Since yesterday I have had about four catastrophic crashes, by which I mean, the screen goes grey and I have to restart. But I can't even restart through REISUB, it has to be a hard reset.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? I have monitored hardware temps while playing, they are all well within limits. No overheating. I have played on low gfx settings, still it happens.
System specs
Intel Q8400
AMD HD 5870
6GB RAM
Debian Linux using GNOME
Some error logs from /var/log/syslog
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Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs.
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii kernel: [ 0.448657] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 0: f200084000000800
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii kernel: [ 0.448686] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii systemd[1]: Started Daily rotation of log files.
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii kernel: [ 0.448711] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:1067a TIME 1593254432 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode a0b
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii kernel: [ 0.448737] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii kernel: [ 0.448739] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 5: f200001034000e0f
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii kernel: [ 0.448763] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0
Jun 27 11:40:39 psychopig-xxxvii systemd[1]: Started Daily apt download activities.
It says there's a CPU issue but it doesn't seem to be temperature related, there appear to be no temp spikes in-game which I have monitored through the sensor terminal prog. I don't want to keep restarting the game for too long, as amazing as it is, since hard resets are not good for the hardware. Any help appreciated.
I wonder if I should try running it from Xfce to see if there's any difference.
EDIT: This only happens so far in wide open outdoor spaces. I am ruling out an issue with thermal paste since I replaced that six months ago, and this is the first time this has happened since. I have played Witcher 1 a lot recently, and no such thing happened.