The Blood of Dawnwalker (3751260)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Blood of Dawnwalker
• Steam AppID of the game: 3751260

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
• Video driver version: NVIDIA 610.57.04
• Kernel version: 7.2.2-arch1-1
• Link to full system information report as Gist
• Proton version: Proton Experimental (experimental-11.0-20260826)

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

The game experiences brief but severe recurring freezes during gameplay and
in-game cinematics. Each freeze lasts less than half a second and occurs every
few seconds, making normal movement and combat difficult and the game
effectively unplayable.

The issue also occurs with the latest official Proton Experimental build.
Custom Proton builds were tested as well and exhibited the same behavior.

Reproduction

1. Select Proton Experimental in the game's Steam compatibility settings.
2. Set the launch options to PROTON_LOG=1 %command%.
3. Launch the game.
4. Start or load a game.
5. Play normally or watch an in-game cinematic.
6. Observe brief freezes recurring every few seconds.

Start by reproducing the freezes with Proton Experimental using PROTON_LOG=1 %command%, then inspect the generated Proton log alongside the linked system information report. No source file or test is named; done would require identifying the cause of the recurring freezes and confirming normal gameplay and cinematics after the fix.