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Afonso Morais

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Registered: 2024-03-31

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[SOLVED] Steam is unable to initialize Vulkan.

So when I try to run steam through the terminal I get this error message:

vkCreateInstance failed with error -9
BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan!

What can I do to fix this I think I have all the Vulkan stuff installed (I have AMD GPU) here is '-Qs vulkan' output:

local/lib32-amdvlk 2024.Q1.3-1
    AMD's standalone Vulkan driver
local/lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.279-1
    Vulkan Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader (32-bit)
local/qt6-shadertools 6.6.2-1 (qt6)
    Provides functionality for the shader pipeline that allows Qt Quick to operate on Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D, in addition to OpenGL
local/spirv-tools 2023.6-1 (vulkan-devel)
    API and commands for processing SPIR-V modules
local/vulkan-headers 1:1.3.279-1 (vulkan-devel)
    Vulkan header files
local/vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.279-1
    Vulkan Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader
local/vulkan-mesa-layers 1:24.0.3-2
    Mesa's Vulkan layers
local/vulkan-radeon 1:24.0.3-2
    Open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs
local/vulkan-tools 1.3.269-1 (vulkan-devel)
    Vulkan Utilities and Tools
local/vulkan-validation-layers 1.3.275-1 (vulkan-devel)
    Vulkan Validation Layers

Am I missing anything? Or is it an unrelated issue?

Last edited by Afonso Morais (2024-03-31 15:17:15)

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam is unable to initialize Vulkan.

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags for such output, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Try removing lib32-amdvlk and installing lib32-vulkan-radeon as well as  lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers and      lib32-vulkan-validation-layers .

If that doesn't help, post the output of vulkaninfo --summary

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam is unable to initialize Vulkan.

Which graphics card?

Afonso Morais

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Registered: 2024-03-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam is unable to initialize Vulkan.

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags for such output, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Try removing lib32-amdvlk and installing lib32-vulkan-radeon as well as  lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers and      lib32-vulkan-validation-layers .

If that doesn't help, post the output of vulkaninfo --summary

Can't really remove lib32-amdvlk appears to be a steam dependency, but installing lib32-vulkan-radeon, lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers and lib32-vulkan-validation-layers fixed it thank you.

PS:
Sorry forgot to add the "code" tag thanks for reminding!

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Afonso Morais

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Registered: 2024-03-31

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Steam is unable to initialize Vulkan.

Which graphics card?

It's already fixed but for context is an AMD Radeon RX 580.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam is unable to initialize Vulkan.

Can't really remove lib32-amdvlk appears to be a steam dependency

steam requires lib32-vulkan-driver and at that time lib32-amdvlk was the only one that provides that present on your system.
lib32-vulkan-radeon also provides that, so you can remove lib32-amdvlk now.

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