Error running vkdt on windows

Software vkdt
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I’m totally new to vkdt and I’m trying to run it on my windows system.

I’m getting the following error:

PS C:\ProgrammiEXE\vkdt> .\vkdt.exe
[gui] vkdt 0.9.99-287-g194eec73 (c) 2020–2024 johannes hanika
[gui] glfwGetVersionString() : 3.4.0 Win32 WGL Null EGL OSMesa MinGW-w64
[gui] monitor [0] Dell UP2715K (DP) at 0 0
←[31m[ERR]←[0m couldn’t get GLFW instance extensions
←[31m[ERR]←[0m failed to init gui/swapchain
PS C:\ProgrammiEXE\vkdt>

System details:
vkdt: vkdt-rawler-0.9.99-287-g194eec73-win64
operating system: windows 10
graphic card: amd firepro w5100
monitor: dell up2715k (dual DP)

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hello and welcome to the forum!

Does your GPU have vulkan drivers? I a quick look reveals it came out in 2014, so it might not be supported.

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This is a screenshot of GPU software, I don’t see any reference to vulkan so probably not :frowning:

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I don’t think vkdt works without vulkan, sorry.

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vkdt depends definitely on vulkan.
On https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/ is a list of supported devices.

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From the provided link (thanks) vulkan should be supported, so I’ve cleaned up all drivers and reinstalled amd package. Now vulkan is there!

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Vkdt starts but clicking over any of the following module (“settings”, “collect”, …) nothing happens.

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Cmd shell output is:
PS C:\ProgrammiEXE\vkdt> .\vkdt
[gui] vkdt 0.9.99-287-g194eec73 (c) 2020–2024 johannes hanika
[gui] glfwGetVersionString() : 3.4.0 Win32 WGL Null EGL OSMesa MinGW-w64
[gui] monitor [0] Dell UP2715K (DP) at 0 0
[gui] vk extension required by GLFW:
[gui] VK_KHR_surface
[gui] VK_KHR_win32_surface
[gui] no joysticks found
[gui] no display profile file display.Dell UP2715K (DP), using sRGB!

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Perhaps problems with Win10?
I just downloaded the nightly (0.9.99-293-g83adafef). On my VM with Win10 vkdt didn’t even start, on my Win11 partition it did, just displaying “ignoring old hotkeys for lighttable, darkroom and nodes”, but only at the first start.

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yeah sorry rev. 0.9.99-287 had an issue with dpi scaling on windows, 0.9.99-293 should be workable and i’ll submit a better fix when i get some time. i don’t usually notice if things don’t work on windows so thanks for shouting out.

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Just downloaded fresh vkdt-rawler-0.9.99-298-g4fe69085-win64 and it works fine also in my system.
Thank you for releasing a windows version too, I know it is extra effort.

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