Freezing issues after Update(?)

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Hi all,

I’m running into an issue where my system inconsistently freezes up, and I started noticing it right after a recent system update. The freezes usually occur while I’m gaming or watching videos. Here’s a breakdown of what I’ve observed and tried so far:

Hardware:

  • GPU: RTX 3060 Ti (Driver version: 570.153.02 (NVIDIA))
  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400g

Symptoms:

  • System freeze happens suddenly, typically within a second of the issue starting.

  • Video (eg. Youtube) and audio cut out simultaneously and with a slight delay, and then the mouse / rest of screnn becomes unresponsive.

  • No error messages appear in journalctl at the time of the freeze — I had it running in a separate session to monitor.

  • Occurs both under Wayland GNOME and Hyprland.

What I tried:

  • Ran Memtest86+ — no errors found.

  • Stress-tested CPU with Prime95 — stable.

  • Pushed GPU load by crunching data — no issues surfaced during that.

At this point, I’m not sure if the problem is related to the NVIDIA driver, Wayland-specific instability, or something deeper at the kernel/system level post-update. Has anyone else run into a similar issue with this driver version or under Wayland recently? Any suggestions on further debugging steps or logs I might have missed?

Thanks in advance!

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which kernel version are you running , when i had updated to 6.14.8 , my system was freezing when i used to left it idle like watching a long video , now i have updated to 6.14.9 , since then haven’t faced any such issue.

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I use the 6.14.9-200 kernel

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give output of this command

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver
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It semms it does not exists

cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver: No such file or directory

I tried to get in the /sys/devices/system/cpu/ directory: sudo find ./ -name scaling_driver but didn’t find anything

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are you using atomic version of fedora? , if not , can you install cpupower tool ( dnf in cpupower ) and paste output of this command here

cpupower frequency-info