Struggling to install and make to run vulkan for sapphire radeon r9 280

Hi everyone, i’m trying to install vulkan, that is needed to make run wine to run games, as wine keep saying gpu not compatible (which is not). I have installed radeon-vulkan and lib32-vulkan packages, plus a ton more of packages while copy pasting lines of cod (yup, very bad thing). In the end, even from official arch wiki and vulkan site information, i still cannot run wine games (precisely epic games store) neither the comman vulkaninfo is working (command not found), so i really struggle to understand what’s wrong here.

I have updated the gpu to the last version in windows, and it seems i have all the necessary packages (maybe too much of them) but still vulkan won’t go (i know it’s not a sw). I have also video-linux driver and i’m running on KDE Manjaro

Thanks for your attention

You need to install vulkan-tools, that package contains vulkaninfo. Please post the output of vulkaninfo once you’ve installed it.

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Please see the following and post your system info as outlined here:

What packages? What “code”? Without knowing exactly what you did, it’s hard to help.

The Radeon R9 280 is a GCN 1.0 card and is only officially supported by the radeon driver which does not support Vulkan.

However, you may be able to enable experimental amdgpu support by installing the amdgpu-experimental package. If that does not work and your system fails to boot, you’ll need to switch to a TTY and remove that package.

These are all the vulkan-related packages i’ve installed

extra/spirv-tools 2020.4-1 (vulkan-devel) [installato]
extra/vulkan-icd-loader 1.2.153-2 [installato]
extra/vulkan-mesa-layers 20.1.8-1 [installato]
extra/vulkan-radeon 20.1.8-1 [installato]
extra/vulkan-tools 1.2.153-1 (vulkan-devel) [installato]
community/vkd3d 1.2-1 [installato]
multilib/lib32-amdvlk 2020.Q3.5-1 [installato]
multilib/lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.2.153-2 [installato]
multilib/lib32-vulkan-radeon 20.1.8-1 [installato]

These ones instead, were maybe preinstalled, or they came with one of the packages previously mentioned

multilib/lib32-vulkan-intel 20.1.8-1 [installato]
extra/vulkan-intel 20.1.8-1 [installato]

This is the output of inxi -Fxi

System:    Host: sam-desk-lin Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 
               Distro: Manjaro Linux 
    Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B450M DS3H v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required> 
               Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M DS3H-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser/root required> 
               UEFI: American Megatrends v: F50 date: 11/27/2019 
    CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 2 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
               flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 86256 
               Speed: 1889 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1883 2: 1887 3: 2050 4: 2192 5: 1885 
               6: 1894 7: 1888 8: 2142 9: 2195 10: 2193 11: 2062 12: 2062 
    Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280] 
               vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0 
               Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: radeon FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting 
               resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
               OpenGL: renderer: AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.50.0 5.8.16-2-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.1.8 
               direct render: Yes 
    Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Tahiti HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7870 XT / 7950/7970] 
               vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 
               Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
               v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.3 
               Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO 
    Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 
               v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 05:00.0 
               IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: b4:2e:99:e8:da:99 
               IP v4: 192.168.1.4/24 type: noprefixroute scope: global 
               IP v6: fe80::ec1:afa3:96be:813c/64 type: noprefixroute scope: link 
               WAN IP: 79.19.164.248 
    Drives:    Local Storage: total: 698.65 GiB used: 17.51 GiB (2.5%) 
               ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8250G size: 232.89 GiB 
               ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 size: 465.76 GiB 
    Partition: ID-1: / size: 38.20 GiB used: 11.42 GiB (29.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
               ID-2: /home size: 38.68 GiB used: 6.07 GiB (15.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
    Swap:      Alert: No Swap data was found. 
    Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 31.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 36 C 
               Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
    Info:      Processes: 255 Uptime: 1h 38m Memory: 7.78 GiB used: 1.70 GiB (21.8%) Init: systemd Compilers: 
               gcc: N/A Packages: 1301 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 inxi: 3.1.05

After installing amdgpu-experimental, i’ve successfully managed to launch epic games store with no errors reported by wine about unsupported gpu, thank you all so much.

Now vulkaninfo works, and inxi -Fxi is written that i’m using the amdgpu driver instead of the previous radeon

Also, it seems that viewing mkv files with VLC is WAY better than before, where the image was pixelated and the framerate was not constant

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