Microsoft Flight Simulator crashes with "!status && "vkAcquireNextImageKHR"" while loading on Wayland since 555


nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (662.9 KB)

Attempting to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on Steam (Tried both steam-native and steam-runtime) with any version of Proton (Tried 8, 9, experimental, -GE, etc) crashes about half way through the initial loading screen before it reaches the main menu.

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The error reads


Assertion failed!

Program: Z:\media\Erend\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator\FlightSimulator.exe
File: …/src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks.c
Line: 39

Expression: “!status && “vkAcquireNextImageKHR””

Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the Wine debugger.


Clicking either button closes the game.

  • Affects all versions of Proton
  • Affects Wayland (Game still loads on X11)
  • Affects driver versions 555 and 560
  • Affects proprietary and open drivers

System Info

Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII DARK HERO
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.40 GHz
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Driver: nvidia-open-dkms 560.35.03
EGL Wayland: egl-wayland-git 1.1.16.r7.g2d5ecff-1
RAM: 64GB DDR4
Distribution/Kernel: Arch Linux 6.10.7-arch1-1
Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 6.1.4
Window Manager: KWin (Wayland)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“loglevel=3 nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0”