https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93649
--- Comment #44 from Rosco P. Coltrane roscofdporg@manashort.com --- I don't know if it can be of any help, but I've been playing "7 days to die" during the last weeks, regularly for the last days, and I didn't encounter any kind of bug.
Until yesterday evening where at my great surprise I had the same bug (freeze, sound loop) which totally crashed my machine once and only froze it (with a recovery after a few seconds) twice.
I checked that no update occurred on the game files, on the steam runtime and on my OS between the days when it worked flawlessly and yesterday when it crashed 3 time in 15 minutes.
So if it's not only related to files, could it be related to the hardware? Could it be a faulty card (HD7970), or maybe a mix between a faulty hardware and some software instruction?