Steam/vulkan-intel 21.1.0-1 questions

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Ok I’m going to install Steam to play Hearts of Iron, my question is will vulkan-intel 21.1.0-1 give me better acceleration for games? I’m just using default kernel driver, i uninstalled xf86-video-intel. Everything is running smoothly, but I’m well aware that game require more juice lol. Thanks!

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vulkan-intel/

I’m using a Intel i7-10700 with the Intel UHD 630

Edit:Steam requires vulkan-driver. :thinking:

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I think you wouldn’t be very successful playing the game without it. When you aren’t playing the game it isn’t being used.

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I’m going to install it and see what happens.

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I wonder if you need anything else to go along with it? There are other vulkan packages such as vulkan-tools. I’m not a gamer so probably @keybreak could give you some more advice. Or someone else?

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I have no direct experience with Intel, however as always we can go to Requirements section, and see Intel part :upside_down_face:

Don’t forget to install other stuff, like Vulkan itself.

Other than that, you should be fine as long as dxvk works, and by default it should be

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So i need http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listdevices.php?platform=linux

This is my CPU https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i7-10700-core-i7-10th-gen/p/N82E16819118126?Description=Intel%20Core%20i7-10700&cm_re=Intel_Core%20i7-10700--19-118-126--Product&quicklink=true

So I’m assuming that its " Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)" in that list?
So i need 1. vulkan-intel 21.1.0-1
2. lib32-vulkan-intel
That look right?

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3. Install Vulkan

vulkan-icd-loader
lib32-vulkan-icd-loader

4. Install Vulkan driver for your GPU driver

vulkan-intel
lib32-vulkan-intel

Yes, no worries all modern hardware supports it, it’s mainly for an old ones :slight_smile:

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Aah I thought i didn’t need

  1. Install Vulkan
    vulkan-icd-loader
    lib32-vulkan-icd-loader

Because there was no -intel after it lol. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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vulkan-icd-loader - To my surprise was already installed :thinking:

sudo pacman -S lib32-vulkan-icd-loader - I get error: target not found: lib32-vulkan-icd-loader

sudo pacman -S lib32-vulkan-intel - error: target not found: lib32-vulkan-intel
“There is a lib32-vulkan-intel-noglvnd 18.3.2-1 in the AUR though”

Everything else went fine though.

:thinking: :thinking:

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:thinking: :thinking:
It is weird, i have those in repos

Do you have multilib enabled?

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multilib um… probably not…

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/etc/pacman.conf

Should be uncommented here, then sudo pacman -Syyuu

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AAAAAAH, thats much better. :rofl: :rofl:

Now to reboot.

Everything seems ok on reboot, now ot mess with Steam later today. Thanks @keybreak

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