There is a problem with GTX 1xxx cards (1660Ti in my case) running Proton 8+ for quite some time due to Nvidia driver, they’re unusable. Because of this even Experimental and GE branches are useless for me.

To be fair, Proton 7 is mostly enough. However, I cannot play one of my games after its update and it’s working fine with Proton 8 according to other people.

So, is there a workaround for this or I should wait for Nvidia’s Vulkan updates?

  • muhybOPEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Thank you for the reply!

    The problem is, when I try to run anything with Proton 8+, it immediately bottlenecks the GPU and everything kinda freezes because of it. Trying to change workspace and closing the game takes time, but at least it’s not impossible.

    By the way, Proton 8 was fine until driver version 535 (or 530, memories getting fuzzy).

    It’s independent from distro, DE or WM, and happens with every game. However, I’m on EndeavourOS, using bspwm, the game I currently try is 100% Orange Juice (it works fine, it just cannot connect to Steam after some update and apparently it works fine with Proton 8), and my driver revision is 550.67 but it’s been like this for some time.

    Also tried LMDE with Cinnamon so it’s definitely Nvidia. Someone said NVK doesn’t have problems like that but I don’t want go that route yet because I can play almost everything with Proton 7.