Steam Play and Vulkan do not work

Lamanator · 2021-12-26 17:45:47

I launch games on Steam Play using the Proton Experimental branch on the Steam client and everything used to work perfectly. I stopped gaming on Arch for a month and when I came back, games that use Vulkan (Witcher 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance) will either freeze at startup or will launch but no window will be created.

Using the command "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" in the game's parameter, I could run these games, but their performance are very poor. Games that do not use Vulkan (Bannerlord) will run without any issues.

I followed everything on the Vulkan article on Arch Wiki to no success. Of notice is when running vulkaninfo, the output would freeze and not produce a complete output. It would freeze after line 121: https://pastebin.com/30dg20kK and I have to press Ctrl+C to stop it. The same occurs with vulkaninfo --summary: https://pastebin.com/5nv6U9WZ.

Other useful information:
- Packages installed: nvidia, nvidia-utils, lib32-nvidiau-utils, nvidia-dkms, vulkan-icd-loader, lib32-vulkan-icd-loader, vulkan-tools, vulkan-headers
- No other intel or AMD packages are installed.
- Packages are updated to the latest versions.
- Only one GPU (NVIDIA) running on driver version 495.46
- /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/ only contains one file, nvidia_icd.json
- I only have one drive and the root partition is ext4, not ntfs.
- glxinfo -B output: https://pastebin.com/uxHtXV8u
- pacman -Qs xf86 output: https://pastebin.com/UkjBPm0t
- Proton Log for The Witcher 3: https://pastebin.com/ZLZBAKWk

Last edited by Lamanator (2021-12-26 17:48:09)

seth · 2021-12-26 20:41:11

If you roll back to nvidia 495.44 and a matching kernel or use a 495.44 dkms package, does the problem remain?
There're plenty of issue reports for 495.46 - usually the X11 server crashes (seems glx related)
The release seems to be some hotfix, it would not suprise me if it had introduced this problem as well…

Lamanator · 2022-01-15 20:59:14

Seems like you're right. I moved to nvidia-beta and associated packages and everything's back to normal. Could we close this thread?

seth · 2022-01-15 21:01:39

You can

Mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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#1 2021-12-26 17:45:47

Steam Play and Vulkan do not work

#2 2021-12-26 20:41:11

Re: Steam Play and Vulkan do not work

#3 2022-01-15 20:59:14

Re: Steam Play and Vulkan do not work

#4 2022-01-15 21:01:39

Re: Steam Play and Vulkan do not work

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