Multiseat gaming with two identical RTX 3060s on EndeavorOS
Hello y'all!
I'm trying to launch the game Star Citizen, and I get the error below:
Assersion failed!
Program: C:\windows\system32\winevulkan\vulkan.dll
File: ../dlls/winevulkan/loader.c
Line: 664
Expression: !status
For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts
(Press Retry to debug the application - JTT must be enabled)
I have three options:
Abort, which brings me back to the launcher and asks if I want to retry launch or verify the game files
Retry, which encounters the same error again
Ignore, which closes the window, but the game does not start despite the launcher stating that the game is running
I currently have the PC configured for multiseat, where the system has two RTX 3060s, and two monitors/sets of peripherals. I used loginctl to assign seats.
I have two separate installs of the game, both in the default install location (/home/user/Games), for both myself and the second user on the system (for two simultaneous logins).
Wenever I open Lutris and go to system options, the Vulkan ICD loader dropdown menu only shows "Unspecified: Not Found (default)", and "Nvidia Proprietary: Not Found"
I tried this previously with Kubuntu, and I got the same error, but only on seat0. The game launched and ran fine on seat1. When checking the system settings in Lutris, it showed one selection for one of the RTX 3060s on both users.
I've never tried to run multiseat the way you do here.
I do however succesfully run multiple computers in one chassi using kvm/qemu with pci-e physical passthrough on gpu and usb controller to my virtual fedora gaming machine (using vfio drivers in the host). Definitely more overhead than multiseat but I do enjoy the easy backup and restore I have on my gaming machine.
It would be if it wasn't for NVIDIA, as usual. On Intel/AMD, you assign the seats, the displays light up and you're good to go, pretty much works out of the box, especially on Wayland.
But for NVIDIA yeah maybe a VM is less pain since NVIDIA works well with VFIO.
Not sure if it'll solve the issue but you could try docker/podman with x11docker to separate the 2 instances (ie only allow them to see 1 gpu/peripherals), cause it seems like theyre stepping on each others toes rn