2y ago

Proton 8 and up not working with Nvidia?

Hello! I've tried a bunch of games but they're just not able to start on proton/wine/GE proton version 8 and up. If I switch back to proton 7 they're working fine. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a solution. Also softwares that don't require GPU work fine too with version 8.

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I'm using GE-Proton8-19, Vulkan 1.3.264 and Nvidia 535.113, and everything's working perfectly fine. Manjaro btw.
- How do I check for/install the latest vulkan drivers in kde Neon?
  
  vulkaninfo --summary
There have been a few nvidia specific bugs recently I stumbled upon. One was that dx setup just hangs if I install new games with proton 8. Solved by just killing the process during install. The other one was that all games became extremly laggy, like 1fps on X11. That can be worked around by using wayland, which brings new bugs to the table. Oh the joy of nvidia drivers
- I'm seriously considering going AMD for my GPU. I will sorely miss DLSS and good raytracing performance, but Nvidia driver support on Linux (and honestly even on Windows sometimes) is just terrible.
  
  Same. Only reason I'm still on nvidia is because I need hardware raytracing support for blender, and they haven't ported that to Linux for AMD yet.
  
  Same here. I wish I had bought an AMD GPU. Dealing with nvidia drivers is the only issues I have nowadays with linux
- Can't tell you how much fun it is to troubleshoot problems all day /s.
What version of the Nvidia driver are you running?
- 531.113.1 same in flatpak.
  
  Yeah, that's only a month old, I was definitely running proton 8 on drivers older than that. I'm installing via manjaro's stuff though. Maybe clear your shader caches?
Proton 8 requires vulkan 1.3 compatibility. I'm guessing the drivers you're using (or maybe the drivers nvidia has published?) don't have support for it.
- In the proton logs it says "info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported". Does this seem like a problem?
- I'm using it inside bottles in a flatpak shouldn't it be setup automatically? Thought it's not working natively either. How do I check for the vulkan version?
  
  Run this command to see what version of the vulkan API you're on: vulkaninfo | head -n 5
- The MX 130 does have Vulkan 1.3 support according to the specs. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-mx130.c3043
I've been having the same issue on Pop!_OS.
- What GPU you got. Maybe it's an old GPU thing?
  
  Idk if you ever solved this but after switching back to Wayland I am able to launch games with Proton 8.
  
  I have a 3050, driver version 535.113.01.
yep, I am distrohopping a lot of distros and nvidia support on Linux is very awful and sadly I have to revert to Windows atm. if I I buy AMD hardware I might try to switch
- Nvidia is very much anti-Linux and anti-user.
  They're more focused on the server market these days, which makes their Anti-Linux sentiment hillarious.
  
  yeah. in contrast. NVIDIA support for Windows is excellent. But, AMD for Windows is bad (we must stick to modified driver or driver from PC vendor)

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