Please try 396.18.11, your driver version has known issues with Tessellation in The Witcher 3.
Some people can't install 396.18.11 due to a recent xorg server glitch. Causes the driver to break leaving you with a blank login screen with just the cursor.
@jarrard you can get into a tty anyway
To do what?
The driver fails extremely hard, there is no display unit connected sort of error. tty in won't give you anything unless you intend to uninstall it.
As far as I know, the 390.48 driver doesn't support xorg 1.20 either, so they are probably running an older version (it's Debian Testing anyway, not Arch Testing or Gentoo or anything like that).
There is this problem with driver 396.18.11 on Antergos (and probably also Arch Linux):
https://forum.antergos.com/topic/9928/nvidia-driver-version-396-18-11-issues/2
I understand why you are using a development version of the Nvidia driver. I personally won't install this driver because I don't have a testing system, and I would like to be able to update the driver via a package management system because I know that I will have unresolvable problems otherwise.
I have one last question before I will close the issue. How is the Vulkan support on the open-source AMD drivers. Will I have the same amount of issues when I use a RX 560 4GB with the padoka PPA for example? Which one has the most complete Vulkan support right now?
396.24 on the other hand works fine with xorg1.20. Sometimes Nvidia make me wonder!
@88i I'm not using that driver since I'm on RADV anyway, but people have successfully run The Witcher 3 with the latest beta drivers. Waiting for packages to be updated is of course reasonable.
RADV runs very well with some games but not at all with others (see #252). Right now, Nvidia should offer the least problematic Vulkan experience, although I hope for RADV to catch up.
@doitsujin Thank you for the replies. I'll wait until Nvidia releases a new driver.
@88i They released 396.24.02 yesterday. You could try that. It should have all the fixes from 396.18.x with Xorg 1.20 support.
Nothing extracted yet.
Software information
The Witcher 3
Postprocessing: everything enabled except ambient occlusion
Graphics : low
System gamma: off
Hairworks: off
Hardware cursor: off
Other graphics settings: low or medium
I used The Witcher 3 on Debian Testing with driver 390.48 and I had a crash. This issue was a know problem of the 390.48 driver and fixed in 396.24 so I needed to use the newer driver. But updating to version 396 via the package manager in Debian Testing (and even in Debian Sid) isn't possible. The only distros that are able to install driver 396 via the package manager seem to be Ubuntu (only via a PPA) and Arch Linux (and their derivatives) It's not possible to install the 396 driver via the package manager in very popular distros like Fedora, SUSE Tumbleweed, Debian, .. So I installed Antergos and I have version 396.24 and the performance (especially during the cutscenes) is better. But now I have a constantly present flickering objects issue (that I didn't have with driver 390 and DXVK version 0.51).
I indicated one of the flickering objects here with an arrow:
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System information
Log files
d3d11.log
dxgi.log
Many objects are flickering all the time in the Novigrad map. It makes the game unplayable.
Is this a known issue?