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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt freezes

protonclosed appid 292030
ValveSoftware/Proton#8704 · opened 2025-05-17 by crazycorndog · updated 2025-05-17 · 2 comments · github · game page · search this game
Ccrazycorndog 2025-05-17 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • Steam AppID of the game: 292030

System Information

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

Game freezes (video freezes, music keeps playing, cpu and gpu load drops) after up to about 2 minutes. Sometimes within a few seconds, sometimes within a few minutes. I can change windows to Steam and there force close the running game.

Launch options: %command% --launcher-skip

Reproduction

Start the game, load last savegame or continue play and wait up to 2 minutes or so.

Ccrazycorndog 2025-05-17 github

Proton log attached steam-292030.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-05-17 github

Hello @crazycorndog, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/607#issuecomment-2887898857.

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