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Fallout New Vegas black screen at the menu with 2.6.x but works with 2.5.x

dxvkclosed windowsamd proprietary
doitsujin/dxvk#4855 · opened 2025-04-17 by Yrouel · updated 2026-06-17 · 3 comments · github
YYrouel 2025-04-17 github

I installed Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition from Steam and followed the recommendations to install DXVK to improve performances and stability.
I installed the latest 2.6.1 version first which resulted in a black screen so on a hunch I tried earlier versions, 2.6.0 first which also had the same issue and then the 2.5.3 which seems to work fine.

Software information

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition (Steam)
Tried both vanilla and with mods (NVSE 6.3.10b, YUP, MCM, NVAC, NVTF)

System information

  • GPU: AMD Radeon 680M (Ryzen 7 Pro 6850H)
  • Driver: AMD Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 (driver only)
  • Wine version: N/A
  • Windows version: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100
  • DXVK version: 2.6.1

Apitrace file(s)

N/A

Log files

Attached FalloutNV_d3d9 logs for both 2.5.3 (works) and 2.6.1 (black screen)

FalloutNV_d3d9_2.5.3.log
FalloutNV_d3d9_2.6.1.log

BBlisto91 2025-04-18 github

This is likely the usual known AMD Windows driver problem that maybe just changed behavior in a few games with the swapchain work in 2.6. The below is spammed in both logs.

err:   D3D9SwapChainEx: Failed to recreate swap chain: -13

Not aware of any other driver on Linux or Windows having the issue. The cause is not known

YYrouel 2025-04-18 github

If it's of any relevance on the same system and same drivers 2.6.1 works just fine with Dead Space (the original) and Far Cry

Dead Space_d3d9.log

KK0bin maintainer 2025-04-19 github

Yeah, we have no clue what causes this problem other than that it's most likely some driver bug.

Nothing extracted yet.