Freeze on Linux, repro 100%

[cbob3000]

My SOMA consistently freezes near the place where I'm supposed to launch a shuttle to the second station. It's the spot where there's an still-alive lady lying on the floor and tentacles coming from a box attached to her. Sometimes the game freezes by just getting the box and/or the lady into the field of view, sometimes a second later when I try to unplug the wires from the box. By freeze I mean a condition where a static image remains on my screen but audio gets killed and absolutely nothing moves or reacts to any input. Only way out of this is to kill -9 the game from the command line. I'm on a relatively powerful intel i5 with SSD disk and 16 gigs of memory. My GPU is Nvidia 660, latest official ubuntu drivers installed. Distro Xubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, upgraded. Help?

[AaronKOG]

Is this still an issue for you? The thread is marked as Solved, maybe that was an accident. If it is still an issue I'd like to get the your system information from Steam->Help->System Information. I'd also like to get your hpl.log file from a run where you got the freeze. Thanks.

[Guest]

Is this still an issue for you? The thread is marked as Solved, maybe that was an accident. If it is still an issue I'd like to get the your system information from Steam->Help->System Information. I'd also like to get your hpl.log file from a run where you got the freeze. Thanks.

Thanks for the response. Yes, it's still an issue. I'll provide the info later today.

[Guest]

Here's the data. Sorry for the wait.

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Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    CPU Family:  0x6
    CPU Model:  0x2a
    CPU Stepping:  0x7
    CPU Type:  0x0
    Speed:  3301 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported
    
Network Information:
    Network Speed:  
    
Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.13.0-65-generic
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11501000
    X Window Manager:  Xfwm4
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release_2015-06-12
    
Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.93
    OpenGL Version: 4.4
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x11c0
    Number of Monitors:  2
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 2280
    Primary Display Size: 18.78" x 10.55"  (21.54" diag)
                                            47.7cm x 26.8cm  (54.7cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC892
    
Memory:
    RAM:  16029 Mb
    
Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  112546 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  7600 Mb
    
Installed software:
    
Recent Failure Reports:

[Guest]

This one's still an issue for me.

[AaronKOG]

I'm running nvidia too and am not able to reproduce this issue. My driver version is 352.41, so I'd recommend updating to the latest drivers:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

You could alternatively try lowering the texture quality or disabling some other effects

[Guest]

i have the same problem for two different systems. First: ubuntu 14.04. core i7 3550k, 16gb RAM 1600, nvidia gtx660 with 355.11 driver; second system: ubuntu 14.04 intel core i5, 8gb RAM, video intel hd 4400. Please help!