Linux users: how often does SotA crash?

I'm just curious if I'm alone in having SotA crash like every 5 minutes.

 

Mine never crashes? not on my fedora system nor Gentoo system.
Although on my fedora + nvidia currently it is very bugged, the whole screen is reddish when playing SotA. I guess this is a problem from my own fault. (using testing repo)

 

maybe twice a month, tops.

 

I really need to get to the bottom of this. Maybe it's the combination of Ryzen processor and Nvidia GPU?

 

Here's my system spec, if anyone has any ideas....

OS: Linux 4.17 unknown 64bit (it's Fedora 28)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor (16) System RAM: 32157
GPU: GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 8192

 

Firstly check 'dmesg' maybe its the kernel OOM killer?
What you can also try is starting SotA from the terminal, not the launcher but the game binary straight away. This will show you any crash info that maybe is important.

 

I think it might be heat related. I opened the side of my case and it hasn't crashed all night.

 

Not only was I at shooters party in both windows and linux, but linux had about 3fps better performance. So that's 7 fps for windows and 10fps (steady almost locked) for linux.
Same hardware. This was on a Ryzen 1700 at 3.6ghz 16gb of ram and an rx580 8gb.

Oh boy, clean those dust bunnies out @Barugon (especially check those heatsink fins). If you're comfy with it, and its been a while, remove the heatsink fan / liquid cooling block from the cpu and clean it
with rubbing alchohol or whatever you prefer reapply some artic silver or whatever your favourtite compound may be. Sometimes after a few years that compound can 'crack' breaking the seal between the cpu and heatsink.

I had this issue with my AMD 1100t and it made my cpu thermals 50+ idling. After cleaning / reapplying the goo, live was good at 35 / 45 idle and 60 under load.

Check the fans for gunk to, low rpm = less airflow = heat buildup.

Something to consider anyhow.

 

Alright, it's not heat related. The client has crashed three times in the last 15 minutes.

 

Rarly the client is crashing during loading and logoff for me.
My major problem with the Linux client is the terrible hitching.

 

I got an older System with a AMD FX-8120 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 6950 Gfx-Card, and 32 GB RAM.
The System is dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 7.
Most of the time I play SotA using Windows, because it runs much better than under Linux, which is very sad.
So I can't really tell how stable it is under Linux, because I don't really play using it.
The normal client didn't die on me in that time, only the QA one did.
I'm thinking about getting a new system, but I'm not sure what I should get ... maybe a Nvidia Gfx-card this time.

 

Check your dmesg OOM. Maybe the kernel sacrificed the child.

 

I've checked it before and there were no messages. I'll check it again next time. I really doubt that it's an out of memory situation since, like you, I have 32 GB of system memory and 8 GB of GPU memory.

 

I don't know how much it will help, but I've never really had a problem with it crashing. I've used Ubuntu and several forks such as Kubuntu and Elementary OS. I have all Intel/NVIDIA hardware.

 

Alright, I think I finally have this figured out. While poking through my BIOS last weekend, looking for a SMT setting, I noticed that the IOMMU was disabled. It doesn't make any sense to me to have that disabled so I set it to enabled and haven't had a SotA crash since.

 

So did you finally disable SMT also? And if so, have you seen a performance improvement (FPS) wise?

 

No, there were no SMT options either.

 

Any logical processor support? Sometimes they call it like that in the BIOS.

 

I don't recall seeing anything like that but I'll check again. I'm just really super happy that it's not crashing anymore.