Steam Deck crash on startup since winit 0.30 update

[GitGhillie]

Bevy version

Since #13366

[Optional] Relevant system information

Building on Windows 10, uploaded to Steam Deck.

What you did

Built on Windows using cargo build --example 3d_scene. Then uploaded the .exe to the Deck using the Devkit tools, and executed on the Deck like a normal game. Nothing is attached to my Deck except power.

What went wrong

Crash on startup. I see the following for 1 frame before the app shows a black screen.

This does not seem to show up in ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/console-linux.txt so if anyone knows a way to capture this properly please let me know!

Additional information

I did stumble upon #15193 at some point before starting a bisect, but I dismissed it because I'm not getting anything to display at all. So feel free to close if duplicate.

[GitGhillie]

The winit window example seems to run without issue, so I'm not sure where to go from here

[rparrett]

Not a steam deck person, but curious to know what would happen with

DefaultPlugins.set(RenderPlugin {
    render_creation: RenderCreation::Automatic(WgpuSettings {
        backends: Some(Backends::VULKAN),
        ..default()
    }),
    ..default()
}),

I assume dx12 stuff is expected to work though?

[GitGhillie]

Ok so I tried setting the backend:
Bevy main:
Vulkan: I don't see any errors in the 1 frame I can see the console, after that it's just a black screen. Sometimes I also saw the 3d_scene for 1 frame before going black.
DX12: Error as posted before.

Commit before the winit update:
Vulkan: OK
DX12: Also errors, didn't check if it was the same error though. Let me know if that would be useful

Interestingly, if I set the backend to Vulkan in my flappy bird clone (bevy 0.15) it works great... but seeing that 3d_scene doesn't work it might not be a stable workaround.

[NathanTaylorHunt]

Re capturing logs/crash info, my method has been to use panic::set_hook to capture the panic information and a custom log layer for capturing everything else. For my project I have it show a dialog box when the game crashes and then it dumps the logs to a txt file, this has been invaluable during testing. This works great on Windows (and by extension SteamDeck), idk enough about to macos and linux to say whether it's a good cross-platform strategy.