Nova Drift (858210)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues:Nova Drift
• Steam AppID of the game:858210

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 525.60.11
• Kernel version: 6.0.11-arch1-1
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/kazetsukaimiko/8a0fe22c6b6cb3c99449fc048adb2309
• Proton version: 7.0.4, Experimental

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

Upon launch of the application, an error occurs. The game does not play.

I have also tested this on:

• Steam Deck (game launches and works as expected)
• GPD Win Max 2020 (AMD 4800U, same Arch Linux stack, game launches and works as expected)

The problem occurs on my MSI Laptop with the RTX 3080.

• When running the laptop with the NVIDIA card as primary, this issue occurs.
• When running the laptop with the Intel card as primary, rendering on the Intel GPU, the game runs as expected.
• When running the laptop with the Intel card as primary, rendering on the NVIDIA GPU, this issue occurs.

This behavior happens whether I run Wayland, or X11. I normally run X11.

How I normally run the RTX 3080 card as primary

Kernel Boot Options

nvidia_drm.modeset=1

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "intel"
    MatchDriver "i915"
    Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    Option "Interactive" "0"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

...
MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
...

It therefore seems like this is an NVIDIA related bug, perhaps specifically around Optimus/multi-card environments, although I cannot confirm this.

X11 + RTX 3080 as primary seems to be the only way currently to run this laptop with HDMI output, thus the above configuration. However notably, even on vanilla configuration (X11 + Intel Primary using the built in screen), attempting to run the game on the NVIDIA card also results in the above error.

Reproduction

Launch the application on an NVIDIA / Optimus laptop using the NVIDIA GPU. Other NVIDIA environments may also be able to reproduce this, cannot confirm.

Start by reproducing the launch failure on the NVIDIA/Optimus configuration described, comparing it with Intel rendering and Steam Deck behavior. Review the linked system information gist, NVIDIA/X11 configuration, and the screenshot; enable the mentioned PROTON_LOG=1 launch option if more evidence is needed. Done means Nova Drift launches on the NVIDIA GPU.