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Keyboard input causes game stutters or even lockup

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ValveSoftware/Proton#9520 · opened 2026-02-23 by DADA30000 · updated 2026-02-23 · 1 comments · github
DDADA30000 2026-02-23 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Titanfall 2
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1237970

System Information

  • GPU: Any, tested on RX 580 and iGPU of Ryzen 5 3500u
  • Video driver version: 26.0.0
  • Kernel version: Linux 6.18.9-zen1
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: 10

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

Pressing and/or holding keyboard keys results in stutters, even can cause complete controlled freeze, only happening in Proton 10 and higher, no such problem in Proton 9, also happens in GE, and I couldn't reproduce it on regular wine
Also you can see in mangohud that when you like start holding 1 key the frametime graph becomes more "fuzzy", and that in heavy scenes there are a lot of micro-stutters, you can also see spikes when you click the keyboard keys

Reproduction

Start Titanfall 2
For clarity, start any campaign mission, or enter any match
Start constantly clicking ~8 keys on keyboard simultaneously

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-02-23 github

Hello @DADA30000, 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/4001#issuecomment-3946145273

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