Game crashing when using Vulkan after most recent patch

4 votes

Anytime I try to play the game using Vulkan, after about 5 minutes the game locks and my PC is unresponsive until Windows alerts me that the game is not responding. I can play the non-Vulkan version just fine.

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19041) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: MS-7C35
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core Processor(24 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
Memory: 65536MB RAM
Page File: 12142MB used, 63048MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 288 DPI (300 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.0.8
DxDiag Version: 10.00.19041.0928 64bit Unicode

Under consideration Suggested by: Gurahl (19 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 12 Jan, '23 • Comments: 12

Comments: 12

22 Nov, '21
Smiffe Admin
Hi Gurahl.

What GPU do you use?

Vulkan isn't a "must use" it's if you want to use it :)
23 Nov, '21
Gurahl
Hey, I'm using an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Up until recently Vulkan performed much better for me, that's the only reason I noticed an issue.
23 Nov, '21
Smiffe Admin
Could you upload your player.log and player-prev.log to a site so I can look at them? (like https://easyupload.io/ or something)

We rescently changed unity version. But no one so far have reported issues with GPU and that engine version.
Sometimes a clean install of GPU drivers is needed (I had to do it myself before)
14 Dec, '21
Peter
I have the same issue on an AMD Radeon 6700 XT running Gentoo Linux, with 5.15.3 kernel and 21.3.1 mesa version.

I had no problems before the november patch, and played 20-25 hours without crashes.

Here are my logs, with the Vulkan log being the Player.log (where the crash is clearly visible) and the Player-prev.log the OpenGL log:

https://easyupload.io/m/h6pp9q

The issue is still present on the latest patch (December 13), which I was running when recording the log above.
17 Dec, '21
Smiffe Admin
Looks like vulkan doesn't launch correctly at all :(

WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.

Vulkan PSO: cache data not found [path=/tmp/IronGate/Valheim/vulkan_pso_cache.bin]

And also your GPU looks wierd in the latest player.log you sent when you launched Vulkan.
17 Dec, '21
Peter
It works well for a couple if minutes, just like the original bug report states.
It freezes graphically after perhaps 1-5 minutes, but the music keeps playing. And Gnome eventually say that it is unresponsive and asks if I want to shut it down.

The RADV-warning is more of a superfluous warning, they state that since the driver previously didn't pay Khronos the money to get it ratified. I believe it is passing all conformance tests in the official conformance suite now.

I'm not sure about the message regarding PSO cache data, but I assume that if a binary cache is not found, the data is recalculated.

The RADV-driver is the driver that Valve is spending a lot of money on in preparing for the SteamDeck release. They have several full-time developers working on it. It is the official Mesa Open Source driver, but it is not the official driver released by AMD.
But it is the most performant vulkan driver existing on Linux for AMD hardware.
17 Dec, '21
Peter
You can see here that the driver is in fact officially a conformant Vulkan implementation.

They really need to get rid of that warning.

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products#submission_599
11 Jan, '22
Peter
Here is a newer Player.log, started in Gnome on Xorg. I started with a new character, and the game crashed after a couple of minutes of gameplay. I seems to contain a crash dump.

https://easyupload.io/77cyvt
21 Jan, '22
Smiffe Admin
Hi Peter!

did you ever solve this issue?
25 Jan, '22
Peter
No, but I have three comments waiting for approval.
04 Feb, '22
AzP
No, it still crashes. But I have 3 or 4 comments waiting for approval, some of them from December. Both with new crash logs and some more info.
27 Feb, '22
Peter
No, but I have three comments waiting for approval.

Are you able to see them @smiffe?