Godot does not start, a blank project manager window appears

Question

Hello, when starting Godot I encountered the following problem: An empty Project Manager window and another empty confirmation window appear. There are no errors written in the console. Tried to reinstall. If someone knows how to solve the problem, then help Please!!

Agitator

Answer 1

(1) What version of Godot is this?
(2) What kind of GPU do you have?

Some versions of Godot 4.x would do this if there was no Vulkan driver.

Significant

Answer 2

It's been a while since I used windows so I don't recall the exact folder structure under windows but you might want to try deleting the godot related files somewhere in appdata folders. There might be a corrupted settings file in there. But before that try launching godot from CLI and see if it doesn't throw some errors there. Such as an error relating to graphics API and any lacking driver support as mentioned by Helmer above.

Rasmussen

Answer 3

1). 4.2.1
2). OpenGl

Agitator

Answer 4

Vulcan driver installed

Agitator

Answer 5

I deleted everything I could, nothing helped.

Agitator

Answer 6

Agitator

Answer 7

Geforce 710m is Fermi 2.0 arch (released January 9th 2013) and afaik does not support vulkan. Try launching godot with the compatibility renderer(it's OpenGL). You can find the available launcher options listed here.

Strange thing is you should get a warning window telling you about missing vulkan support tho, like this. I'm not sure why you aren't getting one.

Rasmussen

Answer 8

Geforce 710m is Fermi 2.0 arch (released January 9th 2013) and afaik does not support vulkan.

It says here that it supports it:

Vulkan 1.1

But the official documentation, there's really no mention of Vulkan.

Logsdon

Answer 9

I don't think Vulkan is supported on a Fermi-gen chip.

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver

"NVIDIA provides full Vulkan 1.3 support and functionality on NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro graphics card with one of the following Ada Lovelace, Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal and Maxwell"

Fermi is not mentioned (Fermi came before the Pascal and Maxwell arch chips)

Vulkan didn't exist when the Fermi chips were designed.

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Answer 10

Related threads (issues with Vulkan drivers)

https://mcmap.net/q/102/godot-problems-launch-godot-4-1-many-ver

https://mcmap.net/q/2020/godot-godot-gives-me-vulkan-gpu-error-laptop-with-rtx-3050ti

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Answer 11

In short, I was able to fix the problem by updating the video card drivers. Thanks to everyone who tried to solve my problem. Godot has a great community

Agitator