Black Screen when used in conjunction with NVIDIA Smooth Motion in Nier Automata.

dxvkclosed nvidia proprietarynot our bugwindows

doitsujin/dxvk#5442 · opened 2026-01-10 by Graylies047 · updated 2026-01-10 · 1 comments · github

GGraylies047 2026-01-10 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

Name of the game, settings used etc. If using mods or addons, list them aswell.

Nier Automata
High Settings
SMAA
NVIDIA Smooth Motion
Wolf's Automata eXtensions (WAX)
Automata-LodMod

System information

GPU: RTX 5060 TI
Driver: 591.74
Wine version:
DXVK version: 2.7.1

Apitrace file(s)

For instructions on how to use apitrace, see: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Using-Apitrace

Log files

No log file is created when DXVK and Smooth Motion are used simultaneously.

KK0bin maintainer 2026-01-10 github

This is outside of our control.

Nvidia Smooth Motion is a driver hack essentially and that just happens not to work with DXVK despite us presenting frames normally. That feature only exists on Windows anyway and Windows is pretty much unsupported by DXVK.

Nothing extracted yet.