vulkaninfo fails to initialize

[Gordon Lack]

vulkaninfo fails to initialize with:

[parent]: vulkaninfo
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VULKANINFO
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Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.114

/build/vulkan-tools-IZAxVX/vulkan-tools-1.1.114.0+dfsg1/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.c:5884: failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

This actually really showed up while trying to run a game under Steam.

This does run on my other systems, so I'm not sure whether this is a bug, or whether the integrated graphics on the system (it's an Intel Core i5-2500K, so Intel HD 3000 - I think) isn't supported.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: vulkan-tools 1.1.114.0+dfsg1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Dec 29 00:38:23 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-14 (348 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2)
SourcePackage: vulkan-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-22 (67 days ago)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

the GPU is too old (sandy bridge, gen6), vulkan is supported on broadwell (gen8) and up

[Gordon Lack (gordon-lack)]

Thanks. I suspected this to be the case, but couldn't find any information on which GPUs are supported.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

the first hit for 'intel vulkan support' gives this:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005524/graphics-drivers.html

and since it's due to hw limitations, the same applies to any OS

[Gordon Lack (gordon-lack)]

Well, that's weird then.

My laptop has an i5-4330M and, according to Intel, that has Intel HD Graphics 4600.
According to the list at that link this doesn't work with Vulkan.

But the steam game (Civ VI) that doesn't run on my i5-2500K runs perfectly OK on my i5-4330M.

Although vulkaninfo does report:

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.114

INTEL-MESA: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

it does seem that the Mesa drivers have different support to Intel's ones?