NVRM GPU Xid 13 when playing games

Sprinter05 · 2026-01-09 23:12:50

NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, pid=4881, name=granblue_fantas, Graphics Exception: channel 0x0000001a, Class 0000c5c0, Offset 00000000, Data 00000000
I keep getting this error when playing the game Granblue Fantasy Relink on the nvidia driver, causing it to crash, I looked at the Xid Errors list and it classifies as a "Graphics Engine Exception" but I feel that too generic to pin down on what it is.
I have tried several Proton versions with this game and it seems to not be related, its something on the GPU driver. I'm running the mainstream nvidia-dkms driver with kernel 6.18.3-arch1-1.
The only options I have enabled on the GPU that differ from the standard is:
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1
But I don't know if this could be related to the issue.

Sprinter05 · 2026-01-10 00:01:23

Just got the same issue playing Sea of Thieves. It used to only happen every once in a while but now its pretty often

seth · 2026-01-10 10:32:30

Temperature?
Can you reproduce this w/ any of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=unigine ?
Try to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … P_firmware

Sprinter05 · 2026-01-10 15:54:32

Its a laptop so temperature is pretty high all around, 90-99ºC CPU and 70-80ºC GPU.
Disabling GSP firmware isnt possible due to the proprietary driver being discontinued by Nvidia last month, and even then I had already tried that and no GSP firmware makes my games run with very heavy lag and its just unplayable.

Scimmia · 2026-01-10 16:29:50

Sprinter05 wrote:

due to the proprietary driver being discontinued by Nvidia last month,

This did not happen. Arch switched, upstream did not discontinue it.

seth · 2026-01-10 17:08:18

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=580xx
But you should seriously address

Its a laptop so temperature is pretty high all around, 90-99ºC CPU and 70-80ºC GPU.

first and just try whether the unigine demos can also take the system out.

The CPU is at its TDP limit, the GPU might tolerate more but if the case heats up so will eventually the RAM and then you're running into problems.
Clock down CPU & GPU or ramp up the fan profile.

Sprinter05 · Yesterday 13:40:58

The system doesnt freeze or crash its just the specific program. Also my laptop is just old and it doesnt allow for tuning the fan or clocking down cpu or gpu through the BIOS. The BIOS options are barebone

seth · Yesterday 13:58:07

Did you

seth wrote:

try whether the unigine demos can also take the system out

Do you get the same behavior and XID w/ the 580xx drivers (and w/o the GSP)?

Sprinter05 · Yesterday 14:01:43

Yes I just tried the Unigine Superposition benchmark both at 1080p medium and high and no errors were reported by the driver and nothing crashed.
GSP is out of the question because it makes my games unplayable straight up, and 580xx didn't cause me problems (the time I tried) with GSP enabled. But it doesn't necessarily mean thats the issue because the crashing issue only happens sometimes and it's hard to force it to happen.

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