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Rain World crashes after extended playtime

dxvkclosed d3d11
doitsujin/dxvk#5049 · opened 2025-06-26 by KayLilac · updated 2025-09-28 · 3 comments · github
KKayLilac 2025-06-26 github

in recent versions of dxvk the game crashes after a extended period of time, it can range from hours to minutes, always happens during gameplay to me, i've tested older versions of dxvk and the issue is not present on them, it's been a while already since i last tested but i believe the oldest possible version where this didn't occur was 2.4 everything before works fine, everything after has crashing.

i have looked at protondb and the few people mentioning crashes report the same issue. it seems like this happens on both windows and linux (in my case i'm on windows, and alongside the game crashing, my gpu crashes too, lots of visual problems start appearing and i'm forced to restart my system, i don't know if linux experiences just the crash and nothing else).

Software information

Rain World (Downpour and The Watcher DLC owned and installed), high preset selected, borderless window, vsync on, max available resolution, some mods installed (have already tested without them they're not the problem)

System information

  • GPU: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
  • Driver: 32.0.101.6881
  • Wine version: N/A (i'm on Windows 11 24h2)
  • DXVK version: 2.6.2

Apitrace file(s)

  • couldn't get it to work

Log files

RainWorld_d3d11.log
(dxgi log is empty)

Ddoitsujin maintainer 2025-06-26 github

Needs a reliable way to trigger the crash, if it's random and can take hours then this isn't exactly debuggable.

KKayLilac 2025-06-26 github

Needs a reliable way to trigger the crash, if it's random and can take hours then this isn't exactly debuggable.

oof, well, i'm sorry but i don't think i can provide a reliable way, it is pretty random, just yesterday when i was trying to get a log out of the game i got it to crash not 3 minutes after i started playing XDD but that also could have been because i was quitting and opening it back up again a lot? idk

buut, if this could be any help, it seems like the game is particularly unstable when playing through the watcher dlc, at least on my end when i was playing it back in march it was so unstable that it was what made me search for a dxvk version that didn't crash, before i never really minded the crashes because they were quite infrequent but they really started getting bad when playing through that dlc.
this could differ on linux tho, so i don't know if this would be very reliable.

but, yeah, i understand if this one can be a hard thing to deal with.

(also i don't know if this would be useful but, the game was originally 32bit but later they updated it to be 64bit. i doubt this would be relevant though, since i've played it with dxvk waay before this update happened and i also had crashes but yeah, just felt like mentioning it)

KKayLilac 2025-09-28 github

hello, a couple months back i finally dumped windows and switched to linux, but only recently got back to actively playing rain world. i've been playing the game for hours now and haven't experienced a single problem on my end, at least here on bazzite there are no problems with the game.
since i'm personally having no problems i'll mark this issue as closed

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