Bug: 1.0 experimental causes gpu page fault under proton

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• 12 Nov, '25
  vagrantprodigy

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  I'm having this issue on two systems using KDE. It crashes me all the way back to the login screen of my machine within a few minutes of loading the game. This started exactly one week ago, 11/5. I played for several hours on 11/4 without issues. One system is Ubuntu based, and the other is Debian based. Please contact me if I can help.

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• 09 Nov, '25
  lime

  After fiddling with the settings i can now confirm that it's the new water in particular that causes crashes. setting water effects to low seems to make the crash completely disappear.

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• 12 Nov, '25
  lbraun

  Experiencing similar problem, the 5 times i tried the crash was few seconds into a new game, after creating and naming the settlement. Same for established settlements.
  Unfortunately no error logs from timberborn, did not dig into the system for now, but behaviour is the same, game triggers something that makes the graphical enviroment (usign gnome desktop) go down. Didn't have to restart the machine, just logs me out->graphical env resets and system is working again

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• 14 Nov, '25
  lbraun

  Good catch @lime
  Yes can confirm, with water settings set to low, i had no crash (testet for just 10 minutes)

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• 14 Nov, '25
  vagrantprodigy

  Water graphics set to low did NOT fix the issue on either of my systems.

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• 14 Nov, '25
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  Please do share crash logs if you already haven't. Instructions can be found in the pinned topic. I confirmed with devs they are willing to look at linux issues though it's still not officially supported.

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• 14 Nov, '25
  vagrantprodigy

  I just sent my logs in.

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• 16 Nov, '25
  Chalwa bechatex

  I'm using nobara KDE. I expierienced frequent crashes on Proton GE, experimental and hotfix.
  Switching to proton 9 is disabling camera panning for middle mouse button (scroll click) and dragging areas or paths.
  Here is a topic with other people having similar problems.
  https://steamcommunity.com/app/1062090/discussions/4/664970625903846073/

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• 26 Nov, '25
  benjitheengi

  experienced a bunch of these crashes on Cachyos KDE happening almost immediately upon moving around the camera. YOU GUYS ARE LIFE SAVERS, setting water to low stopped the crashes as far as I can tell. unfortunately none of these crashes generated log files in my case. I really want to help in any way I can so if theres another way to contribute please let me know

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• 27 Nov, '25
  benjitheengi

  I wanted to update my comment by saying that the issue has returned somehow, I tried updating my whole system including drivers. (Which I shouldve done anyway woops) but im still experiencing this issue in the experimental build. I did however finally find my log files, which I will be submitting immediately, that curiously includes the following:
  ERROR: Shader Hidden/Universal Render Pipeline/DBufferClear shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)
  GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (RADV NAVI22)

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• 01 Dec, '25
  vagrantprodigy

  I had the same error in my logs @Benjitheengi, also with a 6700XT. I just upgraded to a 9070XT, and the issue appears to be gone.

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• 03 Jan
  buildthedam

  Some discussion here: https://www.protondb.com/app/1062090
  
  I was able to play for about an hour but then the game crashed so hard even REISUB didn't help. I'm on Navi 10 (RX 5700) and running proton experimental in mint.

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• 24 Jan
  Jockeril

  I had the "disabled camera panning and dragging" issue until I switched to proton-Cachy on a CachyOS KDE system (Arch based Linux):
  
  OS: CachyOS x86_64
  Kernel: Linux 6.18.2-2-cachyos
  
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K (8) @ 4.50 GHz
  GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
  
  DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4
  WM: KWin (Wayland)

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• 28 Jan
  buildthedam

  Protondb has upgraded Timberborn to platinum or 'Runs perfectly out of the box', though its not clear if the folks having a good experience are on the experimental branch or not. Seems that those folks are using proton 10.0-3 however, which seems like the best bet.

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