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tdtooke

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Registered: 2023-04-11

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[SOLVED] Many steam games broken with latest mesa/vulkan update

On Baldur's Gate 3 first I noticed the launcher was blank.  The usual fixes didn't work so I tried --skip-launcher and arrived at the error "Assertion failed: !status && "vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR""  I really have no idea what that even means.  I also noted Elder Scrolls Online had the same problem.  After painfully trying many things and failing I Just looked at my pacman log an undid pretty much everything it did the last update.  Mostly mesa/vulkan-ish stuff.  Now it works.  Apparently proton/steam really does not like these new updates.  Anybody that knows more than I do have any idea how I can proceed with the latest packages and have things still work?

Last edited by tdtooke (2023-12-19 03:32:01)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Many steam games broken with latest mesa/vulkan update

Are you using the proprietary nvidia driver? Likely a clash with the newly instituted NVK driver for nouveau. Force the lookup of the nvidia ICD by exporting the environment variable:

VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables

tdtooke

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Registered: 2023-04-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Many steam games broken with latest mesa/vulkan update

I am (using proprietary driver), I will give that a try and report back.  Thanks!

Edit:  It worked!!  Again, thanks!

Last edited by tdtooke (2023-12-19 03:31:15)

tamtamatar

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Registered: 2023-10-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Many steam games broken with latest mesa/vulkan update

Are you using the proprietary nvidia driver? Likely a clash with the newly instituted NVK driver for nouveau. Force the lookup of the nvidia ICD by exporting the environment variable:

VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables

Hey there,
Thanks for the workaround. Works well for games(games only detect nvidia gpu though:) )

tamtamatar

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Re: [SOLVED] Many steam games broken with latest mesa/vulkan update

Found the curlpit its "vulkan-icd-loader-1.3.273". 1.3.269 seems to be working

Last edited by tamtamatar (2023-12-19 03:35:55)

tdtooke

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Registered: 2023-04-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Many steam games broken with latest mesa/vulkan update

We have a new update to vulkan-icd-loader that works with proprietary drivers so you don't have to keep it at 1.3.269 or use VK_ICD_FILENAME.  Looks like package maintainers are on it today!  Thanks to whomever.  (Always hate using 'whom', even when it's correct it just feels wrong.)