I remember having some issue like that, but I’m not sure if this was the fix.

Try unchecking “Show desktop notifications when the song changes” on Spotify’s settings (right now it’s under the Display section).

May be a coincidence, but it stopped launching for me too. Worked Monday and Tuesday, yesterday I didn’t try to play, today it didn’t work.

Tried:

• running “verify integrity of game files”
• forcing Proton,
• clearing shader cache
• attempted various launch options, like vulkan, fullscreen, and windowed
• update all flatpaks (since I installed steam through flatpak)
• reboot

I’m running a 6700XT and weirdly enough it pre-compiled in Linux but not in Windows.

It’s really stuttery for a while in Windows, with low GPU usage and erratic frequency, until it normalizes.

I’m getting none of that in Linux, smooth from the start in-game. Only getting some weird fps fluctuation in the start menu.

I don’t know if we’re discussing semantics. A performance score is attributed, and before the fix their scores were all 166. It doesn’t work, as you said. So the consequence is the preferred core being “random”, isn’t it?

Apparently there’s a bug in an AMD’s driver. It was supposed to assign processes based on each core’s self reported performance, but because of the bug it was random.

This “self reported performance” is based on evaluation done to the cores in the fab process, by AMD. Meaning, due to imperfections some cores are a bit better than others.