The Witcher 2; Windows11; Won't start
dxvkclosed
windowsamd proprietary
warn: DXVK: No adapters found. Please check your device filter settings
warn: and Vulkan drivers. A Vulkan 1.3 capable setup is required.
Your graphics driver does not support Vulkan 1.3. DXVK requires Vulkan 1.3.
I know for a fact that Witcher 2 works with DXVK, I was running it a few hours ago.
Support for the VK_KHR_maintenance5 extension is specifically the problem here. The Vulkan 1.3 message is a bit misleading now I guess since more than just 1.3 is required.
You'll have to use 2.6.2 as the latest release
my graphics driver supports Vulkan 1.3
Everything is working with version 2.6.2, thank you.
my graphics driver supports Vulkan 1.3
Yeah, like Blisto said, the issue is that it doesn't support a specific newer Vulkan extension.
DLLs
vulkan-1.dllx1 2026-01
Windows 11; The Witcher 2; The graphics quality is ultra; I don't use mods.
In steam, when I press the "play" button, the game closes immediately, the same was the case in the first part.
System information
info: Game: witcher2.EXE
info: DXVK: v2.7.1
info: Build: x86 gcc 15.1.0
info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in vulkan-1.dll @ 0x6dea16b0
info: Extension providers:
info: Platform WSI
info: OpenVR
info: OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2
info: OpenVR: Failed to locate module
info: OpenXR
info: Enabled instance extensions:
info: VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2
info: VK_KHR_surface
info: VK_KHR_win32_surface
info: Found device: Radeon RX 580 Series (AMD proprietary driver 2.0.279)
info: Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)
warn: DXVK: No adapters found. Please check your device filter settings
warn: and Vulkan drivers. A Vulkan 1.3 capable setup is required.