It could be the issue if above 4g decoding/resizable bar is not enabled: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3343
had a similar issue that my system would freeze completely after playing FO76, had to downgrade the kernel to get my games to work again.
The default config for sudo is to ask for root password. I too was annoyed by this and had to change the setting to ask for the user password, not root, every time I used sudo.