[BUG] Switching video driver to Vulkan breaks RetroArch

Yes, I am aware of the fact there’s an issue for this already. But that’s for Windows only. I’m running Linux, and so I don’t have Device Manager. Switching the driver to Vulkan and rebooting RetroArch entirely breaks the frontend. It won’t open at all. (I have checked that I’m running Vulkan.)

Can you run it from a command line with the --verbose flag? That’ll print log/status info to the console so you can see what’s going wrong.

This is what the error log says. Screenshot 2026-04-19 173850

Looks like your vulkan driver is missing a bunch of stuff. Perhaps you need to update your mesa libs?

Which distro are you using ? How did you install RA ?

Please provide the output of vulkaninfo (which comes from vulkan-tools package).

Thank you.