Ubuntu 18.04 Cannot find a compatible Vulkan device or driver

Hello, I’m running UE4 on MX150 with Linux Mint Tessa(Ubuntu 18.04). After I finish my installation with the “make” command, when I try to start UE4editor it pops up a window says:

“Cannot find a compatible Vulkan device or driver. Try updating your video card to a more recent version and make sure your video card supports Vulkan.”

My driver is nvidia-390.116, since the minimum required GPU driver version of UE4 is Nvidia-340, I don’t think my driver is the problem. To be safe, I’ve installed Nvidia-410, tried Noveau, both in vain. Currently I’m running with 390.116.

And according to Nvidia’s guide, MX150 supports Vulkan but still occures this problem. Could anyone help? It’s a little in urgency. Thanks!

I am having the same issue with Linux Mint 19.1 and a GTX 820m. The only way I was able to tackle this issue was installing the latest 415 or 418 nvidia drivers, but then I experienced a lot of video and audio issues all over the place. It would be nice to know how to manage this.

A way I found in order to avoid this issue and work with the Unreal Editor without messing around with graphic drivers (I am on open source drivers shipped with Linux Mint) is to launch the editor with the opengl4 flag. In this way the Vulkan requirement is skipped and the editor can start properly.
Using the terminal reach the linux binaries folder ~/UnrealEngine/Engine/Binaries/Linux and then use this code in order to launch the editor under Opengl4 ./UE4Editor -opengl4

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