Some sort of setup issue on your end, probably missing 32-bit Vulkan libraries or something.
The return code is for VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, but not sure how it would happen like that. I would guess that either the driver itself or the vulkan icd loader is somehow in a bad state.
reinstalled all vulkan-related libs and lib32. Continued with other related sounding libs. In the end it was lib32-nvidia-utils I had to install.
Checking the pacman logs I don't see that it was removed recently. So still no idea what went wrong. But I have the issue solved. Thanks for listening and providing ideas
Nothing extracted yet.
The game was working fine until a few weeks ago when I played last time. There have been lots of updates since then (Arch). And now the game doesn't start but instead brings up a little windows dialog window with the content "CreateDXGIFactory: Failed"
All other 15 games I have currently installed in steam or gog (heroic) do work fine.
I did roll back the nvidia driver to previous version but that resulted in same error. So I wonder what part of the graphics stack is failing here?
In the steam log I find
Software information
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Steam with Proton
EndeavourOS
System information
Apitrace file(s)
For instructions on how to use apitrace, see: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Using-Apitrace
Log files
steam-784150.log