Often caused by immature or buggy Vulkan drivers, especially on (found in many Android phones) or older GPU Overload:
Windows has a watchdog called TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery). If your GPU takes more than 2 seconds to render a single frame, Windows assumes the GPU is frozen and kills the process. dolphin vk error device lost work
Turn off the in User Settings > Game Overlay. Close monitoring tools like RivaTuner or MSI Afterburner . Often caused by immature or buggy Vulkan drivers,
The graphics processor may hang or "timeout" if it takes too long to process a frame, leading the OS to reset the device. API Conflicts: Close monitoring tools like RivaTuner or MSI Afterburner
means the communication between Dolphin and your graphics card was suddenly severed. From the GPU’s perspective, it received an instruction that was impossible to execute (a timeout, an illegal operation, or a memory overload). To protect itself from crashing your entire computer, the GPU driver resets the connection—hence, the device is "lost."
Back up your registry before proceeding.