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Gothic Remake crashes in New Camp with Heap enabled

vkd3dopen NVIDIA descriptor heaps
HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton#3114 · opened 2026-06-19 by Alien3294 · updated 2026-07-24 · 5 comments · github
AAlien3294 2026-06-19 github

Gothic Remake freezes and crashes to desktop when entering the big cave in New Camp. The game worked very well for ~ 8 hours of gameplay before arriving to New Camp.
Disabling descriptor heap fixes crashing, but performance is significantly worse.

Software information

Gothic Remake.
Launch variables: VKD3D_CONFIG=descriptor_heap gamemoderun %command%

System information

  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 5080
  • Driver: 595.80
  • Wine version: CachyOS-Proton 11.0-20260602-slr & Proton Experimental Bleeding Edge
  • VKD3D-Proton version: 3.1.0

Log files

Please attach Proton or Wine logs as a text file:

steam-1297900.log

AAlien3294 2026-06-20 github

Game crashes also when getting near to the Swamp Camp - log attached.

steam-1297900.log

Kkniski-nv 2026-07-14 github

Game crashes also when getting near to the Swamp Camp - log attached.

steam-1297900.log

Can you share a savegame from around the area that causes the crash? Also, have you been able to check on 610 or beta drivers by any chance?

AAlien3294 2026-07-15 github

Nvidia 610 just became available on Fedora today. I loaded some old save from act 1, Swamp Camp didn't crash but the game crashed again when approached the cave in New Camp.
I loaded also my very last autosave from the Sleeper fight - game crashed after few seconds.

Fresh save from New Camp, not far from the cave.

G1R-023.zip

I also feel the game stutters much more with heap enabled. It runs buttery smooth without heap but it needs 2-3 save loads to run that stable.

Kkniski-nv 2026-07-16 github

Nvidia 610 just became available on Fedora today. I loaded some old save from act 1, Swamp Camp didn't crash but the game crashed again when approached the cave in New Camp. I loaded also my very last autosave from the Sleeper fight - game crashed after few seconds.

Fresh save from New Camp, not far from the cave.

G1R-023.zip

I also feel the game stutters much more with heap enabled. It runs buttery smooth without heap but it needs 2-3 save loads to run that stable.

Thanks for the save file, i was able to reproduce the crash with it.

Kkniski-nv 2026-07-24 github

This bug should be resolved in the linux beta driver. Please give that a shot if you can.

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