I found a reliable way to reproduce the crashing. Start "Drake's Downhill" motocross race and hit the jump over the buildings. It's crashed 5/5 times so far doing that. Here's the save: wd2save.zip
Also something to note, each time the game crashes Gnome shell restarts whether I'm using a virtual desktop or not. The latest attempt actually restart Gnome 3 consecutive times.
Gnome shell log in case that's helpful: wd2gnome.txt
Tried the game on KDE and it crashes in the same spot.
Disable Uplay overlay and vsync in the game settings.
I don't know if it was a driver bug or DXVK but this seems fixed. Drake's Downhill race doesn't trigger a freeze anymore.
Nothing extracted yet.
The game crashes/freezes when starting a new game but I was able to obtain a save after the prologue and I'm able to play for some time. However, the game crashes for seemingly no reason, or no reason that I can see, and I've only been able to play about 10-15 minutes at a time before crashing.
Software information
High, Medium, and Low it doesn't matter which preset I use.
System information
Apitrace file(s)
Log files