System freezes when gaming | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

covert depot Jan 24, 2026, 11:01 PM

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I noticed after a few hours of gaming (2-4), my system will totally freeze up. Cant kill any process, just have to hold the power button down which I know is not ideal to do often. I usually have 5-10 tabs open in firefox, discord, and then a steam game running. I attached some info that hopefully useful to see, right now i have no idea why this is happening

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covert depot Jan 25, 2026, 5:56 PM

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This is right after another system freeze, i notice it says 'under memory pressure, flushing cache'

void pivot Jan 25, 2026, 10:04 PM

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covert depot

is this constantly with the same game or more than 1 game?

covert depot Jan 25, 2026, 10:09 PM

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void pivot is this constantly with the same game or more than 1 game?

any game

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this morning i setup zram to maybe help and so far ive had no crashes with 5ish hours of gaming, will be testing more today

edit: after a day of gaming it did not crash, so could definitely have solved it

void pivot Jan 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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under memory pressure is exactly what it says, the system is running out of available memory and is resorting to swap

covert depot Jan 25, 2026, 10:15 PM

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gotchu, yeah hopefully its better today. 16 gbs of ram is also probably small for todays standards id guess

void pivot Jan 25, 2026, 10:26 PM

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for heavy games it's the recommended

covert depot Jan 25, 2026, 10:27 PM

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Ah okay

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