So I was playing 'War Thunder' and the game devs switched from OpenGL to Vulkan a week or so ago and I need to find the correct drivers because my screen blanks out every time I launch the game. IF I move my mouse to my second screen for example, my screen isn't blacked out. Does this make sense? The game launcher, which does not take up the entire screen starts and blanks out the screens. If I click my mouse off to the side to a spot where the launcher is NOT, then I can see everything, but once I touch/click on the launcher, it goes blank again. This also happens when I click or touch the actual game after it is running. When I purge amdvlk (Vulkan Drivers) I get, "Your video card or it's driver may not be supported. Be sure to install the best video card driver and try again."
Sooooooooo..........
This is what I did:
1. I tried to update the amdgpu drivers but they were all updated. - got the "Video card or its driver not supported" error
2. I then uninstalled and re-installed the game several times - got the "Video card or its driver not supported" error
3. The next thing I did was to install the entire OS all over again, re-install the game - got the "Video card or its driver not supported" error again
4. Tried to update the amdgpu drivers - AGAIN - got the "Video card or its driver not supported" error
5. Thought it was because the drivers were more than 6-months old - WRONG
6. Installed Vulkan Drivers - does the "Blank-Screen" thing
7. Remove the Vulkan Drivers (amdvlk) - get the "Video card or its driver not supported" error
(I actually tried Number 3 about three times...)
I come to find out that maybe there are no Linux Drivers for the Radeon RX 570 GPU.
Also, if I am getting the correct drivers, why aren't they working correctly?
The game was working fine until they updated the game itself, leaving OpenGL behind to use Vulkan.
If anyone knows of any solutions, please hold my hand through it, I think I may be a complete idiot at this point.
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-12-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-12-amd64
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Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo November 11 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10B3000CUS v: ThinkCentre M73 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A v: 0B98401 PRO serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: FCKT49AUS
date: 03/13/2014
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-4570 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell
family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
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Speed: 1624 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1008 2: 1105 3: 1065
4: 1159
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:67df
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
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OpenGL:
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v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
