Turns out that Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS has a library out of sync.[1] No Wayland use of Vulkan on LTS until mid-2024. Apparently fixed in Ubuntu 22.10.

Back to Xorg for now.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/80

The recently released nvidia 535 supposed to fix many wayland issues. Probably need to wait until it trickles down to your distro.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-535.54.03-Linux-Driver

Search with Google for "NVidia 525 driver not installing Ubuntu" for the sorry tale of NVidia 525 vs. Ubuntu and Mint. There's a dependency problem and the install fails. There is much discussion of workarounds. If you try this using the "additional drivers" GUI program, you get a dialog box with a big X and an "OK" button, but no message.

If you want to run Wayland on NVidia hardware, you need to be heavily into Linux system administration.