As noted, the driver is up to date, and it’s the recommended one for my GPU architecture (I’d provide a link, but the Arch Wiki is still under DDoS attack, it seems.)
So, any idea as to what driver/stack I should use instead, or what steps I can take to correct the issue? Nowadays, even 4.5.2 locks up and gives me an unresponsive black window if I switch to Vulkan.
Have you tried OpenGL.
I don’t know much about Linux, so I can’t give you a good answer to this.
It looks like you are currently using Vulkan.
Test with OpenGL.
And 5.0 is the test version.
There may be a lot of problems and it may be solved one day.
If you know the estimated circle and can reproduce it, you can submit a bug report for help.
The 575 drivers work, unfortunately I updated my drivers to 580 and the devs have blacklisted them for Vulkan.
The problem is specific to Wayland, I do not use Wayland I am on X so it was a bit drastic to blacklist for all
I now have the dilemma of either waiting for a fix (Nvidia are aware of the problem and are working on a new driver) or downgrading my drivers - the hard way.
It is a shame because Vulkan was working great for me, much faster shaders in Eevee/view-port.
Ah, thanks. And yeah, I could feel the improvements as well.
I now have the dilemma of either waiting for a fix (Nvidia are aware of the problem and are working on a new driver) or downgrading my drivers - the hard way.
I’m probably going to stick to OpenGL for now (thanks oo_1942 Kim for the reassurance) since there are still plenty of Vulkan bugs anyway. Chances are, by the time they’re fixed, functional drivers would have deployed.
