Hi everyone, I am having problems with Kotor 2. After deciding to finally play through that game (which I almost finished years ago under Windows) I installed it yesterday and everything went smooth... for the most part.

System specs: Intel G3260, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD6770, Arch Linux w/ Kernel 4.8, OSS drivers

The issue I am having is not really game-breaking but very annoying. Kotor2 does lock up my system for 1-5 seconds (rarely also longer than that) at seemingly random times. The margin between these freezes/lock-ups varies from mere seconds to minutes -- on average I'd say once every 2-3 minutes at least -- and they affect the whole system even if the game is in the background or just at the inventory/main menu. Sometimes the game even runs fine for a long time (~10 minutes) just to delve into chaos at another; there is no pattern I can see as to how or when it happens, even after going through the first parts of the game multiple times.

At first I suspected the graphics card driver but now I am not sure anymore. Things I tried: using the integrated Intel graphics card, not using any mods, changing in-game options, reinstalling the game (on another hard drive too), checking system logs (not too much in here except a X error every time it happens: "SYN DROPPED event from Mouse/Keyboard"), searching on the web (not found anything applicable to me, could also be I am selectively blind or dull-witted), monitoring my system.

I know there are still things I could try but this is the only program/game with this kind of bug. I can still play other 3D games without issues and have not encountered other issues with my system. Since I'm at a total loss here, any help is appreciated.