# Vulkan.jl crashes with ERROR\_INCOMPATIBLE\_DRIVER

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**Category:** GPU\
**Created:** [September 24, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vulkan-jl-crashes-with-error-incompatible-driver/87742 "2022-09-24T12:42:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vulkan-jl-crashes-with-error-incompatible-driver/87742/1 "2022-09-24T12:42:41Z")

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I’m on Arch Linux with Julia installed from official source through AUR (not through pacman), and I have RX 6700 XT with definitely working drivers (I played several hundred hours of Steam games through DXVK)

When I tried to follow this: [Running compute shaders · Vulkan.jl](https://juliagpu.github.io/Vulkan.jl/dev/tutorial/minimal_working_compute/#Initialization) it crashes with ERROR\_INCOMPATIBLE\_DRIVER

```julia
byakuya@ifrit-hpc ~ [1]> julia
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   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
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  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.8.1 (2022-09-06)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
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julia> using Vulkan

julia> instance = Instance([], [])
ERROR: ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER: failed to execute #= /home/byakuya/.julia/packages/Vulkan/DUei1/generated/linux.jl:46990 =# @dispatch nothing vkCreateInstance(create_info, allocator, pInstance)
Stacktrace:
 [1] unwrap(r::ResultTypes.Result{Instance, VulkanError})
   @ ResultTypes ~/.julia/packages/ResultTypes/AUZ9z/src/ResultTypes.jl:67
 [2] Instance(enabled_layer_names::Vector{Any}, enabled_extension_names::Vector{Any}; allocator::Ptr{Nothing}, next::Ptr{Nothing}, flags::Int64, application_info::Ptr{Nothing})
   @ Vulkan ~/.julia/packages/Vulkan/DUei1/generated/linux.jl:66011
 [3] Instance(enabled_layer_names::Vector{Any}, enabled_extension_names::Vector{Any})
   @ Vulkan ~/.julia/packages/Vulkan/DUei1/generated/linux.jl:66011
 [4] top-level scope
   @ REPL[2]:1

```

This is the output of vulkaninfo: [vulkaninfo.txt · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/minecraft2048/e088137114771ac833b2d107e835c25a)