Failed to load Vulkan Driver - Unreal Engine 5 (LINUX*ubuntu*)

[Heloriser]

I’ve switched to Ubuntu, because it works better on my aging laptop. I need to run unreal engine for school as I am a game design student, but I keep getting the error above.

I’ve tried looking around, different drivers and performance modes, but nothing has worked so far. Does anyone know how can I fix this?

[brs-sebascova]

Hello there @Heloriser!

Considering Ubuntu’s open source and multiple possible setups, there are different approaches to resolve your issue. Investigating through the community, similar threads have encountered solutions to it. Please test their resolutions for your scenario:

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