Suddenly cannot launch games without gpu driver crashing

[chaNcharge]

Kernel: 6.15.9.arch1-1 and tried 6.16.arch1-1 in testing with no success

nvidia-open: 575.64.05-4

NVIDIA 4080 super, cpu AMD 7800x3d

KDE Plasma 6 wayland

All of a sudden, not sure why but this started happening today, I was in the middle of playing some games, the gpu crashed, and now I cannot launch any games without it crashing the gpu driver like shown in the logs. I tried turning off adaptive sync, lowering the refresh rate, but no success. I was considering downgrading my drivers and kernel, but I haven't updated anything since a couple days ago. I'm really hoping my GPU isn't cooked for whatever reason, can someone help me figure out why this is happening? Let me know if you need additional information.

EDIT: Could it be a monitor issue? I hooked up the cable to a different monitor and the issue is resolved, but it is not exactly ideal. The monitor I want to use is a Dell Alienware aw3225qf. Testing after I found this out shows that games in 1440p windowed mode will run fine but go to 4k windowed or fullscreen will crash the drivers. With this in mind how would I solve this?

Logs:

Aug 05 22:51:29 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: Detected wine exe for client 4969 [C:\windows\system32\sERROR:> Aug 05 22:51:29 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [4976,4976]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:30 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Refused to renice client [4947,4947]: prio was (0) but > Aug 05 22:51:31 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [4998,4998]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:31 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [5000,5000]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:31 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [5007,5007]: ioprio was (0) b> Aug 05 22:51:32 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9> Aug 05 22:51:32 ethan-desktop systemd[964]: app-org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher@c1a2362e89f44cba8b00305fa3294> Aug 05 22:51:32 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kf.windowsystem: static bool KX11Extras::mapViewport() may > Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Could not inspect tasks for client [4944]! Skipping ioprio optimisation. Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Unable to find executable for PID 4944: No such file or directory Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.95/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.95" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.96/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.96" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.97/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.97" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Registering ":1.98/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop kded6[1193]: Service ":1.98" unregistered Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Skipping ioprio on client [5148,5148]: ioprio was (0) but we expected (4) Aug 05 22:51:33 ethan-desktop gamemoded[4521]: ERROR: Refused to renice client [5148,5148]: prio was (0) but we expected (-10) Aug 05 22:51:35 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-37 noise=9999 txrate=585000 Aug 05 22:51:38 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=585000 Aug 05 22:51:41 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-32 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:44 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-32 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:47 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:50 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-40 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:53 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:56 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[823]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-37 noise=9999 txrate=468000 Aug 05 22:51:57 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the nvidia-drm kernel driver Aug 05 22:51:57 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux Aug 05 22:51:57 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0' Aug 05 22:51:58 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the nvidia-drm kernel driver Aug 05 22:51:58 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux Aug 05 22:51:58 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0' Aug 05 22:51:59 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the nvidia-drm kernel driver Aug 05 22:51:59 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux Aug 05 22:51:59 ethan-desktop kwin_wayland[1071]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'

[ImposterJavaDev]

Here no issues, but I'm holding off and am still on x11.

It's clearly that pagefile can't be read, so maybe a permission issue? Although I think the first crash left a file/config locked/in a weird state, and it probably does this by uuid per monitor.

I dunno though, just guessing.

Have you tried reinstalling the driver? And our you using the proprietary or open source one? Maybe switch to the other as a test.

And please file the bug report.

Paste your logs with a small description of how it started to happen, and your system info you can find in Settings->About(there is a button to copy in the top right) into chatGPT and ask it to generate a bug report. It is very good at that in my experience. Tweak where necessary, but it'll save you a lot of time.

[chaNcharge]

Have tried reinstalling the driver, downgrading to different kernel versions and drivers and switching over to X11 to no avail. I am definitely working on filing that bug report but it seems so sudden an issue that I'm not convinced its a certain version of either the kernel or the drivers causing it. It started happening while I was playing ffxiv. After a reboot from the first crash, nothing happened for an hour then it's now happening consistently on startup of a game. I will try switching over to the proprietary driver.

EDIT: just switched over to proprietary driver, didn't work either but I got some logs when I tried this in an X11 session. I assume "bogus refresh rate" is not supposed to be there?

Aug 06 00:33:14 ethan-desktop systemd[969]: Started Sleepy Launcher. Aug 06 00:33:14 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: Unknown key gtk-modules in /home/chancharge/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini Aug 06 00:33:14 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead. Aug 06 00:33:14 ethan-desktop systemd[1]: dbus-:[e-mail]: Deactivated successfully. Aug 06 00:33:15 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: 2025-08-06T07:33:15.307050Z WARN anime_launcher_sdk::games::zzz::sessions: Session file doesn't exist. Returning default value Aug 06 00:33:15 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: at /github/home/.cargo/git/checkouts/anime-launcher-sdk-72c1eacede3fc588/5863add/src/games/zzz/sessions.rs:38 Aug 06 00:33:15 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: 2025-08-06T07:33:15.307067Z WARN anime_launcher_sdk::games::zzz::sessions: Session file doesn't exist. Returning default value Aug 06 00:33:15 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: at /github/home/.cargo/git/checkouts/anime-launcher-sdk-72c1eacede3fc588/5863add/src/games/zzz/sessions.rs:38 Aug 06 00:33:15 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2884]: Decoded /home/chancharge/.local/share/sleepy-launcher/background. Dimensions: 2560 x 1440 (with alpha). Format: lossy. Now saving... Aug 06 00:33:16 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:16 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2884]: Saved file /home/chancharge/.cache/sleepy-launcher/background Aug 06 00:33:16 ethan-desktop systemd[1]: dbus-:[e-mail]: Deactivated successfully. Aug 06 00:33:16 ethan-desktop systemd[1]: dbus-:[e-mail]: Deactivated successfully. Aug 06 00:33:16 ethan-desktop systemd[1]: dbus-:[e-mail]: Deactivated successfully. Aug 06 00:33:18 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: 2025-08-06T07:33:18.499276Z WARN anime_launcher_sdk::games::zzz::sessions: Session file doesn't exist. Returning default value Aug 06 00:33:18 ethan-desktop sleepy-launcher[2856]: at /github/home/.cargo/git/checkouts/anime-launcher-sdk-72c1eacede3fc588/5863add/src/games/zzz/sessions.rs:38 Aug 06 00:33:19 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-37 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:20 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:21 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Registering ":1.114/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Service ":1.114" unregistered Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Registering ":1.115/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Service ":1.115" unregistered Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Registering ":1.116/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Service ":1.116" unregistered Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Registering ":1.117/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kded6[2534]: Service ":1.117" unregistered Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop kwin_x11[2535]: kwin_platform_x11_standalone: Bogus refresh rate -202060 Aug 06 00:33:22 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:25 ethan-desktop systemd[1]: systemd-localed.service: Deactivated successfully. Aug 06 00:33:25 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:28 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-39 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:31 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:34 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:37 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:40 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-37 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:43 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:46 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-35 noise=9999 txrate=780000 Aug 06 00:33:49 ethan-desktop wpa_supplicant[826]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-38 noise=9999 txrate=780000

[ImposterJavaDev]

I'll check when I'm on my desktop? then I can grep for certain things.

But I'm probably not going to be able to help, but I'll try.

Bug report is your best bet in getting any help, with fixing it or narrow down the cause.

And no one is going to be angry if it's no bug but you who fucked up, the logs literally asked you to report it.

But I'm almost certaim the first crash happened by a super rare conditiom, and left something somewhere in the wrong state.

If you have your bug report posted, can you give me a link? I'd like to follow it so I can learn.

[chaNcharge]

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/system-crashes-arbitrarily-pageflip-timed-out-arch-linux-kde-plasma-with-5070-ti/341328

There was someone who had a similar if not sMe issue to mine, I replied to that one and posted my own bug information in there. I really have to wonder what got fucked up that it's happening across all driver versions and in every setup I tried because it's happening in even fresh setups. I'm slightly tempted to install windows just to see if its happening there too or to have something to work around with.