The game crashes when opening

[pietrocrepaldi]

i have a Intel Arc a770 I don't understand the problem since my GPU supports raytracing and patch tracing
I have had this problem since the release of the mod and I see that other people besides me have this problem too, I would like to know if there is a solution or if there will be a future correction update for this problem.

[vb87]

the game worked for me before, does not work now, I assume it's because of the Half-Life 25th anniversary update that has broken it, someone could do a fork and fix this if the original author is no longer active on this mod

Edit: I am getting the same error as you, and also I tested an older version of Half-Life with which it should have worked, so this could be either a Windows or Vulkan/Nvidia driver update issue

[vb87]

I found a fix. This is NVidia driver issue. Downloaded and installed this driver:
https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/vulkan-beta-53809-windows

But the game has other issues with the new HL update - patches of light across walls. I fixed it by getting an earlier version of Half-Life, you can do it like this, open steam console by typing this in your browser's address bar:
steam://open/console

in console type in these commands one by one, waiting on each turn until it shows that the file has been downloaded:
download_depot 70 1 5928322771446233610
download_depot 70 2 2139852524811213490
download_depot 70 71 9183617604528345869
download_depot 70 96 6298465564582633871

it will output destination directory in console, go to each of those depot folders and copy all files to one directory of your choice, replacing whatever needs being replaced, and doing it in the order that they were downloaded.
Now copy "rt_bin" and "rt" xash-rt mod folders from steam HL installation to the directory with old Half-Life files that you created.
Now go and start /rt_bin/xash3d.exe from the new folder.
Works again.

Edit:
As to original poster - I missed that it's some Intel card, so perhaps finding another driver version would also fix that issue, this appears to be some sort of problem with vulkan drivers, it's probably a bug in xash-rt, but some versions of vulkan drivers handle it.

[brokenshas]

does this work on AMD Ryzen 5 5500 with AMD Radeon Graphics Driver?