If you are curious I’d check out the following link and see what version of mesa you are running vs the latest. Maybe you can find more info or other experiences from users on that specific version.
Finally, I’m curious if you boot using USB into a live distro like Nobara, if you can manage to test the game. Or even actually install Nobara to a spare USB drive drive and test the game.
Maybe someone else can chime in, but that’s about all I can think of. If you want to find a root cause, you have to run through and find what’s not the issue.
This is just a guess, but I imagine kubuntu probably has a slightly dated kernel / mesa versions. My understanding is that As much as we wouldn’t like it to be the case, there’s still issues with AMD. It’s not totally perfect and Improvements and fixes are being added to the kernel and mesa packages all the time.
Maybe someone on AMD can confirm?
I own the game and did not experience a crash when playing through it on my nvidia system last year.
Add this as a Steam launch option for the game:`PROTON_LOG=1 %command%`
How?
1. Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.
2. Under the General tab click the Set launch options... button.
3. Enter the above code in.
Logs will be saved to $HOME/steam-$STEAM\_APP\_ID.log, overwriting any previous log with that name.
If it’s happening on your desktop but not the steamdeck, my first assumption would be an issue with your desktop software/hardware.
Might want to check OS logs at the same time of the crash as well.
prometheus and grafana … seems to be the universally accepted solution for self-hosted monitoring
Not exactly. There are many ways to do this. Most of us just use this solution because its easily scalable, highly documented and what we are probably already doing currently at work.
all built into one container
It’s nice to separate data sources from the dashboards and alerting platforms. It’s scalable and extremely light weight and gives you more options.
On top of prometheus not seeming useful on its own …
Yeah, that’s just not always true. Maybe for you, in your use case.
Installing a Prometheus node exporter gives you an easily accessible end point with JSON data that can be used however you like. Modularity is a good thing. Being able to swap parts in and out with other parts is a good thing.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, there is not an exact correct answer here, use what fits your needs. While I have a dash board setup in grafana, it’s not my main use case. Since the data is available from all the node-exporters on all my hardware, I wrote up my own alerting scripts and automations using python.
That’s the beauty of modularity and standards when self hosting.
It’s like comparing Copying vs Plagiarism. There may be a term that adds more context on the how or why the copying is happening. But the act is still copying.
Copying vs. Plagiarism
What’s being done: Reproducing someone else’s work (copying).
Why it’s different: Plagiarism involves passing off someone else’s work as one’s own, typically without permission or acknowledgment.
Term: Plagiarism
We may have a new term for the why it’s being done, but what was done is still a remix.
I have no idea what you’re on about. The intention of making the song doesn’t matter. So the artist wants more money by releasing remixes of their popular songs. Whether it’s for more money, extra tracks for the fans or bringing in friends or other artists to collaborate. What they are doing is releasing a remix.
I feel like you’re too hung up on the “why” and ignoring the “what”. Just because someone recently noticed it was happening, doesn’t make it new or something different.
If you take tracks from a song and add/remove/re-arrange it into a new release. It’s a remix.
Remix - To recombine (audio tracks or channels from a recording) to produce a new or modified audio recording.
E: I’ll meet you half way. If someone coins a term for releasing remixes solely for profit, then we can call it that. But it’s still a remix.
It’s called a “remix” and I wouldn’t call it a recent trend. Sometimes the song was shorter or longer. Perhaps featuring a guest artist or alternative lyrics. Maybe even a previous mix of the same song.
It's not a remix
New tracks and some or all of the original tracks were used to mix a new version of the song.
Thanks for the response. As I said, I’m aware RMA they just announced, current mitigations, bios updates and using Prime95 to test stability. I’m not seeing crashes with Prime95 since tweaking and eventually installing the latest ASUS bios with included microcode update. I have seen a crash in PrusaSlicer on occasion. Which is making me wonder.
Anyway, I was trying to understand if there’s an official test, software or process to determine if damage has occurred.
Is there an official way to test your CPU if it’s damaged? Months ago I noticed issues when running Prime95 and found chatter on how to tweak the bios to improve stability. I’ve also been updating my bios and keeping an eye on their support page.
What I’m getting at is that I’m not sure if it was damaged. I have noticed an issue here or there random and not often, but I’m always going to wonder if my chip is bad or just normal bugs that occur time to time.
I’ll end it here.
If you are curious I’d check out the following link and see what version of mesa you are running vs the latest. Maybe you can find more info or other experiences from users on that specific version.
https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-upgrade-mesa-drivers-on-ubuntu-linux/
If you want to explore a newer kernel: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/08/install-latest-kernel-new-repository/amp/
Finally, I’m curious if you boot using USB into a live distro like Nobara, if you can manage to test the game. Or even actually install Nobara to a spare USB drive drive and test the game.
Maybe someone else can chime in, but that’s about all I can think of. If you want to find a root cause, you have to run through and find what’s not the issue.