Does this also happen when you replay the apitrace using d3dretrace.exe? On my system, the trace renders just fine, but I don't have an Optimus setup.
Yup, same black screen.
On my system equipped with a GTX1060, the apitrace plays just fine, without a black screen.

Same software versions (Nvidia driver 410.73, wine staging 3.20, DXVK 0.92), on a GTX1060. It's also an Optimus machine, although I do not use nvidia-xrun.
Interesting. How do you load your games then? Afaik I can't use primusrun with dxvk.
I use this method : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus#Using_nvidia plus a custom script that allows to revert back easily to the Intel configuration. I've released it publicly a few days ago, you can check it out on my GitHub profile.
So out of curiosity I ran the apitrace on my old laptop with a Kepler card (GT650M), and I was able to reproduce your issue.

I tried method you recommended for using nvidia. Got the same black screen.
Looks like nvidia driver is at fault or something.
Tried with nvidia 410.66, 410.78, 415.18 and 396.54.09. Same problem.
Btw, it works in win10 if that helps in any way.
Can reproduce this on my GTX 670, seems to be specific to older Nvidia architectures.
@pdaniell-nv It looks like there's a driver bug related to clearing individual slices of a 3D texture. Here's what happens:
VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BITThe clear operation seems to clear all slices, so only the very last slice of the image contains meaningful data. This happens when beginning a render pass instance with VK_LOAD_OP_CLEAR, but also when using vkCmdClearAttachment. When commenting out the clear op, it renders correctly.
I can't provide a useful renderdoc capture since the game only renders to that image once during initialization, but replaying the apitrace linked in the original bug report will reproduce the problem.
If one wants at least try the game, nvidia legacy driver 390.87 must be used.
Btw, there are some flickering shadows.
proton 3.7x1 2018-11
Software information
Farming Simulator 19
System information
Apitrace file(s)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s9nd7Ls5-t7BQo1Uj70i-aGX3HDTFNSd
(7z arhive)
Log files
d3d11.log:
FarmingSimulator2019Game_d3d11.log
dxgi.log:
FarmingSimulator2019Game_dxgi.log
Screenshot


I am using arch linux. Tried with dxvk-bin and dxvk-git packages from aur. Tried wine versions 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.20 staging, proton 3.7 and 3.16. It works with intel integrated graphics (HD 530).
Computer uses nvidia optimus. I am using nvidia-xrun to load nvidia drivers.