Hello all, yesterday I made the switch to EndeavourOS from Manjaro. I managed to set up everything, however I am encountering one issue.
I played War Thunder regularly, and without issues for the most part, on Manjaro. On low graphics I could manage around 60 fps, depending on what’s on the screen ofc. I installed the game through Steam (same as before), but when I start it up i get a fatal error “vulkan: Out of memory. Try lowering graphics settings and/or closing other memory consuming applications”.
I tried lowering to minimal graphics but encounter the same issue. My other games I play (Don’t Starve and DST) are less taxing in the graphics department and run fine.
I didn’t change the hardware, only the OS. Does anyone know what could be the cause?
If I remember correctly, I think Manjaro uses some custom kernel similar to Zen. Try installing the Zen kernel (sudo pacman -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers) and boot with it to see if anything changes. Maybe it will work.
It’s a long shot, but I don’t play these games or use Manjaro, so I have no other ideas, perhaps someone has something else to share.
Another user experienced the same issue with similar circumstances (WT crashed after switching to Arch).
The response from the developer:
Hello, this is a known issue that currently WT has issues with hitting the VRAM limit and crashing, Do you have a option in your UEFI/BIOS to change the amount of RAM that is allocated to the iGPU? “Shared memory” or something like that. If so you could see if it is possible to increase that or set it to “Auto”. That might help.