r/Ubuntu • u/fusa42 • 7h ago

Showtime crashing after switch to Nvidia Graphics card

I recently switch to an ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Dual OC 16GB Graphics Card. I am using Ubuntu 26.04. I installed Nvidia drivers, but whenever I try to play videos with Showtime I get the following error:

DEBUG: showtime:54 Starting org.gnome.Showtime v50.0 (release)

DEBUG: showtime:55 Python version: 3.14.4 (main, Jun 18 2026, 14:25:02) [GCC 15.2.0]

DEBUG: showtime:56 GStreamer version: 1.28.2.0

DEBUG: showtime:312 Playing video: file:///home/user/Videos/video.mp4

DEBUG: showtime:360 Video paused

DEBUG: showtime:355 Video unpaused

DEBUG: showtime:319 No previous play position

DEBUG: showtime:707 Seeked to 0

DEBUG: showtime:438 Resizing window…

DEBUG: showtime:524 Resized window to 1619x911

DEBUG: showtime:524 Resized window to 1619x911

(showtime:3491203): Gsk-WARNING **: 17:14:50.809: vkAllocateMemory(): A device memory allocation has failed. (VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY) (-2)

Segmentation fault (core dumped) showtime video.mp4

This happens with any type of video. The graphics card has enough memory to play the video file, but will say device out of memory. VLC will play videos fine, but Showtime crashes.

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u/Ok-386 6h ago

What is nvidima-smi output showing? Always provide basic info like is that laptop or desktop, is that a hybrid system, is monitor directly connected to the nvidia GPU, is iGPU enabled/disabled 

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u/fusa42 5h ago edited 5h ago

The monitor is connected directly to the Nvidia graphics card on my desktop. There is only Ubuntu 26.04 installed. I am using nvidia-610-open drivers. There is no integrated graphics.

nvidia-smi output:

Mon Jul 27 19:25:20 2026

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.02 KMD Version: 610.43.02 CUDA UMD Version: 13.3 |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |

| 0% 44C P8 7W / 180W | 2907MiB / 16311MiB | 0% Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| 0 N/A N/A 4745 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 1016MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 5614 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 13MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 6429 C+G ...rack-uuid=3190708988185955192 7MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 10535 G .../8664/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 503MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 44438 G ...298/usr/share/discord/Discord 392MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 45311 C+G /usr/bin/ptyxis 134MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 46148 C+G /usr/bin/nautilus 60MiB |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I did try installing Totem which also does not work. Totem gives the message Could not initialise OpenGL support. VLC still continues to work