Cyberpunk 2077 (1091500)

[julienbenjamin]

NOTE FROM PROTON TEAM: The game will not currently run stably on NVIDIA, we don't advise to attempt to run it; if you do, please do NOT report additional issues about this known problem. Please see this comment for more details about current status and known issues.

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Cyberpunk 2077
• Steam AppID of the game: 1091500

System Information

• GPU: RTX 2070 Super
• Driver/LLVM version: 450.80.02
• Kernel version: 5.9.0-4-amd64
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: Proton 5.13-4

I confirm:

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

Symptoms

Avatar's face does not render.

Reproduction

1. Click on "Play" on the Steam client
2. Run the game via the CDPR launcher without account
3. Start a new game
4. When avatar is displayed, his/her face is not rendered. Same in-game.

steam-1091500.log

Screenshots

[Niedzwiedzw]

just tried running on manjaro linux + proton 5.0, my gfx card is 1080 (not TI)
the game does not run, it's just a black box
gonna try on proton 5.13 now

[kisak-valve]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog#513-4 notes that the game currently needs Proton 5.13-4 or newer and mesa git. That implies that Proton builds older than today will not work and there's more issues to be worked out between the game, vkd3d-proton, and the nVidia proprietary driver. Proton Experimental is recommended, as it contains performance improvements and bug fixes for this game.

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From @Plagman posted at #4450 (comment):

There's a couple of known sound issues by now:

    No enemy gunshot sounds
    No car radio
    No background NPC dialogue

Audio fix available for testing in Proton e‍xperimental-5.13-shmem-20201214.

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Proton Experimental experimental-5.13-20201218c known audio quirks:

• Low volume from some audio sources like TVs.
• Audio crackling that can be manipulated with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC, possibly due to pulseaudio's server being overloaded from mixing 14 audio channels. Configuring pulseaudio to use resample-method = speex-float-1 may speed up the server.
• Spacial sound effects may be missing. Cyberpunk 2077 (1091500) #4450 (comment)
• Can not hear the dialog of some background NPCs. Cyberpunk 2077 (1091500) #4450 (comment)

Audio fix available for testing in Proton e‍xperimental-5.13-20210115. #4450 (comment)

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NVIDIA proprietary drivers older than 455.xx will have graphics artifacts and all current NVIDIA drivers are generally expected to crash and freeze. The game will not currently run stably on NVIDIA, we don't advise to attempt to run it, and if you do please do not report additional issues about this known problem.

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Some distros allow you to multi-slot a point release of mesa and mesa git. In that situation, the game can pick up the older version of mesa/radv and have a hard time. Also, AMDVLK (v-2020.Q4.5) and AMDGPU-PRO (20.45) is not expected to work with the game right now. Having them installed might cause the game to fail to start.

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Updating mesa is not needed or beneficial if you use the nVidia proprietary driver. They are completely unrelated driver stacks.

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The game might crash on pre-AVX CPUs. Triaged by game update 1.05.

[Niedzwiedzw]

after clicking "sign up" the console shows
2020-12-10 01:38:47.575 [Information][ (0)] [TID 768][red-launcher]: Skipping sending event 'view_focused' because it's disabled (view 'login').
and this happens

not sure if it's linux specific

[Niedzwiedzw]

I managed to succesfully go into the main menu on Proton 5.13.4, redownloading the game now to play in Polish :D

[G-Alevizos]

Any luck with changing the PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU env variable?

[ruslang02]

Radeon RX 5600XT, Proton 5.13-4, Manjaro, linux 5.9.12

On 5.21-GE the game has artifacts.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @ruslang02, what version of mesa are you using? Anything older than mesa git from a couple days ago is older than should be used with this game.

[fatino]

With mesa-git 21.0(compiled 1 hour ago) proton 5.13-4 and rx 470:

• after mesa-git steam shows only black pages
• I'm able to start Cyberpunk 2077 launcher through taskbar.
• game starts, shows CD PROJECT RED logo, music plays, then black screens and then it crashes my GPU drivers, because all screens show wierd rainbow lines.
  Log from steam-native(arch linux):
  cyberpunk_2077.log
  Doesn't really look like much, seems like mesa bug.

EDIT: Normal mesa from repo 20.3.4 does exactly the same. At least steam works properly.

[alex9k1]

Just tried the game for a few minutes. Seems to work fine on Arch + Radeon VII. Had to install mesa-git and vulkan-radeon-git. Before that, ingame screen and characters in character creation were all completely black.

Performance could be better tho, but still able to play with 60FPS.

[ben-romer]

I was able to play through for 30 minutes or so, on 5.13-4 Proton, Nvidia driver 455.45.01, Ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.4.0-56-generic. I had to drop the settings to low to get a reasonable framerate, but I'm also on a GTX980M so that's not really surprising.

If you're on NVidia and getting a black screen, try dropping the settings some.

[Trezamere]

I was also able to play briefly before I needed to step away, Fedora 33, Proton Experimental

kernel 5.9.12-200.fc33.x86
2070 super driver version: 455.45.01
mesa 20.2.3

framerate was around 30 fps but everything maxed, will report back later with more detail.

Getting crashes after about 30 minutes of play +-. Journal shows the following, someone mentioned might be related to VRAM? Will check.

kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:0a:00: GPU-9436b076-8c43-5f1e-da15-4e783ada041b
kernel: NVRM: GPU Board Serial Number: 
kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 31, pid=8003, Ch 000000be, intr 00000000. MMU Fault: ENGINE GRAPHICS GPCCLIENT_T1_0 faulted @ 0x1_91c80000. Fault is of type FAULT_PTE ACCESS_TYPE_VIRT_READ

[class101]

There I don't have the invisible skin issue, I did not find any issue beside the fact the game does not detect my low end specs and tend to choose the High graphic level, have to tune it to low or so to have a better performance.

I did not installed mesa-git, just all updated from the Arch repo

Steam Client Beta (In Steam > Settings > Account > I choose Steam Beta Update)
Proton 5.13-4

Nvidia 455.45.01-6
extra/mesa 20.3.0-3

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.9.13-arch1-1
Uptime: 1 hour, 6 mins
Packages: 1015 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.1.0
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: Cinnamon 4.8.2
WM: Mutter (Muffin)
WM Theme: Mojave-dark (Mojave-dark)
Theme: Mojave-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: McMojave-circle [GTK2/3]
Terminal: guake
CPU: Intel i7-4770K (8) @ 3.900GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Memory: 2538MiB / 15942MiB`

Screenshots

[RookySoap]

I have a GTX 970, Ubuntu 20.10, kernel 5.8.0-31-generic, nVidia driver 450.80.02, Proton 5.13-4. Game crashes on startup, after displaying the CD Projekt Red logo, and goes to a black screen