When playing CS:GO after anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes my computer will freeze and i need to use the restart key on the case. At the moment of the freeze my audio loops the past 1/4 second and my friends say that my mumble client stops transmitting immediately then times out from the server. I cannot restart my session with <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Backspace>, I cannot switch to TTY1 with <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F1>, and surprisingly I cannot even get a response from <Alt>+<SysReq>+<R,E,I,S,U,B>, although I have read that it may be disabled in mint? I am not seeing anything useful in the syslog and I really do not know where to go from here.
$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-28-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
$ inxi
CPU~Hexa core Intel Core i7-3930K (-HT-MCP-) speed/max~2779/5700 MHz Kernel~4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
Up~1 day Mem~5599.8/32113.4MB HDD~2062.4GB(25.7% used) Procs~360 Client~Shell inxi~2.2.35
Having run Linux on all but my gaming PC for the last few years I recently decided it was finally time to move off windows 7 and run my games on Linux as well. Currently I have Linux mint 18.2 installed just because it is what I use on a laptop so I can help friends and family with it. I am not tied to mint on this desktop but also don’t really want to go installing other distros willy nilly to see if it helps. I currently use cinnamon for my WM but have been experimenting on another machine to see if i could move to a tiling WM like awesome or i3, so installing another distro with an unfamiliar WM wouldn’t be an issue.
Since I don’t play games as much as I used to, and not very demanding ones at that I have not seen a need to update my GPU, but if that would provide much better long term stability I would probably do it.
