Please help me: On intel, vulkan game is freezing very frequently

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On i3 1005g1 single channel 8gb ram, Windows 11, I am playing Avatar 2009 game. I am using vulkan (dxvk 1.10.1) to stablize fps. I am not using higher versions of dxvk because they cause the sun to fully lose its light (glorious intel's vulkan driver bug).

On intel, vulkan games freeze randomly from anywhere 5-30 minutes, especially Ubisoft games like assassin's creed 2. Non Ubisoft games like Fallout 3 freeze very occasionally.

When I first started playing the Avatar 2009 game 3 months ago, the game froze, but maybe 3 out of 10 times. Now 3 months later, I am unable to play the game because it's freezing 8 out of 10 times. When it freezes, I have to force end it from task manager and restart the laptop. If I don't restart the laptop, it definitely freezes again on the next launch.

I know these are glorious intel's vulkan driver bugs, but please help me out, if there's any fix. I want to play the game, it's really good.

I have tried rolling back to old drivers (31.0.101.2135), but it's of no advantage. Something changed silently in the three months.

Posted Aug 4, 2026, 8:46 AM UTC

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