Finally was able to get BIOS updated (my EFI partition did not have the esp flag set in GPT so fwupdmgr was not seeing my EFI partition) and the crash/hang is not much of a thing anymore. I can witness worms and survive! However, things still kind of get bogged down a bit but it does seem to recover ...

It would take a significant amount of effort for me to install Windows to be honest. On my other platforms, I don't have the issue but they are different hardware of course:

- Steam Deck
- Ubuntu 22.04 on an NVIDIA 1080Ti
- Windows on an NVIDIA 1070Ti

Is there anything I can do to record things ...

FYI updated last reply.

Since the issue may be related to 4K, I'd have to wait until resolution support is added. I can see if I can try the Alt+Enter thing.

On 2.0.23 (latest for me) at full screen 4K, issue still occurs. And when running in windowed mode at about a quarter resolution, the hang still occurs and it causes ...

Still reproducible on latest stable. When I encountered the "corpse" of dead worm, it lagged significantly but was playable, but when I encountered an actual living worm, same problem: rendering effectively stops and I can't do anything at all.

Also I couldn't find anything in the settings to ...

I'm going to try to reproduce.

FYI I monitored CPU usage and GPU usage (via `intel_gpu_top`) and there was nothing significant going on when the issue occurs. I'm heading back to Vulcanus to see if I can reproduce.

System Info:

- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 165U
- Graphics: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 7d45 (rev 08)
- RAM: 64GiB
- Storage: 2TiB NVMe
- Distribution: Ubuntu 22.04 (amd64)
- Kernel: 6.8.0-48-generic
- Running in Steam in Native Mode (Not Windows Layer)

In ...