This isn't a guide, just something i think may help. To install Steam on an Arch-based distro in most of the cases a simple sudo pacman -S steam will do just fine.
The installation will ask you to select a valid vulkan package from a list. And in most of the cases that's just fine... most of them.
Then you have your very "picky" old nvidia GPU which works only with a specific old nvidia driver and if you try to install anything else, there will be a conflict. Now you can try to remove the old (working) drivers and try your luck. But looking online i find a simple way to skip this passage and install Steam.
sudo pacman -S steam --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver
Is there an issue with dkms driver? It worked fine for me for over a year on my 3070 until I upgraded to AMD
Oh. I was referring to the Nvidia dkms. I had absolutely no issues with the upgrade/changeover to AMD. Just put the new card in and it booted right up; didn't even have to uninstall the Nvidia drivers.