Game Freezing and Force Restart of the Game

Community Technical Support Crashes, Connection, Update Problems & Advice
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Hello Everybody, first time writing here in forum. would like to share my issue lately with War thunder where ive been experiencing freezing non stop when going into GRB and GRB Test Drive. It could hold on abit longer when in Air RB or Naval RB but sadly it will eventually Crash. This is my device spec and OS:

Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.30.0
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Kernel Version: 7.2.3-1-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12500H
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (4GB) Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: Victus by HP Laptop 16-d1xxx

I migrate from windows to LInux to see whether the issue persist since in windows it keep freezing and crashing as well even in the lobby and this had been happenning for awhile after a certain major update which i dont remember anymore. I usually somtimes get a small amout of playtime if im lucky that day before it crash itself which is why is migrate to Linux to test my luck.

Ive tried everything in Windows from playing with ULQ, Chnging both Drivers, BIOS update, using both steam and windows version of the game but nothing works. Same as in Linux and i even tinker with the system trying undervolting and limit it frwquency. I also did thermal paste and putty chnge + buying cooling pad to help with thermal throtling issue but apprently i have no trouble in other game

When on Linux apparently it keep freezing as well when going into battle only but i can idle in lobby indefinitely. Hope anyone with knowledge can try to help me figure this out or else i might go back to Windows and tinker around there instead since i m more familiar with them. This video shows how the freeze happen

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i would guess it is an vram issue, wt eats alot of vram from my experience, and when i had an 4gb gpu even a good while ago it was already having some issues there once it filled all the 4gb of vram the game simply died for a couple seconds and came back after, and even now i have an 8gb 5050 and if it gets to use all the vram it lags ALOT.
While in the end it didnt really crash every single time id think that might be the issue there

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Hrm weird cause my fren with the same 4gb Vram can run the game just fine on Linux on custom Medium graphic which is what makes me questions my device. His spec should be :

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS (12)
GPU: AMD Radeon 760m Graphics
GPU: NVDIA GeForce RTX2050

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There is a Linux client for the game, you don’t have to use Steam. Steam will be virtualizing windows to run that install.