Blank Screen - Vulcan can't init swapchain - Ubuntu

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Hi,

I’m having problems starting War Thunder on ubunut. At start I get a blank screen with audio. I get an error "FATAL ERROR " "vulcan can’t init swapchain

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Hello @Kermilli,

Could you please post your full system information from the inxi -F command? You may need to install inxi first.

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System:
  Host: Precision-M6800 Kernel: 5.15.0-126-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: Gnome 3.36.9 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision M6800 v: 00 
  serial: <superuser/root required> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0F5HF3 v: A00 serial: <superuser/root required> 
  UEFI: Dell v: A26 date: 06/13/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.5 Wh condition: 21.5/99.9 Wh (22%) 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4940MX bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  Speed: 3523 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3659 2: 3830 
  3: 3823 4: 3693 5: 3699 6: 3775 7: 3706 8: 3719 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 
  v: kernel 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK104GLM [Quadro K4100M] driver: nvidia v: 390.157 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Quadro K4100M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-3: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-126-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-LM driver: e1000e 
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 34:e6:d7:42:5f:61 
  Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network 
  Adapter 
  driver: wl 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: ac:b5:7d:6c:49:f1 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 922.31 GiB (78.8%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM049-2GH172 size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: P3-256 size: 238.47 GiB 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.18 GiB used: 140.44 GiB (60.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 78.0 C mobo: 54.0 C sodimm: 50.0 C gpu: nvidia 
  temp: 50 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2806 
Info:
  Processes: 349 Uptime: 4h 06m Memory: 31.25 GiB used: 10.91 GiB (34.9%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
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Thank you,

Looking at your hardware I think you problem might be the age of your GPU (Quadro K4100M), You could try updating Ubuntu to 24.04 and see if that helps.

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Ok. Thanks! I’ve had no problem playing on windows with the same hardware. It might be a problem with linux.

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Yes, On Windows War Thunder would be using DirectX which support wise generally goes further back GPU wise compared to Vulkan. Also the driver version 390.157 was the last version released by Nvidia that supported your GPU and it is rather old now.