War thunder freezes mid-game on linux client

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Hello,

I recently changed OS of my computer to Linux mint MATE
I experience the folllowing symtoms during matches:

  1. with a Fatal error message, everything except sound works.
  2. Client completely freezes without warning or error message. I have to forcefully quit the client and restart

The following is full specification of my computer:
System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-83-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
Desktop: MATE v: 1.26.2 Distro: MATE 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)
base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C96 v: 1.0
serial:
Mobo: Micro-Star model: A520M-A PRO (MS-7C96) v: 1.0
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.B0
date: 08/11/2022
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 2S
charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3046 high: 3599 min/max: 2200/3500 boost: enabled cores:
1: 2941 2: 2889 3: 3598 4: 2877 5: 3077 6: 3281 7: 2865 8: 2880 9: 3599
10: 2876 11: 2717 12: 2958 bogomips: 83998
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] vendor: Shenzhen Colorful
Yugong and Development driver: nvidia v: 580.65.06 arch: Turing
bus-ID: 23:00.0
Device-2: Jieli USB PHY 2.0 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 5-1:2
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 2560x1440~60Hz
2: 2560x1440~60Hz 3: 1080x1920~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,nvidia,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.65.06
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 2
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Shenzhen Colorful
Yugong and Development driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 23:00.1
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 25:00.4
Device-3: Jieli USB PHY 2.0 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 5-1:2
API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-83-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI RTL8111/8168/8411 driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000
bus-ID: 22:00.0
IF: enp34s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
IF-ID-1: br-b1c230757c74 state: down mac:
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac:
IF-ID-3: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Edimax Bluetooth Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
bus-ID: 1-4:4
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: bt-v: 5.1
lmp-v: 10
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 7.28 TiB used: 1.02 TiB (14.1%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD
size: 3.64 TiB temp: 43.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 3.58 TiB used: 352.22 GiB (9.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 818.2 MiB (40.0%) file: /swapfile
ID-2: swap-2 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 71 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 75%
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB used: 10.12 GiB (65.1%)
Processes: 435 Uptime: 2h 10m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
Packages: 2608 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34

Thank you

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Hello @haydenkuk,

I notice you are using the BETA Nvidia driver version 580.65.06, Could you please install the latest stable Nvidia driver version 580.82.09 and see if the crash continues?

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Hello, apemax.

Thank you for your response.
I found the version you suggested on software manager and am installing it now.
I will try playing war thunder with this driver for the next few days and reply with the result.

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ok freezing just happened I didn’t get any warning.

Thu Sep 25 18:05:38 2025
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.65.06 Driver Version: 580.65.06 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 … Off | 00000000:23:00.0 On | N/A |
| 51% 45C P0 44W / 184W | 876MiB / 8192MiB | 9% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1351 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 499MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2534 G compiz 4MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2705 G /usr/share/codium/codium 74MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3106 G …631eb2089c3c407d2da182600d663 155MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3412 G …144 --variations-seed-version 100MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Ive got a pretty similar situation after the latest update. Antoher guy on the Steam Forum has expressed the same issue, its all the Same for me. Exept its most of the times earlier in the game (1-5min)

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Right, That output says your still on 580.65.06, Could you please confirm that you are still getting the freeze and crash on 580.82.09?

@Dipodox,

As that player on Steam seems to be on Windows it might be a different issue, Are you on Linux or Windows?

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Ok, I am sorry that was my mistake. I saw the numbers wrong.

My next problem is, the driver version that you mentioned is not available in OS Driver manager, the 580.65.06 version is the latest one I can safely get.

But I took one step further to download .run file for 580.82.09 and tried installing it after turning off my display manager and in TTY.

The Nvidia driver installer prompted me to choose MIT/GPL or Nvidia proprietary kernel, I chose MIT/GPL kernel and pressed enter.

all of my screen went blank and nothing else happened, so I foreced reboot and just went back to 580.65.06 version.

and a few weeks ago, I also tried going back to 570 version, the same thing happened.

so I am currently on 580.65.06

should I try installing the latest one again?

9

Right, What versions do you have available in your OS Driver Manager?

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image

and the nvidia-driver-580-open is the one I am using and have tried 570-open and the game still crashed

11

Sorry for the lack of Infos. Im on WIndows 11 24H2 with the latest 581.29 Driver. I just did a complete GPU driver reinstall with the Issue persisting.

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@haydenkuk

Right, Are you running WT through Steam or directly through the launcher downloaded from the WT homepage?

@Dipodox,

Right, As your on Windows the issue you are having could be different, Could you please submit a bug report regarding your issue?

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/new_issue

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I have run war thunder on steam and standalone client and I am currently using the client version of it as I experienced much more frequent freeze in the beginning of the game on steam version.
on the client, I only get occasional GPU usage spikes during matches which very briefly freeze the screen, thus do not so heavily affect the game.
steam version is terrible.

I am not sure whether this helps, but

I have this sneaking suspicion that the complete freeze happens when canons are being fired. it just happened to me again when I aimed at my opponent and fired.
and my memory suggests that the freeze most often occurs after I’ve fired a shot.

14

Right, Could you please submit a bug report regarding these freezes/crashes then?

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/new_issue

Making sure to provide all the required information and files.

15

I played to matches today without any issues. Guess its fixed. Should I file a Bug report anyway?

16

Right, Well if your not getting any crashes any more then there is no need to report them. If you start getting any crashes again please do submit a bug report however.

17

I have the same issue, freezing the game in the middle of the match. Or even in my hangar, when I am creating a new layout for my bomber’s bombs.

However, in my opinion Gaijin devs are too lazy to even react to this problem due to the low linux player count.
We should capture the hole War Thunder community, and abuse the devs as much as we can! Be strong linux players!!!