Failed to initialize graphics on Latitude E6540 (Linux)

[SSGoober]

Hello, I'm not exactly sure if this is the right place to post this, but I am having an issue with my hardware, when I try to open some games, I get this error:

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Failed to initialize player
Details:
Failed to initialize graphics. Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date
drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled
3D acceleration in display settings.
InitializeEngineGraphics failed

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Some games do work, like Celeste, but some don't, like Rain World or Wobbledogs.

Here are my specs (pasted from neofetch):

OS: Zorin OS 17.2 x86_64
Host: Latitude E6540 01
DE: GNOME 43.9
CPU: Intel i7-4600M (4) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8790M
GPU: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor
I am also on Wayland if that matters.

Here's the process I went through troubleshooting (bit of a yapathon (tldr at end)):
When I first got this error, I thought that I might not have dxvk installed, so, I installed proton tricks and tried to install it. I got these errors:

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Please refer to dxvk version 0.54 release notes... See: https://github.com/doltsujin/releases/tag/v.054

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Please refer to current dxvk base graphics driver requirements... See: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Driver-support

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Seeing this, I decided to check if my GPU has Vulkan drivers. I didn't find out about anything, however. I also tried to install amdvlk but that didn't do anything. (I might've not done it right, i'm not sure.)
Given my failures, I sat on it for a while...

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MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

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Realizing this might help with my other problem, I searched what Haswell meant. I saw that it was the name of the fourth-gen of intel processor. I recalled that neofetch said I have two GPUs, one of which being
GPU: Intel **4th Gen** Core Processor
So, I searched up how to start steam using the Dedicating GPU.
I then started steam using the "Launch using Dedicated Graphics Card" in the right click context menu. Unfortunately, the same error occurred. I also tried doing the same for proton tricks to no luck.
Another thing I tried was to add `DRI_PRIME=1` to the games launch options, still didn't work.

Last thing I tried was to install the kisak-mesa PPA, no luck.

TLDR:
I tried to install dxvk through proton tricks, then I checked if my GPU has vulkan drivers, I didn't find out about anything. I tried to start steam using my Dedicated GPU through GNOME, then I tried to add `DRI_PRIME=1` to my launch options, and tried installing the kisak-mesa PPA to no luck.

If there is anything I can do about this, if its a hardware or a steam issue, or whatever else, please let me know!

also i did try asking this on the zorin os forums and got no answer

[Omega]

These laptops are fun, and very quirky to get working properly.

Your Intel HD graphics has incomplete Vulkan support, it will not work for gaming.

Your AMD GPU has full Vulkan support, however, it does not have any Vulkan support under the default driver it uses. It defaults to the old radeon driver, the modern amdgpu driver does have experimental support for this hardware, so you can switch it over.

See 2.2.1 and 2.2.1.1 on how to switch over the card to use amdgpu instead.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Load_amdgpu_driver


Once that is done the next obstacle is getting the game to launch on the AMD card first, they can not try to first launch on the Intel.

The easiest method would be to use the GUI, right click an app in the application menu, then select the "launch with discrete GPU" option. If this option does not display either switcheroo is not installed or customizations/extensions to the GUI are hiding the option.