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Argaman
Asked: 2017-10-20 23:32:59 +0800 CST

Steam games crashes randomly on Ubuntu 17.10 (GNOME)

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I have done the switch from Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10, but when I downloaded Steam, and opened one game, it crashed after one minute of playing.

I want to mention that it happend on Ubuntu 17.04 as well, but only in TF2.

I've tried many games, and I got the same result, the game freezes, then it has a sound loop, then it crash, but I do not get any error message. (most of them are working on OpenGL)

I have Intel Core i5-6198DU CPU @ 2.30GHz x 4, Intel HD Graphics 510(Skylake GT1), GNOME 3.26.1, 8GB ram, 64-bit.

And I don't have any graphics driver installed.

Can you please tell me what should I do to make it work again? (and please if you want me to post logs and stuff, explain where do I need to find them, because I don't know much about it.)

journalctl -n 1000 gives me this output https://pastebin.com/gSZNMwK4.

Important edit: The games don't work in unity, gnome,either on xorg, or wayland session, in fact, after the game crashes I get a messagebox saying report a bug, but nothing happens after I click report.

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1 Answers

  1. This sounds like there is a problem with a PCI Express device not properly communicating with the Root port. I suspect this may be a kernel issue. You could try using a different kernel, e.g. with: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelPPA

    PS: This was meant as a reply to your comment... got the wrong field. Can you maybe update the original question, if this solution is was useful?

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