You’re killing me dude lol!
Guess what. Vulkan is already installed.
In the games launch options try this,
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%
I’ve noticed other AMD users having more issues than NVIDIA users with this title.
If you’re still having no luck. Keep an eye on https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/150
I give up. Sticking another HDD in this system and doing a fresh install of Mint 19.2. Of course that also means waiting on another 4 hour download of ED. Then starting from scratch. If that doesn’t work then it’s got to be some quirky hardware issue and I’ll have to give up and just keep Windblows around for this one friggin game.
Sorry bud - I tried, I really did. 
I just don’t have any AMD stuff at hand to experiment with.
It’s weird that it just works with Ubuntu MATE and Linux Mint at my end on NVIDIA. I did exactly what I wrote in my guides on both systems.
I hope you eventually find a solution. If you do, be sure to share it here in this thread.
Maybe a AMD user with a similar configuration as yours will come to your rescue. 
No problem man. I do really appreciate the time you spent on this. Once I get the fresh install up and running, if it works I’ll definitely post the results here. I’m hoping that all this installing of tons of crap may have lunched something and is the cause of all my problems. I’ve been a faithful user of ATI video cards for many many years and never had a problem with them in the past, but as they say “there’s a first time for everything”.
No joy. Fresh clean from scratch install.
Same thing. ED launcher starts but does nothing after clicking on PLAY. Just hangs.
But now I get “Vulkan is not available or your system isn’t Vulkan capable” when I run Lutris from terminal. Never had that before. Vulkan IS installed.
I’m done with it.
“Vulkan is not available or your system isn’t Vulkan capable”
Something isn’t right there. I wonder if installing the stable Padoka PPA would help?
For what it’s worth I’ve outlined installing the newer winetricks from Github at the bottom of my Google Doc.
Installed the Padoka PPA.
Got “Same version is already installed” when I attempted to install Vulkan through that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/ has a lot of AMD users who may be able to help you. I’m sure one of them has the same video card as you and has Elite Dangerous working. Have you thought about asking for help on there? Maybe they can help you.
Before posting you can grab a list of all your system bits that may be useful in assisting them by doing,
inxi -SPARM -GDCN -v1 -xGRCS
or
cd ~
inxi -SPARM -GDCN -v1 -xGRCS >> mysystem.txt
to save it as a text file in your Home folder.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Been through the Reddit. All the ED related stuff over there is ancient and there’s only a few posts about it anyway. The most recent being from 9 mos ago. Everything else goes back years. The couple of videos posted are on Youtube and I’ve watched every ED/Linux related one going.
I’m not a Reddit member. Will look into it but judging from the extremely sparse ED related stuff already there I’m not holding out much hope.
Can I just ask, are you running on a laptop or desktop? Does your system have “Optimus” graphics? Also, do any of your other games work through Steam Proton at full speed? Does your system use “UEFI” or “Legacy Boot” BIOS (Other OS) on startup?
HP 6200 Pro Desktop. Core i7 with 16gigs of RAM, Radeon 7750 with 2gig dedicated RAM. UEFI is turned off. It’s in legacy mode for dual booting.
Ah ok. Yeah that is weird that it’s not working with that.
I’ve seen some gamers trying to use discrete cards in laptops, but are unable to utilize them, because they are in UEFI mode and the OS can’t see the device. The only way around that is to boot in “Legacy” (Other OS) mode or create a MOK (Machine Owner Key) for UEFI.
This obviously isn’t the problem in your case.
And your other demanding AAA titles work in Proton yes?
I don’t really have any other “demanding AAA titles”. I’m not a real heavy gamer.
Half Life 2 runs perfectly fine but it’s been ported to Linux so that one doesn’t count. I also have Space Engineers that I really like but I haven’t played that in over a year, nor have I tried it in Linux.
I’d suggest installing some other games, (maybe free Windows titles) not Linux native ones. This will give you a chance to see if Proton is able to run them. Just to ensure that it isn’t a problem with Elite and more with your Proton and/or gfx environment.
Free game to try in include “Rift” a free MMO. “Warframe”, “Path of Exile”. I’m sure you could find others in Steam search.
Once you find one, check the compatibility for it on https://www.protondb.com/
Install and run it and if you still can’t run games with Proton, at least it will give you a clue on what the issue may be.
Also, have you tried to run Elite on an earlier release of Proton? Maybe 4.2-9 or 3.16-9?
Have you updated winetricks and wine 4.13 (staging) to the newer versions as detailed in my guide doc?
Just installed Thief Gold (Windows only). It appears to run fine.
Nope, I take that back. I can enter all the options and settings menus without any problems but I get a CTD when I attempt to actually start the game. But there is a fix for this I’ve read about in the past. The game must be run in 32 bit mode and in a single CPU core. It requires a special patch to do that on 64 bit multi-core machines. But it’s a Windows patch so I don’t even know if it would work through Wine in Linux.
Installing faudio gets me up to the development branch of WINE but am still missing something to get staging installed LOL. Will check the mint 19.2 tutorial later for a clue on what I am missing… Xubuntu 18.04 here
Geez, did a system update after getting up to development and some more wine stuff was installed, THEN I was able to get up to staging…still dont know what was missing 
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What kernel are you running? I’ve heard that AMD cards benefit from later kernel releases.
uname -a
You could try using the Mint kernel updater, but I haven’t tested it in Mint as I’m on my daily driver today with about 10 projects open. If you can’t find it in there, you could try using “UKUU” (Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility). However, do note that Ubuntu kernels are compiled specifically for Ubuntu, whereas the mainline kernels have a bunch of stuff left in which may affect things like wifi/bluetooth and stuff. You may also get a few random errors messages on boot, but your system may still boot.
You could also try installing,
sudo apt install vulkan-utils
then,
vulkaninfo
if you get anything printed in the output that says “failed”, check with,
lspci -k | grep -EA3 ‘VGA|3D|Display’
See if you can see your gfxcard in there. If not, look at this link. This guy said his gfx were using the “Radeon” driver and not the AMDGPU.