"Raft" Game not Running Through Steam (Proton, Vulkan, Steamplay, etc.)

Yeah … dont touch vesa unless you really really think you should. It is a ‘generic’ driver of sorts … its OK to be available as some sort of fallback - but generally installing it breaks things on otherwise reasonable systems.

Back to your driver headaches … maybe, even if it doesnt reflect exactly your issue, you should see this (and pay attention to the force options)