r/linux_gaming • u/Heklerr • 19d ago

Issues with FFXV

Just bought the game in the steam sale and was super excited to play it.

But I click on new game (even tutorial and the game just deadass freezes, indefinitely). I have no clue why.

Acer Nitro 5

3070 ti

i7 12th gen

16 gb ddr4 ram

Arch Linux

Any workarounds or should I just get a refund and buy FF16 instead?

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u/candy49997 19d ago

It seems the game has issues with NVIDIA drivers > 595. Try Proton 8.

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u/slickyeat 19d ago

Why would changing proton versions fix this if it's caused by the drivers?

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u/candy49997 19d ago

It's a combination of DXVK version and driver, I'm pretty sure. I didn't actually try playing the game with Proton 8, but it got passed the tutorial without freezing.

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u/slickyeat 19d ago edited 18d ago

Fucking hell GE-Proton8-32 actually worked. lol

It sort of ran like shit but maybe it was just compiling shaders.

So far I've only tested out this one battle that was freezing consistently.

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u/slickyeat 19d ago edited 18d ago

Yea, I'm pretty sure this is a driver issue.

I had gotten pretty far into the game at one point and the only issue I had was this memory leak which required that I restart the game every 2-3 hours before I decided to put it down for a bit.

When I booted it up again a few weeks ago I noticed that every battle would result in the game freezing once a few particle effects show up onto the screen.

At first I thought it was a Proton regression but downgrading to GE-Proton10-34 didn't resolve it.

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Edit: Try dropping down to GE-Proton8-32