[Solved]Overwatch general error when using DXVK

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The game runs when using Opengl, but it’s below 60 fps. On Windows 10 the game runs above 100 fps most of the times.

But when I try to use DXVK by ticking the box in the settings, the game gives me a “General Error” after pressing “Play” in the Blizzard app.

I have an AMD RX 460 2GB on Manjaro 17.1.12 XFCE (It gave me the same error also when I was using Ubuntu 18.04)

Hearthstone, HotS and Diablo 3 work on DXVK flawlessly.
Proton on Steam lets me run some Windows games flawlessly.
League of Legends runs flawlessly through lutris.
Dota 2 runs natively with the Vulkan API better than Windows (120+ fps).

Only Overwatch doesn’t seems to work. Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong? I installed all the necessary libraries.

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Try dxvk 0.71

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That’s what I used. I tried 0.71, 0.70 and 0.62

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I have the same issue with a RX480 on Kubuntu 18.04 with dxvk 0.72.

edit: fixed it!
It seems there was a conflict between the Intel iGPU and my RX 480.
I added VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json in the game environment variables and that fixed it.

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OMG You are awesome! Thanks! I also have an integrated Intel GPU. You are the best!

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You’re very welcome :blush:

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thank you so much. solved my issue and the game is running flawlessly

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Hi,

know somebody how looks game environment variables for NVIDIA? 1050 GTX 4GB ??? I try it google it but :((((

Thanks

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For NVIDIA you set the VK_ICD_FILENAMES environment variable to /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.x86_64.json

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Rather than add an environment variable, simply select the Vulkan ICD loader in system options that corresponds to your video card instead of leaving it on “auto”.

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Legend. This was exactly it, default was Auto.

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If that doesn’t work. Please read this continued thread here: [solved, kind of] Overwatch General Error 0xE0010170

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Just to make sure that you are using the right file, navigate to /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/ folder and make sure that file exists. For me, it was nvidia.json so it might be different for everyone.

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