[Runtime Bug]: Crash on start for both Portal and HL2:RTX

[ted-sheeran]

Describe the bug

These are for the steam release versions, not any personal meddling. The application opens, whether it be portal or half-life 2. That is it. By opens, I mean the valve brand screen displays, with the Remix blurbs in all their normal spots. That last for about 1-2 seconds. The sound of the valve theme cuts off, and the application freezes. After about 20 seconds of thinking, and my tired clicking, the application closes or the Runtime failure box appears. My drivers have always been the newest possible, but this has been a persistent issue with portal and now HL2.

How do you reproduce the bug?

Fresh download the game and press play, apparently. :)
Those were the only steps taken for HL2

What is the expected behavior?

I've played Portal RTX. Much closer to the game's release, it actually booted, and worked, and I could play levels, and it was fun. Then the next time I tried, and believe me I've scared myself with some things I've tried, it does not open.

Version

Whatever HL2 has

Logs

bridge32.log
bridge64.log
remix-dxvk.log

Crash dumps

NvRemixBridge.exe_20250313_150153.dmp
NvRemixBridge.exe_20250319_012057.dmp
NvRemixBridge.exe_20250319_012408.dmp
NvRemixBridge.exe_20250319_014729.dmp

Media

No response

[anon-apple]

On the first launch HL2: RTX (and Remix in general) does take a long time to load, you may need to wait a minute or more depending on your CPU due to an issue which has yet to have the fix integrated. Essentially it is compiling some shaders synchronously and blocking the game from executing until that is done, which makes the application stop responding for that duration.

If you still can't get it working after giving it a bit more time to load though then feel free to mention that and keep this issue open.

[ted-sheeran]

ngl this is the least helpful anyone has been to me in recent memory and I manage in hospitality. At least read the damn problem first. You think I haven't tried every method of patience or lack thereof an uncountably finite number of times? The Runtime error window closes the game itself after having frozen for long enough. It fails after 2 seconds. I'd be waiting for nothing.