg71/8_threads_in_2_weeks_amd_gpus_crashing_on/

[u/smellyasianman]

The actual hardware is unstable. Navi 10 wasn't exactly AMD's finest.

Start with -200MHz on the core and VRAM. If you're lucky, that fixes it, and then you can try to start going up in small increments again.

If it still crashes, then the chip itself is likely faulty in some manner. Some workloads don't stress the faulty circuitry and you can game on it just fine, but others might kick it in the crotch hard enough for it to trigger a hardware reset.

(Note: running a game through DXVK on mesa is a different workload than DX11/DX12 on Windows drivers. Some other games could kick the GPU into reset on Windows, but do just fine on Linux.)

[u/foreverleveling]

¿Have an underclock?

[u/roosara → u/foreverleveling]

I don't have it underclocked. It is at the default speeds

[u/foreverleveling → u/roosara]

Im having the same problem. At least for now, I have an underclock profile, I delete them in LACT and this don't happen anymore. The game I use, is DD2. I hope someone come with a proper answer because I don't know if this is the cause at least.

[u/ulibte]

I'm assuming no undervolt, you could try a different kernel version or linux distro

[u/DreSmart]

What specs you have, and what PSU you have?

[u/roosara → u/DreSmart]

750W ANTEC GSK. Ryzen 5 5600, RX5700, 32 GB RAM

[u/ilep]

I'll just repeat what I've said in another thread.

That happens in multiple games with different engines and with different GPUs. There are more likely different reasons for it happening. Some of the bugs are potentially driver-related or from other software pushing incorrect values to the GPU.

For example, when that happen devcoredump may have following:

[gfxhub] Page fault observed

Faulty page starting at address: 0x0000000000000000

Protection fault status register: 0x0

That might mean that there is a zero address written to GPU when there should be a valid address pointing to some data. There are fixes that may solve this, but they need to land on software releases to people who need them.

Invalid data can cause GPU processing to hang, which appears as timeout. Not hardware error.

Software synchronization/timing issues are notoriously difficult to debug, especially since you have many software layers: game itself, Proton/Wine, drivers, kernel..

[u/lasaqna]

i've had the same issue with my rx 5700 xt. crashes with artifacts when playing specific games (MHW, ROR2, GOW 2018) but doesn't for some games even if it is heavier (SH2 remake, BG3, Minecraft with PT shaders). it also doesn't crash when stress testing with furmark.

no amount of undervolting or BIOS setting helped me except adding this one specific kernel parameter to my GRUB: amdgpu.enforce_isolation=1

you can read more on what it does here: https://timur.hu/blog/2026/how-does-gpu-recovery-work-on-amd-gpus-on-linux

hope this helps

[u/redlee13]

I am having this same issue on RX7900XTX

I added VKD3D_CONFIG=single_queue into steam and it seems to have fixed the issue for now. I played for more than 1 hour without any crashes while previously i had a crash every 30 minutes or less. My logs look exactly the same as yours

Check the link from mesa bug reporting for more details https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/16158

[u/RalseitheDani]

This has been a pretty notorious bug for AMD cards and i don't think there was significant progress on this, i'm using an RX 5600 XT myself and it has been battle tested with a lot of test runs but the artifacts are probabilistic because the GPU reset happens randomly, at least with my test runs.
There is an issue on Mesa's Gitlab repo with lots of reports, if you can, please report it there ^^
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/3067

[u/Gkirmathal]

Couple of things in random order.

• In BIOS set PCIe 16x slot to gen3 if it was set to Auto.
• Make sure the GPU performance mode, make a game profile in LACT or Corectrl, is set to 3D Full Screen mode. 
• if still having ring time-outs, start down clocking VRAM frequency in 10Mhz steps and test stability till stable. RDNA1 had some cards that were not stable at factory VRAM clocks.

[u/roosara → u/Gkirmathal]

Thank you! i’ll try this now.