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DOOM 2016 high cpu in the menu (379720)
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Description
Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: DOOM 2016
- Steam AppID of the game: 379720
System Information
- GPU: RX 580
- Driver/LLVM version: 19.1.2-0
dpadoka0 - Kernel version: Linux master 5.0.0-21-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP
- Link to full system information report as Gist
- Proton version: 4.11-2 (also tried the default)
Symptoms
CPU usage is huge in the menu (without enter any game), i have tried to disable chroma but no improvement. This increase the load of the system in general and can't play if i open other software (es. youtube music etc)

PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
25651 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 S 248. 3.5 18:16.10 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25688 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 R 98.9 3.5 7:07.82 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25662 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 R 98.2 3.5 6:37.98 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
26315 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 S 11.2 3.5 0:43.77 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25579 user 20 0 51600 12708 2116 S 9.9 0.0 0:41.85 /home/user/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton 3.16/dist/bin/wineserver
3636 user 20 0 966M 86300 52448 S 9.9 0.3 0:54.54 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
25714 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 S 5.9 3.5 0:24.47 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25715 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 S 5.9 3.5 0:24.27 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25673 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 R 5.3 3.5 0:29.62 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25676 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 R 5.3 3.5 0:38.38 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
18670 user 20 0 646M 155M 81316 S 5.3 0.5 0:20.60 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1764752185959596575,272575417709968375,131072 --lang=en-US --disable-client-side-phis
25674 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 S 4.6 3.5 0:29.07 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25677 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 R 4.6 3.5 0:29.83 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
25675 user 20 0 5243M 1140M 95456 R 4.0 3.5 0:29.29 Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64vk.exe Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\DOOM\DOOMx64.exe +r_renderAPI -2
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No repository files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing DOOM 2016's menu behavior with Proton 4.11-2 on the reported Linux configuration, then investigate the compatibility layer involved; done means the menu no longer causes the reported excessive CPU usage.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- game-dev, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100