Dragon Age™: The Veilguard (1845910)

[Kenyon-J]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: DragonAge: Veilguard
• Steam AppID of the game: 1845910

System Information

• GPU: AMD RX 6700 XT
• Video driver version: fedora-amdgpu
• Kernel version: Linux 6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Kenyon-J/cb64ba443888862f2863df6f2cb843eb
• Proton version: Experimental & 9.0-3

I confirm:

• [ X] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [ X] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-1845910.log

Symptoms

"strand hair" toggle on causing game crashes. This may either be a proton or AMD issue - I am not sure and don't have the facilities to test on an intel/nvidia device. I've found numerous reports on internet forums of people discussing this issue but have not seen a ticket raised regarding this just yet- here is one such thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ghmp3x/dragon_age_veilguard_freezing_and_crashing/

some users also suggest it may be Raytracing implementation as well.

Reproduction

Launch game and play with High settings + strand hair enabled. Crashing typically happens between 30m-2Hr gameplay marks.

[cpuccino]

Lighting set to anything but low (the lowest you can go), adds lots of flashing light artifacts everywhere - neve's forehead, harding's face etc

Also stutters really bad after a couple minutes to an hour of playthrough

4090k, driver 560.35.03, 13900kf - ubuntu 24.10 - wayland - im running proton experimental (for frame gen - even with that, it stutters quite bad (shaders probably as my cpu spikes))