🩹 Hotfix release
This release fixes two problems that made the game crash or run unplayably after recent updates. Both were caused by launcher defaults — not by anything in your own setup — so updating is enough to get back to a working state.
🐞 The problem
Broken Proton 11.x → crashes, 2–3 FPS, missing textures (#20)
Fresh installs and the one-click Download Proton button always pulled the latest DWProton build from upstream. That latest build is now dwproton-11.0-5 (based on wine-11), which regressed badly for Endfield:
- a fatal abort on an unimplemented Windows kernel call —
ntoskrnl.exe.PsGetProcessExitStatus, - rendering collapsing to 2–3 FPS with missing in-game textures, and
- minute-long load times starting right from the Hypergryph splash.
Sporadic in-game crashes (#21)
DXVK_ASYNC was turned on by default. It does nothing under Endfield's native Vulkan renderer and is a well-known cause of random crashes whenever DXVK is in play.
🔧 What we changed
- 📌 Pinned a known-good Proton. The launcher now installs DWProton 10.0-26 (the last stable 10.x) by default instead of blindly tracking
latest. If the pinned build ever disappears upstream, it safely falls back to the newest available one. - 🏷️ Smarter version picker. The recommended build is marked with a Recommended badge, and every 11.x build now carries a warning so you know it can break Endfield. You can still pick any version manually.
- ⚙️ DXVK_ASYNC is off by default. The native Vulkan renderer stays on; DXVK async is now opt-in for the few setups that want it.
- 🔬 Better crash reports. The diagnostics report now includes 200 lines of the launch log (up from 30), so an actual crash backtrace is captured instead of just the startup banner.
⬆️ Already updated to a broken build?
Open Settings → Proton, download/select dwproton-10.0-26 (Recommended) and relaunch. This hotfix only changes the default for fresh installs, so if you previously toggled DXVK_ASYNC on, you can switch it back off in the same screen.
📦 Install
Grab the .AppImage, .deb or .rpm from the assets below.