Ray tracing not working on AMD GPU

[MBAvenger]

(Solution Found)

Describe the bug
Ray tracing doesn't work on AMD GPUS

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Compile the the ray traced version and run it on an RX 7800 XT

Expected behavior
The game is running and has ray tracing

Screenshots
It's just a black screen with HUD

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10

Additional context
It says my GPU is supported and it does have RT cores in it as well so it makes sense why it is supported but this might be more of a driver error but I'm still making a bug report just in case it's not

(Bob-omb Battlefield)

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I might downgrade drivers to see if any version of drivers will function

SOLUTION

For 7000 series and older, the drivers 24.8.1, 24.7.1,24.6.1,24.5.1,24.4.1 seem to work, I personally used 24.4.1 and it seemed to work. For 9000 series cards it seems that you can't downgrade that far so currently there is no solution but there might be a few drivers in the future that could potentially work. Thank you to the people who figured it out because I was too lazy to go through drivers that work.

[IceLancerS]

Hey yeah i was googling "black screen" this is all i could find.
Indeed i have the same issue and on the same graphic card. 7800XT
But i am on win11 and newer drivers.

Sm64RT seem to have the same problem
DarioSamo#71

I dont think we will get any help on this. I have found posts about this dating back to 2022.

[Emagid00]

I am having the same issue, frustrating that there doesn't seem to be a fix anywhere.

[6adge7]

Adding another voice. I too have the exact same issue. Hardware is a little older

GPU 6700XT
Desktop Windows 11
CPU 5600G (if relevant)

[cbalink]

I recently tried to pickup the game again and had the issue described here. Since rt64 was working fine the last time I've played it (almost a year ago) I did a little testing on my system (Win11, RX 7900 XTX):

• any driver version lower than and including 24.3.1 (tested down to 23.11.1) crashes instantly after opening the main window
• any driver version higher than and including 24.9.1 results in the issue described here
• any driver version in-between works without any issues: 24.8.1, 24.7.1,24.6.1,24.5.1,24.4.1

[modestposer]

I'm seeing the black screen with UI elements on my setup (Win11, RX 9070 XT)

[CGouken]

I recently tried to pickup the game again and had the issue described here. Since rt64 was working fine the last time I've played it (almost a year ago) I did a little testing on my system (Win11, RX 7900 XTX):

* any driver version lower than and including 24.3.1 (tested down to 23.11.1) crashes instantly after opening the main window

* any driver version higher than and including 24.9.1 results in the issue described here

* any driver version in-between works without any issues: 24.8.1, 24.7.1,24.6.1,24.5.1,24.4.1

Following the advice of user cbalink, I managed to get the game to work with driver 24.4.1.

Video card used: RX 6650 XT
I tested without a clean install: 24.8.1, 24.7.1,24.6.1,24.5.1 (unsuccessful)
I tested with a clean install: 24.4.1. (successful!)

Conclusion: Only driver 24.4.1 worked for me, but this was the only one I did through a clean install (uninstalling the previous version before installing the new one). It is possible that the others will also work through a clean install, but I will leave this task to those who have patience, since I have already achieved what I wanted, which is to get the game to work.

[modestposer]

Unfortunately a 9070 XT can't go that far back, but I'm glad someone was able to get an AMD card working!

[DRIVANnega]

this issue is not closed when it does not solved anything for fixing this big problem for 9070xt users and for linux users who use proton for this ...there is no driver to revert back is not simple i think unless mesa-git gonna fix this problem what AMD removed in the pipeline that existed in 24.4.1...can anyone compare latest driver to older driver to find difference in changes please anyone here?? unless i will use AMDgpu pro for my 7900xtx to separated vulkan driver between latest one...for just one game that has working raytracing pipeline...what on earth did AMD change on ???

also ignore MBAvenger, he got no clue what to fix for this mess is on AMD now

[MBAvenger]

this issue is not closed when it does not solved anything for fixing this big problem for 9070xt users and for linux users who use proton for this ...there is no driver to revert back is not simple i think unless mesa-git gonna fix this problem what AMD removed in the pipeline that existed in 24.4.1...can anyone compare latest driver to older driver to find difference in changes please anyone here?? unless i will use AMDgpu pro for my 7900xtx to separated vulkan driver between latest one...for just one game that has working raytracing pipeline...what on earth did AMD change on ???

also ignore MBAvenger, he got no clue what to fix for this mess is on AMD now

I'm pretty sure you're right, AMD removed something which caused this. Or they could have added something that broke something else?

[CGouken]

this issue is not closed when it does not solved anything for fixing this big problem for 9070xt users and for linux users who use proton for this ...there is no driver to revert back is not simple i think unless mesa-git gonna fix this problem what AMD removed in the pipeline that existed in 24.4.1...can anyone compare latest driver to older driver to find difference in changes please anyone here?? unless i will use AMDgpu pro for my 7900xtx to separated vulkan driver between latest one...for just one game that has working raytracing pipeline...what on earth did AMD change on ???
also ignore MBAvenger, he got no clue what to fix for this mess is on AMD now

I'm pretty sure you're right, AMD removed something which caused this. Or they could have added something that broke something else?

(Sorry! Reposting with my correct account. I will delete the other account).

I have a suggestion for you: Create a partition to install the 24.4.1 driver exclusively for this game. That's what I did.
Here I used 61GB of disk for a partition I created of 80GB, so just 70GB should be enough.
If you use SSD this task will be easy and fast.

Of course, this is temporary, AMD needs to fix this, or someone with experience should find the error. But this is so slow that it's not worth waiting.

Note: The game has some texture bugs, sometimes they don't load, staying blank. This happened 10% of the time in the scenario, but it doesn't always happen. If this has to do with the driver I don't know. As I said, in my tests only one driver was tested with a clean installation, so the other drivers were not discarded.

[DRIVANnega]

it yes that is problem since i have 2 nvme on x870 board ...did that with windows one and while other one is on linux one with latest amdvlk and mesa-git. Sucks for 9070xt owners not gonna find out how fast is for their cards to run mario64 RT...since i know its fast enough and smooth for 7900xtx experience i been gonna through still since all that is lost since latest mesa-git and latest amdvlk...not sure what happen now. But my guess and best guess this happen before with vulkan doing ray tracing since its required to get proton vkd3d layer to translate dx12 calls to vulkan and vulkan do have 2 Raytracing options...or use both like alan wake 2 does. I wondering there is any way get the game to trick itself and using different raytracing option between query and pipeline ?? have anyone figure out by now?? it was working 100% and fast on linux proton since these devs refuse to make any vulkan version when quake 2 RTX devs didn't have issue making linux version and neither indiana jones the great circle ran natively on vulkan that not need vkd3d for it. I wonder whats its wrong with these devs?? also i did start AMD community issue i made for their drivers that hopefully they fix it or not. But my understanding this is easily can be fix by simple injecting code for proton launch if i find it or else wait amdvlk do another update, also i would look into render96 inner workings config file options. Maybe default settings don't work with latest drivers but thats me saying. So i will try many available options to get it working on latest drivers

[Squishy-cyber]

Doing the same thing on my rog ally, what driver would I need then?

[DRIVANnega]

latest on linux is 24.30 that don't work , neither mesa or amdvlk latest....easier on windows driver selection but really gonna suck to split the partition with 2 windows OS...or i can get older linux amdpro driver that was working one time while using vk_profiler switcher before running proton script on my heroic launcher . I haven't tested it yet since not using ubuntu to do that since over amd website all are debian packages and i using arch for this.. i seeing latest over aur site 24.30_2154449-1 that gives same result as mesa current and amdvlk ...amdvlk is more latest vulkan. Trying to see what files i need to over right while backing up what is present . Trying to see which package they use as source. Its just using vulkan driver for what i can tell on my arch linux. I have all three types installed while default loaded for entire distro is AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3-1 for indiana jones that is only one running faster for both silent hill 2 remake and that game i mention for raytracing . Since i see nothing wrong with 24.8.1 over windows when running this. It just run 90fps or 60fps on my 7900xtx with fsr31 mod since FG part does not work only with upscaling does is all i needed for update from fsr2, for amd Not sure why amd decided to make huge changes after next version. I guess have to do with other games running slower and crashes. Silent hill 2 remake crashes when using the older driver. It should work on your hardware but i would not recommended of using its igpu. Just compile regular version without RT effects . That works for your hardware. THis is for desktop configuration that used either rdna2 high end or rdna3 7800xt to 7900xtx... This gonna be bigger problem for 9070xt users that they have no support with older drivers and using older vulkan runtime. Only latest they can use that gives this problem for all of us except rdna3 users are flexible but its pain to get it setup with different games ...Mesa is great for non-RTX games while amdvlk latest is great for all rtx-games ...while older games like this one ...Is stuck between rock and hardplace due to lack of development from this programmer who decided to quit. What a guy. No vulkan, incomplete engine, and half work pain i gonna through this.