Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Elite: Dangerous
• Steam AppID of the game: 359320

System Information

• GPU: RTX 3080
• Video driver version: NVIDIA 545.29.6
• Kernel version: 6.6.3-1-default
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 1701933636 experimental-8.0-20231207

I confirm:

• [x] 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.

steam-359320.log

Symptoms

The game does not start and claims do have ran into an Assertion failed: !status, file ../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader.c, line 664
Looking up the specified line in winevulkan revealed it's an issue which is present on nvidia + Wayland by choosing the wrong swap chain?

663: status = UNIX_CALL(vkCreateSwapchainKHR, &params);
664: assert(!status);

Looking up this error revealed an nvidia bug report which is marked as closed and is over a year old.

I run Steam from flatpak with runtime 23.08 with the latest nvidia driver runtime which ships libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.12 according to the report this issue should be fixed with 1.1.10.

Since I have no clue about any of this I start reporting it here. If it is not an issue by Proton but something else, please let me know and I'll pass the issue to the correct people.

Reproduction

1. Install Elite: Dangerous
2. Have a nVidia GPU with the latest proprietary driver
3. Run a Wayland session
4. Launch the game

Side note: Game runs fine on Steam Deck btw. But no surprise as this seems only be an issue with nvidia + wayland.