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Be more explicit to the user if their GPU does not support Vulkan 1.3+ #5425

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@arielj

Problem description

Currently, it's not clear for users when they cannot use modern DXVK when their GPU does not support Vulkan 1.3+.

Most of the times they end up asking for support and someone has to know their GPU is old or maybe something shows up in the logs.

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Since we already check the vulkan support we could use that information and display it in better places than the general logs.

I imagine:

  • this PR adds Proton-Sarek, we would pick this as the default proton on new installs
  • we can display a warning in the GE-Proton tab in the wine manager
  • we can display a warning if GE-Proton is selected in the Wine Version selector for games and games defaults
  • we can store this check result somewhere global and print that information also in the game logs if GE-Proton is used to run a game
  • maybe there are more places where this can be useful

This should make it way more user-friendly.

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Another option could be to even hide GE-Proton, but I don't like hiding things from users because they think something is not working, a warning explaining they should us it is probably better.

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