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reheheheheheheh-ee

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Registered: 2025-01-14

Posts: 2

I am trying to play games that need vulkan support and it wont work.

I am trying to play a game on steam and I've tried many things to get it to work like setting custom launch options on steam and more and I still haven't gotten it to work. I use hyprland as my window manager. I have an iMac 2010, 21.5 inch.

This is the output of lspci -k | grep -A 3 -E "(VGA|3D)"

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV730/M96-XT [Mobility Radeon HD 4670]
    Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device 00b6
    Kernel driver in use: radeon
    Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu

If any more information is required I can provide such information, I'm decently new to arch linux.

MrCus

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Registered: 2025-01-12

Posts: 5

Re: I am trying to play games that need vulkan support and it wont work.

Unfortunately, it won't work. Your GPU (2008) predates Vulkan (2016)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,576

Re: I am trying to play games that need vulkan support and it wont work.

Close, but no cigar .

Your card uses a videochip from the r600 familiy. The usual vulkan drivers for amd cards (radv, amdvlk etc) don't support that family .

I do think there is an experimental vulkan driver in mesa that targets the r600. No idea how well it works and you would have to build your own mesa version.

Not all steam games require vulkan and steam tends to work better on X.

Which game are you trying to play ?

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reheheheheheheh-ee

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Registered: 2025-01-14

Posts: 2

Re: I am trying to play games that need vulkan support and it wont work.

I'm trying to play Splitgate.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,576

Re: I am trying to play games that need vulkan support and it wont work.

https://splitgate.fandom.com/wiki/System_requirements mentions needing atleast a gefore GTX 660 which is much newer then your card.

Please Install vulkan-swrast . It will provide vulkan support in software ran by the cpu .
Perfomance will be poor but it will help to determine if the issue is with  vulkan or something else.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky