Hi,
Newbie here… I have a radeon gpu, installed steam and it loads up. No games will start. I believe I have a video driver issue, i have followed loading the lib32-vulkan-radeon drivers, but i’m sure I have something wrong and I haven’t a clue how to even start trying to fix it. Help with walking me through my investigation and fix will be very appreciated. Thank you in advance.
-SN
It will be useful for those responding to your question what gpu you have and what you use to launch your games and the steps you took to try and launch the game(s).
Did you install proton an selected it for the game you want to play ?
Sorry - not sure if this is the data you are requesting.. but here is what I could pull.
CPU:
Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3609 min/max: 567/4955 cores: 1: 3609 2: 3609 3: 3609
4: 3609 5: 3609 6: 3609 7: 3609 8: 3609 9: 3609 10: 3609 11: 3609 12: 3609
13: 3609 14: 3609 15: 3609 16: 3609 17: 3609 18: 3609 19: 3609 20: 3609
21: 3609 22: 3609 23: 3609 24: 3609
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390]
driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting
dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon resolution: 2560x1440~144Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,radeonsi,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.7-arch1.1 renderer: HAWAII
(radeonsi ACO DRM 2.51 6.17.9-arch1-1)
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
i select Proton while trying to launch it from the Steam app.
While launching steam via terminal, i can see errors in enabling vulkan. i believe i have a video driver issue, but not sure how to correct it.
CVulkanTopology: failed to get physical device count
Failed to query vulkan gpu topology
Failed to query vulkan gpu topology
Response:
Exit code: -2
vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices failed, unable to init and enumerate GPUs with Vulkan.
BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan!
/usr/share/themes/Breeze-Dark/gtk-2.0/widgets/entry:70: error: unexpected identifier ‘direction’, expected character ‘}’
/usr/share/themes/Breeze-Dark/gtk-2.0/widgets/styles:36: error: invalid string constant “combobox_entry”, expected valid string constant
vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices failed, unable to init and enumerate GPUs with Vulkan.
BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan!
Correct me if i am wrong but i see ati driver is loaded. You probably need the amd gpu drivers
Honestly, I haven’t a clue what got loaded or not. What’s the command to download the amdgpu driver? Thx
I thought I had loaded lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver libva-utils. I can reinstall these?