Not sure what's wrong here ... # rpm -qpl nvidia-gl-G06-545.29.06-19.3.x86_64.rpm | grep vulkan [...] /etc/vulkan /etc/vulkan/icd.d /etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json /etc/vulkan/implicit_layer.d /etc/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/nvidia_layers.json # cat NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-545.29.06/README.txt [...] The Vulkan ICD configuration file is installed as '/etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json'. An additional Vulkan layer configuration file is installed as '/etc/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/nvidia_layers.json'. These layers add functionality to the Vulkan loader. [...] Don't know why "$VK_ICD_FILENAMES needs to be set ...