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FFXIV hangs upon loading with DXVK like instantly hangs

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doitsujin/dxvk#5416 · opened 2025-12-30 by BSDGurl · updated 2026-06-16 · 2 comments · github
BBSDGurl 2025-12-30 github

Please describe your issue as accurately as possible. Include screenshots or videos when relevant.

If you use Windows, please check the following page: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Windows

Software information

FFXIV - XIVLauncher (mod loader)
Altho it freezes to a crash even with the vanilla launcher

System information

  • GPU: RX 9070XT
  • Driver: 25.12.1
  • Wine version: (on windows it used to work fine)
  • DXVK version: 2.7.1
  • Does not matter Windowed, Fullscreen, or Fullscreen Windowed it crashes.
Ddoitsujin maintainer 2025-12-30 github

I played the game two days ago on Linux, so there's that.

Honestly, given the influx of annoying, non-actionable issues with AMD's Windows driver I'm somewhat tempted to just annoy users with a message box that they're running an unsupported driver. It's known to be more or less entirely broken on RDNA3+ at this point, for unknown reasons. My RDNA2 GPU still sort of works, but no longer gets feature updates, so 🤷

BBSDGurl 2026-01-20 github

I just wish Square would update their damn game to use vulkan natively, I would go to linux but I have a lot of proprietary windows software that just does not translate to linux otherwise I would be running it on more than my laptop. DXVK was the only way I could play with my 9070XT on older drivers, at +40FPS with mods, with DX11 I am sub 40FPS with mods and sub 60 FPS without.

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