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>as opposed to crashing the whole system

Depending on your definition of 'the whole system' this is not entirely true.

The AMD driver for example will reset the GPU and force a xorg restart: https://paste.debian.net/plain/1290344

Now this does mean all desktop applications don't close properly, so I restart the PC to a 100% sure stability is at 100%, it didn't cause a kernel panic like the GPU crash would do previously.

I've had this crash happen only twice in ~90 hours of play time.

GPU: 5700XT

Driver: Mesa 23.1.5



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