Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Need for Speed Unbound
• Steam AppID of the game: 1846380

System Information

• GPU: RTX 4060 (same muxed to dgpu or using prime via intel iris xe)
• Video driver version: tried 545.29.06 (what originally worked), 550.40.07, 550.54.14
• Kernel version: tried 6.6.6 and 6.8 rc4
• Link to full system information report as System Info Runtime Info
• Proton version: tried ge-8-21 (what originally worked), proton 8.0.1, and latest proton experimental

I confirm:

• [X] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [X] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

• Low fps and bad frame times across the entire game
• Even the intro video runs at bearly 20fps
• The menu before loading any game resources is laggy runs at 20fps
• both CPU and GPU usage is below 10%
• Works fine in windows
• Used to work fine in linux before vol 6
• RDR2, and CS2 are fine on linux too
• Being on Ultra or low makes no difference

Reproduction

• Use linux
• Play NFS Unbound

Logs and Screenshots

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