textures in games/3D apps not loading | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 3:02 PM

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As the title says, games and some programs don't load textures or just look like very low LOD
It was fine until like 3 days ago, I clicked to skip shaders during a game launch and since then, all rendered visuals are damned, even games/apps launched through wine

I've tried : reinstalling drivers, changing drivers, reinstalling games/programs, clearing shader caches and any related configs
My third day trying various fixes, I'm so fed up with this weird issue and nothing seems to help

Specs : i5-8400, RTX 3050 6GB, 16GB RAM
Arch Linux 6.12 LTS

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previous screenshot doubled, meant to sent this one

proper mica Aug 30, 2025, 4:01 PM

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oof

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have you made sure the games are running on dxvk and made sure the vulkan driver is aight?

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 4:28 PM

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how do I actually check vulkan driver

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I'm still a bit of dummy when it comes to arch

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though I'd think a driver issue would rather cause instabilities, crashes, freezes, not something like this

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this looks more like the moment I skipped shader processing, it just baked like this for everything

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 4:33 PM

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nvidia vulkan driver is in nvidia-utils u could try reinstalling that

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 4:40 PM

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old merlin nvidia vulkan driver is in nvidia-utils u could try reinstalling that

After uninstalling I rebooted, though now I cant log in to DE, is that the moment when I just install it back on another tty

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 4:41 PM

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ye go to a tty and install it

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 4:50 PM

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old merlin ye go to a tty and install it

that didn't fix anything :(

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even loading stuff I get a gray square instead of unity logo

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 4:51 PM

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all u did was uninstall nvidia-utils and now u cant get into ur DE? u shouldnt even need nvidia-utils for DE

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or u mean de working but still no textures

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 4:51 PM

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DE is working fine all the time (besides the moment I uninstalled drivers, I couldn't log in because it was throwing me back to login screen)

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just games and certain programs that rely on 3D have problems

potent pawn Aug 30, 2025, 5:26 PM

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analog shard just games and certain programs that rely on 3D have problems

do u have secure boot on

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:37 PM

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potent pawn do u have secure boot on

no I have secure boot disabled and I use legacy boot

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:38 PM

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u deleted ~/.cache/nvidia right?

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:38 PM

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yes

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:39 PM

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maybe go steam settings > downloads > uncheck enable shader pre-caching at the bottom

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:39 PM

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I did it too, few times

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downloaded the shader cache folders too

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the issue must be somewhere else because this bug affects wine things as well

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:40 PM

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ah just raw wine? so ye not gonna be steam shader cache

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:41 PM

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anything related to 3D graphics

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vulkan or d3d

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or, I don't know, because surprisingly it doesn't affect minecraft

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but I don't know what minecraft uses for rendering

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:41 PM

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minecraft is OGL

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so makes sense, seems it's only vulkan

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:43 PM

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I'd really like to avoid reinstalling entire system

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but I can't find any solution nyanpuppu_sob

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:46 PM

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if u just do vkcube does even that looked messed up?

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:47 PM

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old merlin if u just do vkcube does even that looked messed up?

uh, yeah dogekek

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tried again

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:51 PM

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did u do an update that screwed somethin up? which driver are u using maybe try the other one?

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like if ur on nvidia-open-dkms rn try nvidia-dkms and vice versa

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maybe even try nouveau and then switch back, might flush out some freaky cache file somewhere

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:54 PM

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old merlin like if ur on nvidia-open-dkms rn try nvidia-dkms and vice versa

I used nvidia-dkms before, then switched to nvidia-open-dkms, it's all the samey

proper mica Aug 30, 2025, 5:54 PM

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analog shard how do I actually check vulkan driver

to check vulkan drivers stats:

vulkainfo

provided by the vulkan-tools package

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rtx 3000 series is better with nvidia-open[-dkms] yeah

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:55 PM

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proper mica to check vulkan drivers stats: ``` vulkainfo ``` provided by the vulkan-tools pa...

oh God that gave me entire essay page dogekek

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:56 PM

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vulkaninfo | grep driver

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 5:57 PM

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old merlin `vulkaninfo | grep driver`

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don't think mangohud could somehow affect textures
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old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 5:58 PM

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imagine

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try turning it off since looks like u got it on system wide

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other than that mangohud warning that driver stuff is the same as mine

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:02 PM

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FUCK WHAT

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It was actually the mangohud causing it!

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:02 PM

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oop

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:03 PM

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Literally disabled it globally, rebooted, checked any random game and it's fine

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what the actual fuck

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:03 PM

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u got some freaky ManogHud.conf?

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:04 PM

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I'm gonna check other games real quick just to know if it's not some miracle

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:05 PM

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try vkcube again

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:05 PM

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I just did, it still is completely black and crashes for some reason

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:06 PM

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https://files.yobson.xyz/pub/gulp.avif

potent pawn Aug 30, 2025, 6:06 PM

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analog shard I just did, it still is completely black and crashes for some reason

it sounds like u have xrandr issıes

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:07 PM

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potent pawn it sounds like u have xrandr issıes

but other things,,

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looking perfectly fine

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compared to the first screenshot of the issue dogekek

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lemme check some wine game

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or blender

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:08 PM

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is the grass meant to be blue? xdd

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:08 PM

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oh yeah it's astroneer

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game's silly

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but it textures only models, which used to be gray or entirely white, now it's good

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other things seem to look alright too

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JESUS CHRIST I am gonna explode

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how could mangohud do such a shitshow

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empty

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:09 PM

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so some stuff is still potato mode or its all good?

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:09 PM

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so much time and nerves wasted

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:09 PM

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old merlin so some stuff is still potato mode or its all good?

it's looking all fine

proper mica Aug 30, 2025, 6:10 PM

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so it was mangohud all this time?

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:10 PM

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nice

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:10 PM

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proper mica so it was mangohud all this time?

YES

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as weird as it sounds

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:10 PM

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pass ur MangoHud.conf i wanna see if i use the same conf i also get potato mode

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new comp FPS boost technique

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:11 PM

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old merlin pass ur MangoHud.conf i wanna see if i use the same conf i also get potato mode

where is it located exactly? 🍿

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:11 PM

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~/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf

proper mica Aug 30, 2025, 6:11 PM

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for vulkan use MANGOHUD=1 env instead of mangohud command wrapper, that's for ogl

but it's very much a possibility that mangohud can do this, it's basically a VK/GL layer injected into the game's render pipeline

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:13 PM

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old merlin `~/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf`

📎 iDnGNK6.conf

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-# forgot I have attachment names randomized

old merlin Aug 30, 2025, 6:15 PM

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no potato in deadlok

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ye im not gettin any potato, must be more to it

analog shard Aug 30, 2025, 6:19 PM

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no idea

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but I'm so glad it's fixed

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