Hyprland freezes at "Creating Aquamarine Backend"

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PASTE YOUR HYPRLAND VERSION HERE (0.51.1-6), BETWEEN THE BACKTICKS. DO NOT REMOVE ANY FORMATTING.

Hyprland freezes at “Creating Aquamarine Backend”

Hi. I am a newbie trying to install Arch + Hyprland on an Asus Rog Zephyrus G16 (4070 + Ryzen AI 9 HX 370). I have both iGPU and dGPU. Unfortunately, whenever I attempt to load Hyprland, the process freezes at “Creating Aquamarine Backend.” Hyprland does not provide any additional logs despite logs being enabled in the config. I tried setting hyprland up according to the multi-GPU guide on Hyprland Wiki. I also tried to use each GPU separately and set the Nvidia GPU according to the guide on the Hyprland wiki (although I would prefer to run hyprland on the integrated GPU). I used amdgpu and proprietary nvidia drivers. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

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If it crashes, post a crash report. With no further info, I can’t do much.

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It does not crash, just freezes without the crash report. Also, I managed to start it, but only in dGPU-only mode (AsusMuxDgpu mode). As soon as I switch to hybrid mode it freezes at “Direct prop rule found rewritten nofocus → prop nofocus”. Additionally, it works fine with an external monitor.

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Enable logs (debug:disable_logs = false), then launch with AQ_TRACE=1 HYPRLAND_TRACE=1, and attach the log here. You can quit Hyprland after you reproduce the issue, which I assume is almost immediately.

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I will add myself here. I think i have a similar problem. I’m on an ASUS TUF gaming laptop and I also get system freezes. The freezes usually happen when i launch hyprland or when something in the config changes. I then get a dgpu Status changed notification.

This can also be triggered by hyprctl reload or changing anything in the config (running with config-only does not trigger this effect 90% of the time)

Example → My border color is dynamic and based on my wallpaper. It used to just change when my wallpaper changes. now the entire System freezes for a couple of seconds and sometimes my monitor(s) goes black (sometimes up to 15 seconds)

However this issue happens whenever I change anything in the config

I attached a log for further checking.

hyprland.txt (9.6 MB)

Hyprland 0.51.1 built from branch  at commit 71a1216abcc7031776630a6d88f105605c4dc1c9  ([gha] Nix: update inputs).
Date: Mon Sep 22 20:54:03 2025
Tag: v0.51.1, commits: 6436
built against:
 aquamarine 0.9.5
 hyprlang 0.6.3
 hyprutils 0.10.0
 hyprcursor 0.1.13
 hyprgraphics 0.2.0


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Just checked on hyprland-git and the issue persists. Additionally just saving the config without changing anything also triggers the issue.

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So when your hyprland “freezes”, it still runs in the background? As in audio works, keybinds work, etc?

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Sorry for the wait. Yes everything else still works.

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Also the issue is still present on 0.52