Dxvk games freeze

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Hi I recently installed Garuda Sway and its been really cool overall but I'm having some issues when playing dxvk games, they freeze, when looking into the lutris logs I see this error "MESA-INTEL: error: ../mesa-21.2.3/src/intel/vulkan/anv_batch_chain.c:2053: execbuf2 failed: Error de entrada/salida (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST)" and recently thins one "MESA-INTEL: error: ../mesa-21.2.3/src/intel/vulkan/anv_device.c:3713: GPU hung on one of our command buffers (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST)" before installing Garuda Sway I was using Manjaro Gnome and this never happened, any idea how to fix it? From what I can see its a vulkan driver issue but I have tested vulkan-intel 21.1.2, 21.2.2 and 21.2.3 and the error persist, the only luck was with 20.2.1 that I had lying around but that has its own issues (shader flickering and volumetric effects go crazy). any idea? thanks in advice
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I’d start here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics

then move on to here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan

Also keep in mind that Lutris might also be doing things behind the scenes".

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done, it does not say anything about the error, I have been researching and I found a dxvk issue saying that is an ANV bug, I would have thought that it was already fixed given that the post was from 2018, I guess it came back. I hope mesa 21.3 fixes it.

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yep it appears to be an ANV issue, i just installed "vulkan-intel-git-1 22.0.0_devel.146254.182237e1e89-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" from chaotic aur and it did crash but the lutris log did not show the vk_lost_device error so I think the crash can be attributed to the bugginess of the driver in its devel state.

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Someone on some linux gaming forum (I read so many can’t remember where) stated that if you are a heavy linux gamer, you should stick to the “seasoned” operating systems such as Kde, Gnome, etc. I think the reason is many of the tools are built based around them, compositors, etc. Not sure if that is the issue here, but just throwing it out there.

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There’s also the potential that Sway itself is causing an issue - Manjaro GNOME is quite different to Garuda Sway, so reducing the number of variables will be useful.

Correct. The Intel page provides information about the different drivers and configuration options that are available for an Intel GPU, the Vulkan page provides information about the packages that are involved in Vulkan support. The idea was that you might spot a difference with Manjaro (e.g. does it still install the intel driver rather than modesetting?).

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They say this because DEs that use Wayland exclusively may not play nice with some compatibility tools needed for games. I've seen it mentioned on these forums even.

If you want the best game support, I highly recommend the Garuda KDE Dragonized Gaming Edition.

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could be, I read somewhere that the vk lost device error could be caused because the compositor was not keeping the frame(?) when switching workspaces causing that vulkan write in a null surface, but sway its so light! I dont want to have to go back to gnome, I have only 4gb of ram so the lighter it is the better

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sorry if I miss pronounce myself (dont know how to say it other way, english its not may language) what I mean is that I went to the pages search and didn't found anything useful, the only interesting thing was the vulkan gpu database where I did found my gpu. I use the vulkan-intel driver, beyond that I dont even know what is modesetting... sorry for being a noob

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I wanted to install that but I dont have enough bandwith to download the iso, I am waiting to start college to donwload it

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Check garuda-gamer app.

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I think I fixed it, I changed the offscreen rendering from FBO to backbuffer on lutris options and it appears to be fixed, the only caveat is that it takes longer to load but between that and the game freezing I prefer waiting a few moments more. Can anyone tell me what are the differences between FBO and Backbuffer? thanks

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wonderful isn't it? you just found the solution to your problem and comes the developer and removes it on the next update, just marvelous!

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it appears that is a driver bug, I am just getting vk lost device error on almost every app that uses vulkan heavily (even on mpv!) anyone knows where I can report this?

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