Hello, The game performance is very slow. There is a topik on GitHub where you can read all NVIDIA users have low peroformance ~15-25 FPS no matter the video settings. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3654 In the mean time the game runs perfectly well on AMD and users are reporting …

Hi! I’d like to confirm all problems that people above have stated. Specs: Intel Core i5 4670k Nvidia GTX 980 Vulkan 1.2.135 8 Gb DDR3@1600 KDE Neon, kernel 4.20 The game works, but framerate is very inconsistent and the mentioned vram issue is present.

Can also confirm the issue. The framerate goes well past playable 30 FPS to 19-20 FPS on any settings possible. Arch Linux Intel Core i7 8750H Nvidia GTX 1060 Vulkan 1.2.135 Driver 440.66.03 16 Gb DDR4@2666 Awesome WM kernel 5.5.10-arch1-1

Did anyone try with driver 430.50 or lower? 430.64 got changed to use system memory in out of VMEM situations, maybe that is buggy? Needs an older kernel, though.

[image] generix: Did anyone try with driver 430.50 or lower? Just tried it. The Vulkan version is 1.1.114, which is too old and doesn’t let it launch.

Ok, so no dice. Thanks for trying.

Finaly some good news. Thank you!

I wonder if solving this might also solve the Wreckfest performance issues? Although in this case D:E uses vulkan natively while Wreckfest uses DX11.

Please do, Vulkan needs some love so that the game could run flawlessly :D

Hi aplattner, thank you so much for listening to us. I’m not sure whether it’s useful to you guys, but someone found out that the nVidia Linux drivers don’t seem to utilize VRAM correctly while playing the game, so everything goes to system RAM, instead: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issue…

Low performance in DOOM Eternal

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aplattner March 26, 2020, 6:39pm 16

We’re looking into it.

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