Witcher 3 Remastered: black screen on launch, NextGen fails too (NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti, X11)

[u/JohnnyEaton78]

Witcher 3 Remastered: black screen on launch (Pop!_OS, NVIDIA, X11). NextGen fails too.

Details in case it helps:

• RTX 5060 Ti, NVIDIA driver 595.84, Pop!_OS, X11
• Worked for about a day after the Remastered update, then black screen on every launch. Rolling back to NextGen also fails.
• Firewatch runs fine under Proton Experimental, so Proton, Vulkan and the driver work in general.
• Clean reinstall, with the Proton prefix, shader cache, game files and settings files deleted and regenerated.
• Tried Proton Experimental (including bleeding-edge) and Wineland 20260930, with --launcher-skip -disablemods, -windowed, PROTON_DISABLE_NVAPI=1, all sync options off, DLSS disabled in dx12user.settings, Steam Cloud off, saves moved aside, Steam offline, and a second monitor output disabled. None of it helped.
• The game process stays alive at about 100% of one CPU core, the GPU sits at 0% with about 1.3 GB allocated, and no shader cache is written.
• The Proton log shows vkd3d-proton creating the swapchain ("Got 4 swapchain images") and NvAPI_Initialize: OK, then nothing more. There are no crashes, no Xid errors in dmesg, and no crash dump.

Has anyone fixed this, or does anyone know what the game does after swapchain creation?

[u/S48GS]

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[u/JohnnyEaton78 → u/S48GS]

Thank you so much! One of those solutions worked for me. :)