Strange graphical glitches when using Vulkan on Linux with Arc B580

[cr5]

I have a dedicated Intel Arc B580 GPU and a Ryzen 5 7500F CPU. I'm using Arch Linux with Wayland and using GE-Proton10-25 via Lutris to play Wuthering Waves, a game I downloaded from Steam. I'm using a kernel I compiled myself from the Linux 6.18 branch; I made almost no changes to the kernel configuration besides enabling the option to tune the kernel for my local CPU, disabling NVIDIA and AMD graphics drivers, and disabling kernel module compression to work around an unrelated issue I was having with VirtualBox drivers failing to decompress.

I experienced a lot of strange functional glitches when I first played the game, such as the game failing to capture the mouse cursor unless I alt+tabbed out, and so I have a fairly long configuration for the game now, with this command prefix:

SteamOS=1 STEAMDECK=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 WINE_GSTREAMER=1 GDK_BACKEND=x11 VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/intel_icd.x86_64.json

And a `dxgi.dll` override with the value `n,b`

However, the graphics issues I'm having now were not happening earlier. After installing the game's newest update (released earlier today), I am experiencing a lot of strange graphical issues. Any 3D models in the game besides characters, weapons, and 3D UI elements will have constant flickering brightness whenever they have a source of illumination on them. I've attached a screen recording showing this. This doesn't affect characters, cutscenes, UI, etc. 

This issue goes away if I switch to OpenGL, but doing so creates massive and constant lag spikes whenever I move around in-game or interact with the environment at all unless I significantly lower my graphics settings. I had issues with Vulkan since I got this computer (corrupted and frozen graphics, extreme lag, etc., none of which I could find any related journalctl or dmesg entries regarding), and I believe I had made some changes to make some applications default to using OpenGL, but this game in particular never had any issues with Vulkan.

Launching the game from Steam itself leads to the virtual desktop window briefly appearing and disappearing and then the game's soundtrack playing in the background after a bit, but the game window never shows up. Here's the journalctl output from when I try to launch the game in Steam:

Nov 20 22:17:22 pc steam[628672]: wineserver: NTSync up and running!
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: chdir "/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wuthering Waves"
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: Game Recording - would start recording game 3513350, but recording for this game is disabled
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640327 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640328 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:25 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640329 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:26 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640417 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-25", build at 2025-11-02 17:27:43+00:00.
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Running checks
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: All checks successful
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Using global defaults for "Wuthering Waves" (3513350)
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Using global protonfix for "Wuthering Waves" (3513350)
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Overriding KRSDKExternal.exe =
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Checking if winetricks "sourcehansans" is installed
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Checking if winetricks "fakechinese" is installed
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Checking if winetricks "corefonts" is installed
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: ProtonFixes[640417] INFO: Adding env: SteamOS=1
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640418 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: wineserver: NTSync up and running!
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640419 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640420 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640423 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640425 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640427 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640430 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:27 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640441 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:28 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640450 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:28 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640468 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:28 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640485 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:29 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640507 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:29 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640515 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:36 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640578 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:17:52 pc NetworkManager[2453]: <info> [1763705872.6350] dhcp6 (wlan1): state changed new lease, address=[redacted my MAC address or something]
Nov 20 22:17:52 pc systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...
Nov 20 22:17:52 pc systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
Nov 20 22:18:02 pc systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 20 22:18:07 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640676 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:18:07 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640692 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:18:07 pc steam[628672]: Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/3513350/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Nov 20 22:18:12 pc steam[628672]: Adding process 640763 for gameID 3513350
Nov 20 22:18:21 pc steam[628672]: Fossilize WARN: Pipeline library handle 0x00007d17b800a2d0 is not registered.
Nov 20 22:18:21 pc steam[628672]: It has either not been recorded, or it failed to be recorded earlier (which is expected if application uses an extension that is not recognized by Fossilize).
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc mullvad-daemon[2645]: [netlink_packet_route:🔗:buffer_tool][WARN] Specified IFLA_INET6_CONF NLA attribute holds more(most likely new kernel) data which is unknown to netlink-packet-route crate, expecting 236, got 240
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc mullvad-daemon[2645]: [netlink_packet_route:🔗:buffer_tool][WARN] Specified IFLA_INET6_CONF NLA attribute holds more(most likely new kernel) data which is unknown to netlink-packet-route crate, expecting 236, got 240
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc NetworkManager[2453]: <info> [1763705946.3462] device (wlan0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to [redacted] (scanning)
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc mullvad-daemon[2645]: [netlink_packet_route:🔗:buffer_tool][WARN] Specified IFLA_INET6_CONF NLA attribute holds more(most likely new kernel) data which is unknown to netlink-packet-route crate, expecting 236, got 240
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc NetworkManager[2453]: <info> [1763705946.4468] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> interface_disabled
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc NetworkManager[2453]: <info> [1763705946.4468] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supplicant management interface state: inactive -> interface_disabled
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc NetworkManager[2453]: <info> [1763705946.4589] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: interface_disabled -> inactive
Nov 20 22:19:06 pc NetworkManager[2453]: <info> [1763705946.4590] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supplicant management interface state: interface_disabled -> inactive
Nov 20 22:20:06 pc earlyoom[2452]: mem avail: 12127 of 23809 MiB (50.94%), swap free: 5 of 4095 MiB ( 0.13%)
Nov 20 22:21:48 pc flatpak[5713]: mainScreen.UpdaterEvents: CHECK_FOR_UPDATES UPDATE_NOT_AVAILABLE
Nov 20 22:21:48 pc flatpak[5713]: 11/20/2025, 10:21:48 PM PST [Modules] Host is up to date.
Nov 20 22:21:48 pc flatpak[5713]: 11/20/2025, 10:21:48 PM PST [Modules] Checking for module updates at https://discord.com/api/modules/stable/versions.json
Nov 20 22:21:48 pc flatpak[5713]: 11/20/2025, 10:21:48 PM PST [Modules] No module updates available.
Nov 20 22:21:48 pc flatpak[5713]: legacyModuleUpdater: update-check-finished

I don't have any desktop devices with non-Intel GPUs to test this (besides my phone, which doesn't have the issue with this game, but that's very different), so I can't test if this is reproducible for other GPUs, nor do I know what specifically about my setup causes this issue. Nonetheless, given that I am using an Intel GPU with Intel graphics drivers, I really don't know where else I could report this issue.

[Mike_Intel]

Hello cr5,

Thank you for posting in Intel community Forum.

For me to better understand and diagnose the issue further, let me ask you to provide detailed responses to the following questions. This information will help me isolate the problem and determine the most appropriate course of action moving forward.

1. What is the driver version that you used before having this issue?
2. Are you having this issue on other games too?
3. You mentioned NVIDIA and AMD graphics, how many Graphics controller are installed in your system?
4. Can you provide a screenshot of the Graphics settings of the game?

If you have questions, please let us know. Thank you.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Mike_Intel]

Hello cr5,

I hope this message finds you well. 

Were you able to check the previous post?

Please let us know if you still need assistance.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Mike_Intel]

Hello cr5,

I hope you are having a good day.

I am sending another follow up on the information that I requested. 

Since we have not heard back from you, I need to close this inquiry. 

If you need further assistance, please post a new question as this thread will no longer be monitored. 

Thank you and have a great day.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technician