Apps/games with DXVK freeze after a few seconds

[eclipse-909]

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Every game I try will start and work for maybe a few seconds, but then the frame rate tanks and the game freezes. I'm running my games with Steam and Lutris. If I enable DXVK, it freezes, but it runs if it's disabled. I am able to run native Vulkan games like vkcube with no problem. If I force the game to use my Intel iGPU, it doesn't seem to ever freeze.

Screen recording of running Cube.exe via Lutris with and without DXVK:

simplescreenrecorder-2025-11-03_14.04.43.mp4

Software information

Name of the game, settings used etc. If using mods or addons, list them aswell.

• Risk: Global Domination - freezes with DXVK at splash screen. Works fine without
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - freezes with DXVK usually at main menu. Black screen + UI without
• Guild Wars 2 - freezes with DXVK at character selection. Works without DXVK, but bad performance and I'm hoping it would perform better with DXVK
• Cube.exe - simple test DX11 program which renders a cube you can drag around - freezes with DXVK. Works without, but I get some weird black flickers and small visual glitches

There have been some instances where I get into actual gameplay with frequent frame rate drops, and eventual freezing. Where/when the freeze exactly occurs doesn't seem to be deterministic, although some environment variable settings allowed the game to freeze during gameplay rather than at the splash screen or main menu. __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS and DXVK_ASYNC may have done something, but it's really hard to tell since it always freezes.

System information

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design
• Driver: 580.95.05
• Wine version: 10.17 (also tried wine staging)
• DXVK version: 2.7.1 (also tried 2.6.2, 2.5.3, 2.4.1, and 1.10.3)

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Razer
Model: CH530
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0xa
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2600 MHz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
BMI1: Supported
BMI2: Supported
F16C: Supported
FMA: Supported
Operating System:
"openSUSE Tumbleweed" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.17.4-1-default
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12101015
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_1.0.20250723.149234
Client Information:
Version: 1759461205
Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Disabled
Browser Canvas: Unavailable
Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled
Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Browser Compositing: Disabled
Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Browser OpenGL: Disabled
Browser Rasterization: Disabled
Browser Raw Draw: Disabled
Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled
Browser Video Decode: Disabled
Browser Video Encode: Disabled
Browser Vulkan: Disabled
Browser WebGL: Unavailable
Browser WebGL2: Unavailable
Browser WebGPU: Disabled
Browser WebNN: Disabled
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 580.95.05
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 120 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1f10
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 3
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.64" (15.51" diag), 34.4cm x 19.4cm (39.4cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 8192 MB
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC298
Memory:
RAM: 15885 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
No VR configuration with trackers detected
Most number of trackers in a session: 0
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 471475 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 309220 MB
Storage:
Number of SSDs: 1
SSD sizes: 512G
Number of HDDs: 0
Number of removable drives: 0

Apitrace file(s)

Google Drive Folder

This folder has 2 traces.

• Cube-wined3d.trace was made with DXVK disabled
• Cube-dxvk.trace was made with DXVK enabled

In both runs, the process terminated before the window opened so I don't know if the problem was replicated. Both were compressed with apitrace repack --brotli=2 Cube.trace <output>.trace.

Log files

Log from running Cube.exe with Lutris and DXVK enabled (I stopped the game after it froze):

game.log

Cube_d3d11.log

Cube_dxgi.log

[doitsujin]

This isn't really something that's debuggable remotely, the only thing I can really say here is that PRIME setups involving Nvidia have been working more or less fine for me for the past 5½ years (less for Wayland, but that is also fine now at least on my desktop) and I can't reproduce this.

Would be good to know if other Vulkan apps work on the NV card (i.e. D3D12 games, VK games, wined3d with vulkan, etc), but I don't really see any way to troubleshoot this without a way to reproduce.