What version of proton are you using? Whenever I have weird issues with a game, usually the thing that fixes it is switch proton version. GE proton 10-28 has been working well for me so far across all my games.
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ProtonGE 10-28 is the proton I am using. I have tried proton experimental and 10-03 no dice 😕
Are you running the game through Steam or through Heroic Games Launcher? (Or lutris or bottles?)
Is your launcher of choice a flatpak install or native?
Which Proton version? The protondb seems to have multiple people running Cachyos saying they ran it succesfully with proton-cachyos-10 versions.
If you launch the game with PROTON_LOG=1 %command% you get logs to check through
https://www.protondb.com/help/troubleshooting-faq#how-do-i-create-logs-of-a-game-i-run-with-proton
Without logs we're just guessing. In addition to Proton logs, check the system journal aswell. 'journalctl' is the command for it. If I would be forced to guess, GPU driver bugs do often cause system to freeze. While at it, you could enable MagicSysRq if CachyOS hasn't enabled it for you, and use REISUB to try to recover. Arch wiki will guide you with these better than I could.
For me, launching the game via GOG Galaxy in Wine caused issues. When I launched it standalone, everything was fine
Did you use the -nolauncher launch option?
The steam version of Cyberpunk is slightly different to the GOG one because CD Projekt Red gave Valve previewed access to the code to ensure it would work with Proton. That said, I'm not sure why any changes have not been rolled into the GOG release.
What you are describing sounds like a memory leak or some kind of graphics option causing problems. Could the game be using a feature that your graphics card drivers are configured to use?
Nah, I played all Cyberpunk from GOG with the earliest versions of Proton. I believe I dirst used Lutris for installing it. Should be ok IMHO.
I would suspect some screensaver/sleep command running in the background, if the 10 mins is really consistent, but like another comment said, we are just guessing without logs.
Working on getting logs, the game is open now. I am just waiting for it to freeze again. Sorry about that should have thought of it before posting. I turned screen locking and sleep mode off so idk if that would be it.
EDIT: Actually I think you may be on to something. This is the longest the game has lasted. I did actually have screen locking and sleep mode on! I had these crashes on my original cachy install where I had it off. I then installed windows to test and I also updated my motherboard bios. The game ran fine in windows (even better because the dx12 bug was not present). So I wanted to give cachy a go again, I then reinstalled it and ran the game again and left my pc. My previous install of cachy I for sure had screen lock and sleep off.
This install I forgot, when I left the pc the game had froze again and then I posted. This time I turned it off and the game is approaching 2 hours! So I think my motherboard was unstable because of expo profiles before the bios update, The bios update fixed the previous crashes, and now the crash before this post was because of screen lock/sleep. I am gonna let it run another half hour with different settings just to make sure.
I had the same and it was only cyberpunk but the reason was that my GPU clock and voltage were not stable... it became stable with higher voltage or alternatively with lower max clock rate