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Zenless Zone Zero

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8951 · opened 2025-08-05 by syzzori · updated 2026-01-04 · 6 comments · github
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Ssyzzori 2025-08-05 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Zenless Zone Zero
  • Steam AppID of the game: /

System Information

I confirm:

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

steam-16830031616599392256.zip

Symptoms

The cpu usage is abnormally high. Using regular vanilla wine / wine staging, as well as compiling wine-tkg runs on ~30% of cpu usage, exactly how it is in windows.

Reproduction

Launch the game, from the moment it launches the cpu usage spikes up a lot.

Ssyzzori 2025-08-05 github

making a report instead of my buddy having the same issue

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Zenless Zone Zero
  • Steam AppID of the game: /

System Information

I confirm:

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

steam-11470719996712189952.log

Symptoms

CPU usage also pretty high for this type of game, also confirm that vanilla wine runs normally at around 20% cpu usage.

Ggalacticaledge 2025-08-29 github

I hear Unity games are bottlenecked by the engine's poor code, even on Windows to a certain extent.

But I hear the workaround is to set the Windows version reported to Windows 8.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-12-06 github

Zenless Zone Zero

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9288.
@Colomaxx posted on 2025-12-06T17:19:48:

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Zenless Zone Zero
  • Steam AppID of the game: Non-Steam Game

System Information

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4070
  • Video driver version: NVIDIA 580.105.08
  • Kernel version: Linux 6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64
  • Link to full system information: Gist
  • Proton version: 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.

steam-14977600926070603776.log

Symptoms

The game successfully starts but always freeze at the login step. Showing "steam_app_0" is not responding.
After a while, the server connection is timed out and you can reconnect, if you do, the same problem reappear.
Switching Proton version, kernel version, reinstalling/repairing the game doesn't change anything and you always end up in that situation.

Reproduction

  • Start the game, either directly from the game executable or from HoYoPlay (HoYoVerse's launcher). Doing either way doesn't change the final issue, always end up the same if you start the game with its own .exe or from the launcher.
  • After the logo intro and first loading, press to play.
  • Wait for "Loading config data" to end.
  • Press to play again.
  • When you reach the login step "Logging on to game server; please wait" the game automatically freeze and fail to login. After a little while, the game is showing the following error "Server connection timed out. Attempt to reconnect?" message.
    Login in again or reconnecting repeat the same error. It's always good to precise that the servers are fully working and have no issues.

It's supposed that the error is tied to Intel's CPU as Zenless Zone Zero is working perfectly fine on an AMD platform. Either on the Steam Deck or another machine with an AMD's CPU. Others users have reported a similar issue on Intel LGA1700 platform on Reddit
The issue started after the 2.4 release of the game, before that, it was working flawlessly.
The only found fix to make the game working was to play on CachyOS.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-01-03 github

Zenless Zone Zero fails to launch with RTX and DLSS on DX12

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9365.
@Bossiskeyboard posted on 2026-01-03T13:36:18:

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues:
  • Steam AppID of the game:

System Information

  • GPU: RTX 4090
  • Video driver version: 590.48.01
  • Kernel version: Linux 6.18.2-pikas
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: Proton Hotfix

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.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PS83FVyc99D9b1i6UpcrllDyX3RLCLjo/view?usp=sharing

Symptoms

When i try to launch ZenlessZoneZero with DX12, RTX and DLSS the game would not pass the loading screen that comes after the title screen. Even if I don't force DXVK_NVAPI and just enable or not even at all, this will happen anyways. I even tried different versions of Proton and they also don't work. I even tried to use spritz wine and that also doesn't work.

Reproduction

PROTON_FORCE_NVAPI=1 %command% -use-d3d12

https://youtu.be/yV-QH6K2O60

Nnovesce 2026-01-03 github

I would like this issue to be fixed please as it can benefit ZZZ in the future.

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