Witchfire VKD3D/DXVK

[u/BAZAndreas]

Howdy

Does anyone plays Witchfire here on the new kernels ?

Under VKD3D VRAM fills slow/releases on loading but on a second run/map it never drops back it just fills and fills until it bugs out fully and GPU usage will be constant 99% FPS 1...and nothing helps at all beside if i am lucky only to pause it for 10min then drops back down to 5G VRAM but this is a small chance.

Will attach some images as well it does not matter much but its there just to say DXVK performs smoother but less performance overall compared to VKD3D but this is just to show what happens under that specific run nothing more.

Now tested DXVK on it and VRAM is always filled at max almost never drops either not even on loading but performances suffer a bit compared to VKD3D but never causes an issue at all and the game will remain playable on long runs without hitching much or even dropping in to 1FPS areas.

Compared to the old kernel 6.19 RAM usage was higher with some extra swap usage while VRAM also was the same pretty much but the outcome was smoother overall.

Under VKD3D Kernel 7+ unsure which or when this started as prior to Aug last i did play had no such issue beside the usual unoptimized game as it is by it self is known to be not optimized at all much.

And logs show this now days that i found funny while under the LTS kernel does not.
Tested GE 10-34/26 since that was the last and tested stable for me working good with some issues on top but still instead of blaming the 11.7 which has more issues now days.
But this is not the case they both behave the same under Kernel 7+.
Its Cachy Kernel by the way both.

Was thinking to report it on VKD3D but when tested the LTS kernel did not trigger the issue...
And so i did say its GE Proton broke something again as usual...but neither that was (Beside the Dishonored bug keyboard not working under 11.x) sure this i ruled out that is neither one to blame but the Kernel rather something changed how it handles VRAM usage or overall Memory usage.

The only way is kinda chat here and get some ideas maybe you all have something to share to.

Oct 12 15:45:18 Anarchy-x8664 kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: 000000006fb89119 pin failed

Oct 12 15:45:18 Anarchy-x8664 kernel: [drm:amdgpu_dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to pin framebuffer with error -12

Oct 12 15:45:18 Anarchy-x8664 kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: 00000000f7feb49e pin failed

Oct 12 15:45:18 Anarchy-x8664 kernel: [drm:amdgpu_dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to pin framebuffer with error -12

Oct 12 15:45:20 Anarchy-x8664 kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: 000000006fb89119 pin failed

Oct 12 15:45:20 Anarchy-x8664 kernel: [drm:amdgpu_dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to pin framebuffer with error -12