Is anyone experiencing freezes during cutscenes?

[morissonmaciel]

On two different machines, both Windows and Linux with AMD GPUs, the game freezes during cutscenes but recovers as soon as they end. On Windows, however, the game has crashed twice so far.

(Please haters…stay away!)

[schmatzler]

I had the freezes on Linux with my 7800XT, too. The kernel log showed that the driver crashed everytime, but was recovered.

No problems on Windows so far, except a few artifacts when FSR is enabled here and there. They look like my GPU is dying (small rectangles), but it's new, so that would be weird. :D

AMD released a new beta driver just for this game, maybe try that one out:
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-20-19-05.html

[BrattyPhoebe]

I was experiencing stuttering until went down to medium in settings it fixed a lot. I still wish I could run this at High, and by my specs should be able too, but unfortunately while it is well optimised it still needs some optimization.

[Vexx]

Turning off the Single Hair thingy option stopped the freezes. I can run all the other options on Ultra on a 7800 XT.

The only other problem I currently have is that sometimes when there are popups, like picking up an item or a note and it shows the item info, it crashes my whole user session.

[morissonmaciel]

Originally posted by schmatzler:

I had the freezes on Linux with my 7800XT, too. The kernel log showed that the driver crashed everytime, but was recovered.

No problems on Windows so far, except a few artifacts when FSR is enabled here and there. They look like my GPU is dying (small rectangles), but it's new, so that would be weird. :D

AMD released a new beta driver just for this game, maybe try that one out:
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-20-19-05.html

Nice! I’ll give these Beta drivers a try on Windows and share my findings with you all. Fun fact: the game was running quite well on both 7800 XT and 7900 XTX rigs at launch. But after a suspicious shader update from Valve’s servers, the issues began.

[morissonmaciel]

Originally posted by PaladinQuinn:

I was experiencing stuttering until went down to medium in settings it fixed a lot. I still wish I could run this at High, and by my specs should be able too, but unfortunately while it is well optimised it still needs some optimization.

Hey Paladin, it seems the issue might be related to the hair strands quality setting that other users are reporting. Setting it to medium essentially disables the feature halfway, so you still get nice hair but without the ultra-high quality. Plus, you get better stability!

[morissonmaciel]

Originally posted by Vexx:

Turning off the Single Hair thingy option stopped the freezes. I can run all the other options on Ultra on a 7800 XT.

The only other problem I currently have is that sometimes when there are popups, like picking up an item or a note and it shows the item info, it crashes my whole user session.

I’ll upvote this as the real solution for freezes and crashes.
For anyone experiencing performance issues on Linux, even on powerful machines, try playing at medium settings, adjusting lighting and textures as needed.

It’s possible that Valve’s precompiled caches on Steam servers could use some improvements.

[Barugon]

Originally posted by Vexx:

Turning off the Single Hair thingy option stopped the freezes. I can run all the other options on Ultra on a 7800 XT.

The only other problem I currently have is that sometimes when there are popups, like picking up an item or a note and it shows the item info, it crashes my whole user session.

Thanks for that! Totally fixed the performance issues for me.

The setting is called "Strand Hair" BTW.

[mytrixx]

In linux fixed - https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/commit/45e44534e9eebfc53dfbc84479af22a5f49f3517

[Demonbox]

Not personally having this issue (as a matter of fact this is one of the best running games I've played recently), posting just to keep a useful thread relevant.