Bug #7638

Mid-Match crashes or match loading freezes on Epic Games Store and Steam

Status:	Open
Priority:	Critical
Added by:	Anonymous on October 6, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	10.2.0 Release
Actual Result:	Crash/Freeze
Expected Result:	Crash/Freeze
Severity:	Blocker
Reproducibility:	Always
Platform:	Epic
Additional Notes & Comments:	Gentoo 7.2.9 (6.18.50 last month); Mesa 26.1.8; various Proton versions; dxvk 3.0.2/vkd3d-proton 3.0.1

Steps to Reproduce

1. Launch the game
2. Queue up
3. Freeze during loading screen or
4. Crash during the match

Explanation

Game still crashes mid-match on Epic and Steam. This is the same pattern I have been seeing for the last month. I expected this to be fixed judging by your latest update notes, but I was wrong. I have also seen multpile posts about on social media.
I simply cannot play the game and am sorry for my teammates.

It will either freeze during match loading, or will crash during the match. No fixed time, could be 1 min in, could be at the exit gates.

When it freezes during match loading, pinned cpu cores will go to 100% indefinitely.

p.s. The possibility that this is purely a Linux issue is nonexistent.

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