Technical issues.

[✨scintilla✨]

The game is often freezing (it happens almost exclusively during dialogues), and sometimes crashes GPU driver altogether. Lowering settings helped a bit, but I truly don't want to compromise quality this much.

Setup (nothing is overclocked, all packages are updated):
OS: Arch Linux (kernel 6.11.5-arch1-1)
Drive: M.2
GPU: RX 7900XT
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600
RAM: 32GB DDR5

EDIT:

With these settings I haven't encountered any stutters or crashes (basically lowering everything from ultra to high):
Nevermind, it started freezing and crashing again. I'll update settings listed below again if something fixes it.

Currently trying this:

Originally posted by maxmuen:

Try the hair setting, it fixed that very crash for me

Disabling hair strand greatly reduced freezing, but not completely.

It reduced crashing to the point that it is very rare, marking this as answer.

GRAPHICS:

TEXTURES
• Texture Quality: High
  
• Texture Filtering: High
  
  LIGHT AND SHADOW
  
• Lighting Quality: High
  
• Contact Shadows: On
  
• Volumetric Lighting: High
  
• Sky Quality: High
  
  RAY TRACING
  
• Ray-traced Reflections: SELECTIVE
  
• Ray-traced Ambient Occlusion: SELECTIVE
  
• Ultra Ray Tracing: Off
  
  GEOMETRY
  
• Level Of Detail: High
  
• Strand Hair: Off
  
• Terrain Quality: High
  
• Terrain Decoration Quality: High
  
• Visual Effect Quality: High
  
  CAMERA EFFECTS:
  
• Depth Of Field: CINEMATICS
  
• Vignette: On
  
• Motion Blut: On
  
• Post Processing Quality: On
  
• Field Of View: 100%

DISPLAY:

DISPLAY MODE
• Window Mode: BORDERLESS WINDOWED
  
• VSync: On
  
• Triple Buffering: Off
  
  UPSCALING
  
• Upsample Method: AMD FSR
  
• Upsample Quality: BALANCED
  
  RESOLUTION SCALING
  
• Render Scale: 100%
  
• Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off

[reeze]

Same here, freezes on arch with an amd card

[Jarmer]

I am having the same issues, just commenting here in case anyone finds a solution. On an all amd system with good specs. Constant crashing.

[BinaryJay]

Unsupported platform not working perfectly at launch, shocking?

[Jarmer]

Originally posted by BinaryJay:

Unsupported platform not working perfectly at launch, shocking?

what's unsupported? This title is listed as Steam Deck Verified by Steam itself which is a linux system. So please go away and don't bother us with nonsense.

[Nix]

Originally posted by BinaryJay:

Unsupported platform not working perfectly at launch, shocking?

You are clearly ignorant on the matter, just shush on topics you know nothing about.

[maxmuen]

i was able to fix these crashes by disabling strand hair in the graphical settings.

[psyche]

I'm on windows with a 13900k and 4090. The frame pacing is bad, it can be semi fix by forcing it to high priority but the mini stutters are still there mostly during dialogues in cutscene. It baffled me how can DF said this game is smooth. I'm guessing they received the EA app version and this issue is isolated only for steam user. Its just like FFXV, where EA app version is superior with no stutters because steamworks is not used in the EA version.

[megarust]

Yeah, getting major hanging in cutscenes. I don’t remember it happening before I disabled the cinematic bars so I’ll reenable that next. Then I’ll try the strand hair if it continues.

I found it eventually raised direct x errors such as the below. Sometimes it will say device hung I think instead of this and sometimes it won’t happen at all. I’d updated my drivers after that and was disappointed to find it still occurring. Also disabled vsync since Id seen other reports of this issue with other EA games also using frostbite, that didn’t help.

Error:
DirectX function "'GetDeviceRemovedReason" failed with
DXGI ERROR DEVICE_ REMOVED ('The video card has been physically removed from the system, or a driver upgrade for the video card has occurred. *). GPU: *AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX RADY NAVIB1)". Driver:
: 23.10.2 (23.19.02-230831a-396538C-
AMD-Software-Adrenalin-Edition). This error is usually caused by the graphics driver crashing: try installing the latest drivers DeviceRemoved Reason:
DAG ERROR_DEVICE REMOVED (*The video card has been physically removed from the system, or a driver upgrade for the video card has occurred. *) GPUBreadcrumbs:
OK

[maxmuen]

Try the hair setting, it fixed that very crash for me

[Traearc]

I am playing this on the EA App and also experiencing this issue.

[Maarvin]

Originally posted by maxmuen:

Try the hair setting, it fixed that very crash for me

I had this crash at least once an hour, updating the Nvidia drivers didn't change anything, it came back. However, since I unchecked this hair option I haven't had any more crashes, it's been 2h30 without a problem for the moment

[Maarvin]

Originally posted by Maarvin:

Originally posted by maxmuen:

Try the hair setting, it fixed that very crash for me

I had this crash at least once an hour, updating the Nvidia drivers didn't change anything, it came back. However, since I unchecked this hair option I haven't had any more crashes, it's been 2h30 without a problem for the moment

2 hours more and still no crash. I haven't changed anything except this hair option. So it's been 4h30 without a crash. I'm playing in ultra with everything maxed out. 4070 super

[Corran001]

Originally posted by Maarvin:

Originally posted by maxmuen:

Try the hair setting, it fixed that very crash for me

I had this crash at least once an hour, updating the Nvidia drivers didn't change anything, it came back. However, since I unchecked this hair option I haven't had any more crashes, it's been 2h30 without a problem for the moment

Same here

[Subset6]

Might be an NVIDIA issue? On amd gpu Intel cpu and not had any issues with hitching or hangs, cut scene or otherwise. Win 11.

[Balze]

Originally posted by maxmuen:

Try the hair setting, it fixed that very crash for me

Sadly, don't work for me with unchecked hair option. Always crashing...
Sometime it's crashing after around one hour of playing, sometime 20-30min after launching the games, sometime just at the launch.
It's complety random those crash...

Got an I7 13700K, 32gb Ram and a 7900XTX.