I had The Division 2 running well under Lutris with Proton 8.8 (downloaded from GloriousEggRoll). Put in many hours with this configuration and it was rock solid. Just to be clear, this is the non-Steam version of The Division 2 bought directly from Ubisoft.
Since getting RDR2 in the latest Steam sale, I haven't played Division 2 for a few weeks. During that time, the NVIDIA drivers have been updated (no idea if it's related, but I mention it as it may be relevant). I went to start The Division 2 last night, and after a 196MB update for the Ubisoft Launcher it led to a 4.9GB Division 2 update. When starting, the game is now very laggy:
- The 'Snowdrop' logo animation at the start was sometimes really slow (not always).
- The percentage circle at the start of the game, to get to the first screen and to get to play the game itself, is slow, laggy and the audio ticks don't match the tick in percentage numbers.
- When in game, the lag itself when moving around or just looking around is so bad that the game is unplayable.
I've tried different runners in Lutris with some of them not launching the game at all, but all of then have the same problems. I downloaded the latest Proton 8.10 from GloriousEggRoll as well but no change.
I also have a problem with RDR2 Online (story works absolutely fine) where it crashed every time after the first black and white photograph. I've never tried Online before this, so no idea if it ever worked. Again, this may be unrelated, but I mention it just in case.
I am running Manjaro KDE Plasma with the latest updates. Kernel is 6.1 and NVIDIA drivers are 535.54.03 for my TITAN X card. I've tried rolling back to 530.something and 525.47.27 using https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all as I saw some posts around issues with the 535 drivers. Still the same issues.
My question really is:
- Anybody had this issue? I'm sure I had issues with a previous update to The Division 2 which caused me to move from Bottles to Lutris.
- Could this be NVIDIA driver related? If so, I've not found anything that gives me a good set of instructions on how to downgrade NVIDIA drivers.
- Any other suggestions?