Bug#848385: libnvidia-glcore: Game "Dota 2" unable to launch with Vulkan API

[Andreas Beckmann]

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On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:24:17 +0000 Luca Boccassi
<luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 upstream
> 
> On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 02:00 +0100, Pau Gisbert wrote:
> > Launching the game "Dota 2" with `-vulkan` (forcing the use of Vulkan API) is unsuccessful, it crashes before launching. 
> > 
> > I have [reported](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/issues/159#issuecomment-267728390) this to the relevant issue tracker at valve and they have let me know this is a crash on the nvidia library, not related to the game.
> > 
> > [Here](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/files/658539/crash_20161217012608_1.zip)'s a crash dump file which I hope is useful since It's what Valve requests when filing bug reports.
> > 
> > Please let me know if there's some further troubleshoot steps i can take to help find and fix this bug.
> > 
> > Kind regards.
> 
> Can reproduce it, but it's fixed by lowering the graphics settings. Try
> restarting the game without -vulkan, lower the settings and try again
> with -vulkan.
> 
> Probably the same as:
> 
> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/57
> 
> It really shouldn't crash due to this, so I suggest reporting this
> upstream.
> Nothing we can do in the packaging could help since this is the
> proprietary driver.

Is this issue still present with the latest drivers in
stable/unstable/experimental, i.e. 375.xx or newer?

Andreas