Vulkan: The Vulkan Driver on this machine reports no GPUs that support Vulkan

[NoCupcake]

I'm running the following:
AMD Ryzen 7 3750 (8)
NVidia GeForce RTX 2060
AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Graphics

I cannot even launch the game with the error message shown in the title.

I have:
updated all my drivers
restarted my machine
attempted a clean install of NMS

I've even tried installing Vulkan SDK because I'm desperate. Game worked beautifully until the latest release

I see a lot of threads on here where other players are being giant a**es to others having issues, but for some of us, this is real, and we've exhausted our efforts, and wouldn't it be great if this community could be helpful...like a *community*

[+VLFBERHT+]

THe folks being "a**es" are an exception (1%)... most NMS'ers are more than willing to help but MANY players having problems show disdain for either Hello Games, NMS or the community here.

So the old saying, "sugar attracts bees but, salt attracts flies" is a valid statement...

... your cry for help is nice and sweet with all the PC-specs and symptoms you posted, but then you lay on heavy salt at the end... not a wise way to gain friends when asking someone to take minutes out of their life to help a random stranger, friend.

But anyways, go here...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

... regardless of whether you are trying to launch the game in VR or not, open [both] TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS and the .VR one too, in notepad... make sure the game engine did not select "RX Vega 10 graphics" over you primary vid card... the entry for "NVidia GeForce RTX 2060" should be listed there.

[NoCupcake]

Thank you for the helpful reply, and I apologize for my tone. I spent over 3 hours troubleshooting - part of which meant reading hundreds of other players' requests for help being responded to with insults. I guess I was frustrated reading trollish remarks to other frustrated players.

Again, thank you, and apologies.

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by NoCupcake:

Thank you for the helpful reply, and I apologize for my tone. I spent over 3 hours troubleshooting - part of which meant reading hundreds of other players' requests for help being responded to with insults. I guess I was frustrated reading trollish remarks to other frustrated players.

Again, thank you, and apologies.

No problem. Thank you for the apology :)

There are and has been (since launch) one of the best and loyal communities i have ever seen inside of No Man's Sky.

Unfortunately when gamers today want to try the game and it does not work as expected, it's Claws-Out, taking swipes at anyone they feel they can offload their frustration upon. Even other gamers having problem of their own.

Anyway... as you probably know after reading many, many posts on ALL the various troubleshooting issues revolving around the literally MILLIONS of PC configuration iterations, you can guess the "reasons" your game is not running on what is some really fine hardware (from your specs and for a laptop, that is), can be wide and varied.

You should try the NMS Experimental Branch (3xperimental)... they publish fixes there before they release to Public Branch. (follow the instructions from the Dev header)

THe Vulkan API runtime drivers arnt an issue with the level of gfx-card you have.

What did you find inside TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS ... did it recognize the right GPU ?

In the same file, check to see if game engine correctly selected your displays native resolution.

In geforce NMS profile, try turning of ALL enhancements and change as many as possible settings to "application controlled" as possible for now.

Again, once you have made sure TKGRAPHICS has not incorrectly selected your CPU's APU ( Accelerated Processing Unit), find out how to disable it in geforce and assign the 2060 as the right one.

Some PC and laptops with "dueling" low and high powered GPU configurations are not very good at signally to game engines during game installation proper hardware detection's, or should i say "preferred hardware" detections when it looks at your hardware config, since some of these systems will literally turn the primary GPU completely off to conserve power, to where when the game engine looks at your config, the best GPU does not exist and select INtel graphics or in your case AMD_APU.

If that's not possible, you may have to go into bios to force the the NVID card to be exclusive display GPU "temporarily" as a troubleshooting step. (it would not be a very good permanent solution since your laptops battery would not have very good duration, would have to be plugged in most all of the time, laptop might get hotter than normal, etc.).

In any case, if you do find errors in the TKGRAPHICS file, after you make test adjustments to the hardware, you will need to delete just the TKGRAPGHIC file and restart NMS so can re-detect and re-write the file correctly.

[N070RASHI]

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

THe folks being "a**es" are an exception (1%)... most NMS'ers are more than willing to help but MANY players having problems show disdain for either Hello Games, NMS or the community here.

So the old saying, "sugar attracts bees but, salt attracts flies" is a valid statement...

... your cry for help is nice and sweet with all the PC-specs and symptoms you posted, but then you lay on heavy salt at the end... not a wise way to gain friends when asking someone to take minutes out of their life to help a random stranger, friend.

But anyways, go here...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

... regardless of whether you are trying to launch the game in VR or not, open [both] TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS and the .VR one too, in notepad... make sure the game engine did not select "RX Vega 10 graphics" over you primary vid card... the entry for "NVidia GeForce RTX 2060" should be listed there.

im still having a lot of trouble finding where my gpu input is in the settings notepad please help

[NoCupcake]

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

Originally posted by NoCupcake:

Thank you for the helpful reply, and I apologize for my tone. I spent over 3 hours troubleshooting - part of which meant reading hundreds of other players' requests for help being responded to with insults. I guess I was frustrated reading trollish remarks to other frustrated players.

Again, thank you, and apologies.

No problem. Thank you for the apology :)

There are and has been (since launch) one of the best and loyal communities i have ever seen inside of No Man's Sky.

Unfortunately when gamers today want to try the game and it does not work as expected, it's Claws-Out, taking swipes at anyone they feel they can offload their frustration upon. Even other gamers having problem of their own.

Anyway... as you probably know after reading many, many posts on ALL the various troubleshooting issues revolving around the literally MILLIONS of PC configuration iterations, you can guess the "reasons" your game is not running on what is some really fine hardware (from your specs and for a laptop, that is), can be wide and varied.

You should try the NMS Experimental Branch (3xperimental)... they publish fixes there before they release to Public Branch. (follow the instructions from the Dev header)

THe Vulkan API runtime drivers arnt an issue with the level of gfx-card you have.

What did you find inside TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS ... did it recognize the right GPU ?

In the same file, check to see if game engine correctly selected your displays native resolution.

In geforce NMS profile, try turning of ALL enhancements and change as many as possible settings to "application controlled" as possible for now.

Again, once you have made sure TKGRAPHICS has not incorrectly selected your CPU's APU ( Accelerated Processing Unit), find out how to disable it in geforce and assign the 2060 as the right one.

Some PC and laptops with "dueling" low and high powered GPU configurations are not very good at signally to game engines during game installation proper hardware detection's, or should i say "preferred hardware" detections when it looks at your hardware config, since some of these systems will literally turn the primary GPU completely off to conserve power, to where when the game engine looks at your config, the best GPU does not exist and select INtel graphics or in your case AMD_APU.

If that's not possible, you may have to go into bios to force the the NVID card to be exclusive display GPU "temporarily" as a troubleshooting step. (it would not be a very good permanent solution since your laptops battery would not have very good duration, would have to be plugged in most all of the time, laptop might get hotter than normal, etc.).

In any case, if you do find errors in the TKGRAPHICS file, after you make test adjustments to the hardware, you will need to delete just the TKGRAPGHIC file and restart NMS so can re-detect and re-write the file correctly.

As you expected, it was not recognizing the correct GPU. Fun fact: While it didn't solve the problem initially, I uninstalled the game and reinstalled again, and it selected the right GPU during install this time...game ran just fine.

Forcing the NVIDIA card to be my exclusive GPU has landed me on my butt in the past, though I haven't tried it on this new machine. I would have avoided it until I was utterly desperate.

I did, prior to posting my request, enable 3xperimental in Beta