System keeps freezing when gaming with proprietary nvidia drivers

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Hi! I am running fedora 43 on my computer with gtx 1660 and i5 9400f. When playing games (mainly dota 2) my system completely freezes after a couple minutes of game play. Only hard reset (holding down power button) fixes it.

Here I have logs from system journal which I think is related to the issue: Nov 04 14:06:22 fedora kernel: NVRM: nvCheckOkFailedNoLog: Check failed: Out of - Pastebin.com

Note: I am using proprietary nvidia drivers provided by rpm fusion.

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Looking at that log it appears that the GPU memory is being totally consumed and thus is causing the fault.

How much video RAM is available for that GPU?

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It is 6gb.

EDIT: Turning on nvidia persistence mode seems to fix this issue somehow.

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