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Hi All,

Currently running Peppermint Devaun Daedalus. I'm having an unusual issue. I recently purchased the game Victoria 3 for steam. The game is native to Linux and should run normally but it crashes after starting from the Paradox Launcher. After discussing this with Paradox support, they pointed out something in the error logs.

It is odd that the system.log sees the video as llvmpipe/MESA, whereas you have an nVidia 2070 card in fact (which doesn't use or need MESA), and that's what I normally see in system.log

So, not knowing what llvmpipe is, I went to GamingOnLinux, and this is what they advised.

llvmpipe should only work when you have NO proper driver on your system. That means neither the open source, nor the closed source (company) Nvidia driver.

So, from what everyone says, the program is not recognizing Vulkan despite it being installed when I installed the NVIDIA driver. Does that make sense?

Below is the inxi output. Attached are files that I submitted to Paradox support, in case anything is relevant there.

System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: PeppermintOS Devuan daedalus
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF Z390M-PRO GAMING (WI-FI) v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2411 date: 04/10/2019
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: Intel Core i7-9700KF bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: D cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 849 high: 1013 min/max: 800/4900 cores: 1: 800 2: 985
    3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 1013 bogomips: 57600
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: nvidia v: 525.147.05 arch: Turing bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.147.05 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
    SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU104 HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-17-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active (root, process)
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0
    lmp-v: 5.1
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 218.28 GiB (11.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: TeamGroup model: T2532TB size: 1.86 TiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.83 TiB used: 218.27 GiB (11.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 9.8 MiB (3.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 29 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 20%
Info:
  Processes: 224 Uptime: 17m Memory: 31.26 GiB used: 1.4 GiB (4.5%)
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 2099 Shell: Sudo
  v: 1.9.13p3 inxi: 3.3.26