9 Monkeys of Shaolin (739080)

Reference STEAM Ticket: HT-5JDN-9H3N-24HH

Game launched via compatibility tool: Steam Play

➜~» sudo inxi -CGm
Memory: RAM: total: 62.76 GiB used: 2.74 GiB (4.4%)
Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB slots: 4 EC: None
Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 16 GiB speed: 2666 MT/s
Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 16 GiB speed: 2666 MT/s
Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 16 GiB speed: 2666 MT/s
Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 16 GiB speed: 2666 MT/s
CPU: Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2192 2: 2200 3: 2198 4: 2195 5: 2195 6: 2201 7: 2196
8: 2200 9: 2196 10: 2196 11: 2196 12: 2194
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series (VERDE DRM 3.38.0 5.8.0-45-generic LLVM 11.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.0 - kisak-mesa PPA
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➜~» uname -r; cat /etc/lsb-release 
5.8.0-45-generic
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=groovy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.10"
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I have tried numerous times to get this to game to launch, and on every attempt, the most I can get is music with a black screen before all user input (HID devices) become completely unresponsive. I am unable to switch back to the desktop or bring up the pager. I have went so far as to use another system to SSH into the machine, and tried killing both the game and steam, but the entire system just stays in a frozen, unusable state. I have even tried issuing reboot from the SSH session, and while a ping test shows that the system is no longer accepting IP traffic, it never actually reboots. I end up manually powering the machine off and back on just to make it usable again.

Start by reproducing the launch failure with the listed Steam Play, Ubuntu 20.10, kernel, and AMD graphics environment. There are no source files or tests identified in the report; done would require isolating the cause of the black screen and system-wide freeze and documenting a verified resolution.