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Doom 2016 not opening after switching to Vulkan

protonclosed appid 379720Game compatibility
ValveSoftware/Proton#3919 · opened 2020-05-28 by KairanD · updated 2020-05-29 · 2 comments · github · game page · search this game
KKairanD 2020-05-28 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Doom (2016)
  • Steam AppID of the game: 379720

System Information

  • GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070Ti SC
  • CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.8 GHz
  • Driver/LLVM version: NVidia 440.64
  • System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Kernel version: 5.4.0-33-generic
  • Link to full system information report as Gist
  • Proton version: 5.0-7

I confirm:

  • [ ] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Log: steam-379720.log

Symptoms

I tried to change the renderer from OpenGL 4.5 to Vulkan in game options and the game doesn't even open (it tries to open and then closes very fast). If I set it to run with Open GL again using launch option "+r_renderAPI 0", it works. However, the performance with OpenGL is not great (my CPU is not exactly a powerhouse) and I need Vulkan to get stable 75 FPS using max settings at 2560x1080p.

The game is installed in an ext4 partition and Steam overlay is disabled. The command "vulkaninfo | less" works. My system, my drivers and Steam (Beta) are all updated.

Reproduction

Select Vulkan in game options and restart the game.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-05-28 github

Hello @KairanD, blind guess, but I suspect that the game is trying to run off the Intel Haswell chipset and falling over. Does setting the game's launch options to VK_ICD_FILENAMES="/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json" %command% have an effect? This should tell the vulkan-loader to only try to use the nVidia gpu.

KKairanD 2020-05-29 github

@kisak-valve Thank you SO MUCH! It worked. Now the demons can punch me at constant 75 FPS!

So, it's a specific issue with these chips? Guess I will need to use this option in any game running with Vulkan.

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