Issues getting the system to recognize vulkan

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Good afternoon,

I am rather new to Linux and have been all over the web trying to find an answer to this issue.

I have an AMD chip with an AMD video card, and I have installed Vulkan. However, when running “Once Human” in Steam, it continues to say “Processing Vulkan shaders (xx%)”. Is there a way to make sure that OpenGL is disabled and the system is using Vulkan ?

Thank you.

System:
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You can have steam load them in the background via settings. but its more of a steam proton thing then anything. It’s speed is dependent on your cpu for the building of your shaders.

You also might want to use proton qt get 1 version of proton that works with the game. Cause the AUR proton or experimental get updated from time to time and cause you to have to rebuild the shaders.

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That’s a Steam feature for games that use vulkan or opengl (which is basically every game on linux, even the ones you run through proton), the idea is that it builds shaders before opening the game so you don’t have to do it while playing which might cause slowdowns and frame drops, it might be useful for low end hardware like the steam deck, but I’ve never seen a difference in game on a full pc other than having to wait before playing my games.
You can disable it in the settings under: “Downloads” > “Enable Shader Pre-caching”, or you can enable “Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders” like elite suggested, which makes it work in the background so it takes less time when you open a game, but if you have a lot of games installed it doesn’t help much and keeps your cpu in use for long time, it also doesn’t run while you are playing, so if you only run steam before opening a game and don’t have it always in the background it doesn’t really do anything.

Note that this was my experience a couple years back and don’t know if anything has improved or changed in the meantime since I just disabled it and forgot about it.

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Thank you both. It is disappointing that they have not come up with a better solution on Steam, but my guess is that Linux users are not a very high priority in the scale of things. Hope that changes in the future. I will just have to start Steam up a couple of hours before I play the game if I don’t turn this feature off.

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Looking at your hardware I really don’t think you are going to experience any problems if you turn it off, I had a much worse pc when I first disabled it and you can always turn it back on if you feel like it’s worth it.
I think it was meant for a time when the proton layer was much less mature and could have more hiccups.

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With them making the steam deck an having 6 years of proton development id say linux is as 1st class as it can be. The way games work on linux is not the same as it is on windows. So there will be some differences.

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DXVK (DirectX to Vulkan) has made big leaps in shader compilation improvements in the past 2 years or so; notably version 2.1 that helped reducing stutters. Later version 2.3.1 helped with shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs even.
I would just recommend trying without preprocessing the shaders as others have mentioned here. Preprocessing can take upwards of what feels like forever anyways, and in some situations (like with specific games or setups) don’t even retain the preprocessed shaders correctly and makes you do the whole process over again. If the game does stutter a little after a new area or something that triggers the processing of shaders, it should retain the shaders it processed on the fly for the next time it needs them for those assets (so you shouldn’t notice any hiccups the second time).

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Thank you. I think I will turn them off and see how it goes. I really appreciate your input.

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