Hiya!
Been having an issue while playing games where while a resource intensive game is running, some programs freeze and become visually unresponse, i specify visually as from audio clues i can tell my clicks are registering, but visually nothing changes, from testing multiple games ive noticed this occurs when my Vram is high (my GPU has 4096MiB, anytime it approaches 4000+ this happens). Is there anything I can do to prevent this, or is it a case of my gpu finally not being good enough? (though i will note this only became an issue once i switched over to Fedora very recently, my bet is it being a Wayland issue as my last distro was X11)
If i close and reopen the application while the game is still running and Vram is still high then it reopens with the window transparent and only the top bar rendered
Some system information:
OS: Fedora 41
DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.5
WM: Wayland
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GiB
Graphics Drivers: 565.77
RAM: 24GiB
If any more information is needed im happy to provide!
Thank you! 
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Some time back I broke down and purchased an nvidia 3050 with 8G vram for the exact problem you are having.
If you have the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda package installed the nvidia-smi command will provide some detailed info about the card and usage (including programs using that card and the vram used for each).
$ nvidia-smi
Fri Jan 17 20:09:31 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 3050 Off | 00000000:06:00.0 On | N/A |
| 36% 61C P2 93W / 130W | 2715MiB / 8192MiB | 90% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2700 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 260MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2802 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 3MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2981 C+G /usr/bin/ptyxis 28MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 998065 G ...seed-version=20250114-180129.242000 229MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2300392 G ...libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2645120 C ...64-pc-linux-gnu__GW-opencl-nvidia-2 2050MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
yea been using nvidia-smi to track the vram and its 100% that which is causing it, heres an nvidia-smi output of the moment elite dangerous made me pass 4000, at which point the applications, like clockwork, stopped:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 GTX 1050 Ti Off | 00000000:26:00.0 On | N/A |
| 45% 43C P0 N/A / 75W | 4012MiB / 4096MiB | 97% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2214 G /usr/bin/kwin_wayland 112MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2303 G /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard 59MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2312 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2360 G /usr/bin/ksmserver 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2363 G /usr/bin/kded6 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2392 G /usr/bin/plasmashell 184MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2418 G /usr/libexec/kactivitymanagerd 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2440 G /usr/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2441 G /usr/bin/kaccess 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2442 G ...6/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2443 G /usr/libexec/org_kde_powerdevil 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2444 G /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2446 G /usr/bin/xembedsniproxy 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2572 G /usr/bin/kdeconnectd 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2682 G /usr/bin/openrgb 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2720 G /usr/bin/xwaylandvideobridge 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2765 G /usr/libexec/DiscoverNotifier 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2766 G /usr/bin/kalendarac 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2840 G /usr/bin/akonadi_control 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2966 G /usr/bin/akonadi_archivemail_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2967 G /usr/bin/akonadi_birthdays_resource 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2968 G /usr/bin/akonadi_contacts_resource 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2969 G .../bin/akonadi_followupreminder_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2970 G /usr/bin/akonadi_ical_resource 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2971 G /usr/bin/akonadi_indexing_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2972 G /usr/bin/akonadi_maildir_resource 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2973 G /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2974 G /usr/bin/akonadi_mailfilter_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2975 G /usr/bin/akonadi_mailmerge_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2976 G /usr/bin/akonadi_migration_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2977 G /usr/bin/akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2978 G /usr/bin/akonadi_sendlater_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2979 G /usr/bin/akonadi_unifiedmailbox_agent 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3110 G /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 153MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3233 G ...yOnDemand --variations-seed-version 64MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3613 G ...bin/plasma-browser-integration-host 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3872 G ...local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4193 G ./steamwebhelper 33MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4219 C+G ....local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt 4MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4938 G /usr/bin/konsole 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5296 C+G ...ous-odyssey-64\EliteDangerous64.exe 3249MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
So its just a case of how wayland reacts to max Vram then, and I need to upgrade my gpu?
I have same issue with 6GB VRAM. Does it still happen with native games (no proton/wine)?