Odd Freezes since Kernel 6.12

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Starting with Kernel 6.12 i get some odd Freezes that seem to be related to Kwin (at least that is my assumption since the Taskbar freezes).
So far i only noticed it when playing a Nintendo 64 game in Retroarch using the Mupen emulator, something that worked fine before. Now from time to time the game would just freeze. I then can tab out and see that the taskbar has freeze as well. However i still can bring up the terminal via hotkeys or using Firefox. When checking the journal by journalctl -p7 basically nothing shows up that indicates any issue. I also checked out dmesg yet also nothing. Only thing i seem to be able to do is rebooting the system in order to get Plasma work correctly again. I now tried reproducing that issue using Wayland, though so far it didn’t happen there.
Since i don’t know how to reproduce this more frequently i want to mention that i use xpadneo. Which needed an upgrade to work with 6.12. And it also didn’t happen without using a gamepad, which of course could be a coincidence. I’d appreciate any help on that since i want to track down what’s causing that since i never had any issues before with this system.

My Specs are:
OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (16) @ 4.15 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT [Discrete]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.3
WM: X11

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Hi - does booting into a 6.11 kernel stop the issue from showing up? If so, I’d assume there’s something funky in 6.12, as that’s a pretty bleeding-edge kernel at this point (some others on your same distro are experiencing random issues with it and AMD graphics: AMD iGPU - split-second graphical corruption on Linux 6.12.1 - Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware - EndeavourOS )

And for what it’s worth…if using Wayland does stop the issue from popping up, do you have any blockers to using a Wayland session in general? (I would imagine more and more future development will start to clash with the generally static X11 over time)

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Well it is hard to say i didn’t play any retroarch game for 2 Months. But back then it worked fine but that was using different Mesa drivers and a different kernel as well. Since it is happening so randomly without any message in the logs it’s hard to reproduce or knowing what might causing it. So far that Retroarch Emulator seems to be the only thing giving me issues (yet). I now switched to wayland. And have not yet seen the issue. Though i guess i have to see how that goes. I know there has been lots of updates to amdgpu lately and suspect that that might have introduced some Issue. Though the issue you linked me is for the igpus. I use a discrete GPU.