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Dyson Sphere Program severe performance issues

dxvkclosed
doitsujin/dxvk#2451 · opened 2022-01-23 by iczero · updated 2025-07-03 · 7 comments · github
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Iiczero 2022-01-23 github

HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEM

The game requires at least 4 GB of VRAM to run with dxvk. If you have less, use wined3d instead (if using proton, set PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1).

Original issue

The game runs at below 5 fps when using dxvk, but runs fine under wined3d (more than 45 fps on average). Replaying captured apitrace from wined3d with dxvk yields a similar decrease in performance.

Others have replicated this issue, see https://www.protondb.com/app/1366540.

Software information

System information

  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
  • Driver: Nvidia 495.46
  • Wine version: Wine 6.3-3, Proton Experimental
  • DXVK version: 1.9.3

Apitrace file(s)

Log files

Ddoitsujin maintainer 2022-01-23 github

are you running out of vram or something? Seems like a likely cause given that everyone who does complain about low performance on protondb seems to be running older 2GB Nvidia GPUs.

Trace replays perfectly fine here but it immediately consumes over 3GB of VRAM even in the menu.

Iiczero 2022-01-23 github

Yeah, it does look like I ran out of VRAM. I'll go test on a bigger GPU, sorry.

Iiczero 2022-01-23 github

Yep, it works fine on a GPU with more VRAM. Sorry about the false report.

Aawsms 2025-04-18 github

https://www.protondb.com/app/1366540
It seems like nobody is able to get more than 15FPS in this game without disabling dxvk with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1, and most of the reports made in the last 10 months were with a 6-8GB VRAM GPU (RX 6600, RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Laptop, RTX 3070). I've 8GB VRAM on an RTX4070 laptop.

Aawsms 2025-07-02 github

Could this be reopened please?

Iiczero 2025-07-02 github

@awsms can you do an apitrace? https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Using-Apitrace

Also you might want to file a new issue. It's probably a different problem this time.

BBlisto91 2025-07-03 github

A new issue would be best yes

Proton versions

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