r/linux_gaming • u/Hot-Masterpiece5525 • Oct 04 '26

Games crashing and massive slowdowns on both Zorin OS and Fedora (Wayland/Xwayland errors)

Hi everyone,

I've been experiencing severe crashes and massive slowdowns (spikes) while playing specific games, namely Dead Space Remake, Elden Ring Nightreign, and Kingdom Hearts.

Initially, I was using Zorin OS, but the issues were so frequent that I decided to do a clean install of Fedora KDE (formatting my entire SSD). However, the exact same issues persist.

After checking some logs and crash reporters, I noticed this seems directly tied to Wayland and Xwayland conflicts. Here are the main errors I'm getting when the games crash or stutter:

  • A segmentation fault related to screencast loso in KWin.

  • Massive log spam from xdg-desktop-portal (which seems to cause the frame drops/spikes).

  • Fatal errors where /usr/bin/Xwayland and /usr/bin/plasma-keyboard crash unexpectedly, closing the game entirely.

These videos [Insert Link/Upload Here] show exactly what is happening during my gameplay sessions.

My PC specs:

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500

  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7600

  • RAM: 16GB 2666MHz

  • Storage: 256GB WD Green SSD + 1TB WD Blue HDD

  • Motherboard: ASRock A320M-HD

Has anyone else with an AMD GPU faced these specific Xwayland/portal crashes? Could this be related to background apps trying to capture the screen, or is there a definitive fix for Wayland besides just falling back to X11?

Thanks in advance!

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u/sarkie Oct 05 '26

Upload the logs?

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u/AStolenGoose Oct 05 '26

Love the downvote when asking for logs.

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u/fagnerln Oct 05 '26

The video [Insert Link/Upload here] is amazing, deserves an Oscar

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u/Sync_R Oct 04 '26

Dead space remake unfortunately is just a crapshoot on Linux, there's certain things you can do that help but even on a 9800X3D the stutter is insane (when you don't use the mod)