Amdgpu, Gnome, Chrome and Gaming lag

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I’ve been having some trouble recently and I’m not sure when it started. I can generally reproduce a problem I’m having by opening youtube in Chrome, backgrounding the playing video, and then browsing the web. Every now and again Chrome instances will “freeze” (they’re running fine, but I can’t scroll text, etc) for a good second or two and then become responsive again.

I thought that was a Chrome related issue but then I noticed this also happens when I am gaming. I have been using this same installation and computer for gaming for quite a while.

Recently, Monster Hunter Wilds released. I noticed that occasionally I’ll get what appears to be a hang and often this will result in a crash of amdgpu and/or a network timeout.

In both cases it seems like my video drivers just kind of “go to space” for a minute and then come back just fine except for the case of MH:Wilds where it crashes amdgpu and sends me back to gdm.

Here’s the strange thing - neither of these things happen in COSMIC or Plasma.

I have a Radeon 6750 XT with plenty of available RAM and clock when it happens. Dual monitor setup.

Fedora 41
mesa 25
kernel 6.12.15-200
xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu-23.0.0-6.fc41.x86_64
mutter-47.5-1.fc41.x86_64

To be honest I’m not sure how long this has been happening but with it affecting Monster Hunter Wilds it’s not something I can ignore anymore.

Anyone have any ideas on why only Gnome seems to be having this problem?

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Did you install any packages for Xorg on GNOME?

If you can log into it it’s probably fine, but I wonder if a missing package might do something different? From this thread, I needed to install these packages for GNOME on Xorg to work at all with Intel UHD 630 around mid-Feb:

gnome-session-xsession xorg-x11-drivers setxkbmap xhost xmodmap xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xinit xrdb

Unredirect fullscreen extenstion might also do something different: Disable unredirect fullscreen windows - GNOME Shell Extensions

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I’m using Wayland.

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Some of the same packages may impact wayland as well since you have the same GPU.

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I may be confused, but I believe Espionage724 literally said they were on Intel graphics. I’m not sure reinstalling X packages is going to help me out in Wayland.

Plus, as mentioned, everything works fine in Cosmic and KDE. I’m not using Silverblue from the thread and I believe all my Xorg packages are still in Fedora Workstation. I really don’t think Intel Graphics and Xorg are related to my problem with AMD Graphics in Wayland.