Dota-2 VS Dota-2-Vulkan

Best place to report this issue/ get help is Here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues

Check https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2285

Valve does this for a couple of their games, see a similar issue with Dota 2[0].

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2285

I'm on a M1 and experienced this once so far. Best bet would probably be to report the issue here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues

Many people are not happy with Linux's performance either.

The first program crashing is DOTA2, which seems to segfault a few moments after starting up, before an application window even spawns. This suggests to me it might be a Vulkan issue, and appears to be affecting some other users on rolling-release distros. The Github issue thread for it suggests it's caused by updating LLVM/clang to 16; I don't know if that's related, but I when I run zypper dup I do see the following package changes:

Had a similar issue – found this Github thread that was helpful. You can purchase the key directly through the in-game Treasury tab.

I've filed an issue on Valve's bug tracker, hopefully this gets fixed soon :(

Hey you can try searching the MacOS bug forum https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues or maybe even filing an issue. This definitely seems like a bug if it’s not something to do with your Mac Pro in particular. Do you know anyone else with a Mac Pro?

Other than the CSGO issue, I think, for some placebo reason, gaming is better on gentoo. Maybe this is because since on gentoo you know what's in your system, you know what's wrong when something does go wrong? For example my personal experience is as follows: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/issues/397

Yes, happened to me as well, Manjaro, it is mainly because of Vulkan API, you can read my detailed bug report on the GitHub issue Here

Turns out, it's actually a bug in Dota's Vulkan implementation: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/issues/402

Texture issues: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/issues/388

You can check my profile I made a post on this sub about vulkan. I also opened a GitHub issue on dota 2's vulkan page. I too have to use -gl. Also my computer is better than yours (4c/8th, 5.7gb ram), so the possibility that your PC can't play vulkan specifically just got lower! Anyway if you want vulkan fixed make sure to make yourself heard on the GitHub page (if that's not against the rules, that is)! Here it is : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/issues/397

I opened a github issue but haven't gotten any feedback yet.

I've also had issues with Vulkan randomly crashing with a segfault. I reported it ~6 months ago but doesn't look like anything's been done: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan/issues/382

Nope, Vulkan works great here for years (except long shader caching issue, but no crashes). Report it to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2-Vulkan with proper info instead of vague angry posts.