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Dark Messiah Singleplayer Demo crashes on startup (Windows)

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doitsujin/dxvk#5228 · opened 2025-09-26 by thatsprettygood · updated 2025-10-03 · 6 comments · github
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Tthatsprettygood 2025-09-26 github

Crashes on startup, works fine without DXVK.

Software information

Dark Messiah Singleplayer Demo
Downloadable for free on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100/Dark_Messiah_of_Might__Magic/)

System information

  • GPU: RTX 3080
  • Driver: 572.70.0
  • DXVK version: 2.7.1

Log files

mm_d3d9.log

BBlisto91 2025-09-26 github

Not reproducing a crash with the demo on Linux/with Proton using Intel or AMD.

Does current master behave the same? You can download a build here https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/actions/runs/18042917510

Tthatsprettygood 2025-09-26 github

Same with master, seems to be a windows or nvidia issue then.
Don't know if the logs are any different, but here.
mm_d3d9.log

BBlisto91 2025-09-29 github

Doing some poking here it seems that i am able to get the demo to run with dxvk on Windows by either forcing it to run as administrator or setting up DISABLE_VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_overlay_1 in the environment with a value set to 1.

In event viewer the following can be observed when it crashes

Faulting application name: mm.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x45211f69
Faulting module name: GameOverlayRenderer64.dll, version: 10.9.21.23, time stamp: 0x68d32668
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000c6718
Faulting process id: 0x0x1308
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DC318171DF2378
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Singleplayer Demo\mm.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayRenderer64.dll
Report Id: 1b8ef5a4-6679-491b-a4f0-0b2c2de8e218
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

This is tested on Windows 11 with my RTX 4080

Tthatsprettygood 2025-09-30 github

Yup, executing directly does not crash.
Steam shenanigans, it seems.

Tthatsprettygood 2025-10-02 github

Should this be reported to Steam or is this something can be fixed with DXVK?

BBlisto91 2025-10-03 github

It is unlikely that this is something that can be fixed in dxvk. Seems like it might also be exclusive to Windows

DLLs

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