007 First Light (3768760)

[ben-mcginty]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: 007 First Light
• Steam AppID of the game: 3768760

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5080
• Video driver version: NVIDIA 595.71.05
• Kernel version: \7.0.9-205.fc44.x86_64
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/ben-mcginty/834da7de13064d17c99b882466db529d
• Proton version: Default, Experimental, GE-Proton10-34

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.

steam-3768760.tar.gz

Symptoms

Video freezes about 10-15 seconds into the opening cutscene. Audio and controller vibration continues to function but the game has to be killed.

Reproduction

Start the game, load into the game and watch the opening cutscene.

[johndoe432]

Hey!

Can confirm the same issue.

I am using RTX 3070, driver ver. 595.71.05.
CachyOS Kernel 7.0.10-1-cachyos

[zsdev-szymon]

It might be an NVIDIA issue. I played about an hour without any issues on AMD Radeon 6750XT, Kubuntu 26.04.

[esullivan-nvidia]

Thanks for the reports everyone! I have created bug 6225934 for tracking this issue within NVIDIA.

[bugg1]

Running flawlessly for me on Proton Experimental (bleeding edge as of May 26th 3pm pacific - sorry, unsure where to get the specific version information - the python file lists 'CURRENT_PREFIX_VERSION="11.0-100"')
5090 on 595.71.05
7.0.10-1-cachyos
KDE + Wayland

[painwithchocolate]

for me it was possible to bypass the issue by turning on DLSS framegen and performance mode

4060 Ti on 595.71.05
Fedora 44 KDE (Wayland)

[ben-mcginty]

Running flawlessly for me on Proton Experimental (bleeding edge as of May 26th 3pm pacific - sorry, unsure where to get the specific version information - the python file lists 'CURRENT_PREFIX_VERSION="11.0-100"')
5090 on 595.71.05
7.0.10-1-cachyos
KDE + Wayland

I tried this too but am still having the issue.

[ben-mcginty]

Gameplay seems fine, but cutscenes are a bit hit-or-miss. Turning DLSS on to the Dynamic setting let me past the opening cutscene but would freeze on later ones. Running the bleeding-edge Proton Experimental.

steam-3768760.tar.gz

[graphitemaster]

Having three distinct issues:

1. Cut scenes sometimes just render black and all you have is audio until the cut scene is over.
2. Reloading from checkpoint (or restarting after a failed mission) causes a black screen with just audio that locks up the desktop for a couple minutes before the game shows a frame other than black. Sometimes I have to alt-tab a few times to get the game to enter it's menu and that brings back a visual.
3. Each time I launch the game it has to pre-load shaders all over again.

I can see both (1) and (2) being mistaken for freezes, the truth is if you wait them out (sometimes like 3+ minutes) the game does resume.

There's also this in dmesg

[1897022.986665] umip: 007FirstLight.e[935164] ip:149538554 sp:10b8f8: SGDT instruction cannot be used by applications.
[1897022.986670] umip: 007FirstLight.e[935164] ip:149538554 sp:10b8f8: For now, expensive software emulation returns the result.
[1897022.987436] umip: 007FirstLight.e[935164] ip:149538554 sp:10b8f8: SGDT instruction cannot be used by applications.
[1897606.975056] umip_printk: 201 callbacks suppressed

Running on Proton Experimental
RTX 4090
NVIDIA 595.71.05
ArchLinux 7.0.3-arch1-2

EDIT: Looks like DLSS + FrameGen is what is causing both (1) and (2).

[ben-mcginty]

The drivers haven't hit the Fedora repos yet, but I am curious if anyone has had any success with the new 610 driver series that came into the new feature branch yesterday.

[ben-mcginty]

It isn't just in cutscenes unfortunately. Sometimes it just happens anyway for some reason after loading a save.

steam-3768760.tar.gz