S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Game freezes when fullscreened on latest Nvidia drivers

protonclosed appid 4500Game compatibilityNVIDIA drivers

ValveSoftware/Proton#7666 · opened 2024-04-24 by AQDuck97 · updated 2024-04-24 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game

AAQDuck97 2024-04-24 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Steam AppID of the game: 4500

System Information

GPU: RTX 3080
Video driver version: Nvidia 550.76
Kernel version: 6.8.7
Link to full system information report: gist
Proton version: Experimental and Proton 8

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.

steam-4500.log

Symptoms

The game ran fine before, but then I updated my system (which includes Nvidia 550.76 drivers and Linux 6.8.7) and now the game completely freezes when I fullscreen it. It runs fine when in windowed

I have previously tried to downgrade Nvidia drivers with very glitchy results so I'm not trusting that process this time, but I did downgrade Hyprland to a known-working version with the same result so I don't think this is a Hyprland issue.

I'm using Hyprland which only runs Wayland

Reproduction

1: Launch Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl on latest Nvidia drivers under Wayland
2: Fullscreen the game

AAQDuck97 2024-04-24 github

It turns out that this bug is likely due to allow_tearing option on Hyprland, maybe an Nvidia driver update that borked the feature.
Setting the option to false lets me play the game, just with forced Vsync.

Nothing extracted yet.