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Crimson Desert - Enabling ray tracing produces stutters

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HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton#3104 · opened 2026-06-11 by adolfotregosa · updated 2026-08-29 · 2 comments · github
Aadolfotregosa 2026-06-11 github

I'm starting to play this game and there are stutters when moving around in certain locations. I've narrowed it down to the Ray Tracing option. Stutters disappear with ray tracing off. I dunno if you guys can do anything about this so I'm asking.

I don't use windows anymore to test it over there.

Software information

Crimsom Desert - Just Ray Tracing On/Off. Other settings don't matter.

System information

  • GPU: 9070XT
  • Driver: 26.1.2
  • VKD3D-Proton version: cachyos-Latest

I recorded a short sample video showing the stutters.
Youtube

(Youtube introduces slight stutters on playback, there is zero stutters with ray tracing off. Link to the original file bellow.)
Original recording

Thank you

Aadolfotregosa 2026-08-04 github

I installed Windows to test this and in Windows there's no stutters with raytracing on. It's really smooth.

Aadolfotregosa 2026-08-29 github

Stutters fixed by VKD3D-proton commit 3a5d6dfe5da76ff504e873852790203c673f873b

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