Steam games with linux runtimes don't work (Mint) (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Levi@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I've got a weird issue and figured I'd see if anybody knows how to fix it. I've noticed that most of my steam games that have linux native support just crash immediately when I try to run them. Running with Proton works just fine, but I was wondering if my system might be missing something obvious I need to run linux native games?

The latest one I was trying to play was Pyre. I tried looking through the logs, but couldn't find anything obvious to me.

Edit: Whatever it is, it looks like its not something simple, but that is okay because everything seems to work fine with proton anyway. Thanks for the help anyway! :)

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[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Try starting steam from the terminal. A lot of diagnostic info gets printed to stdout and stderr, which you can scroll through after a crash. Search up anything that looks like a serious error, it might point you in the right direction.

[-] Levi@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Weirdly enough, it did work that time, but froze the game when I tried to exit. I tried another time and it didn't run the game and gave some errors like:

[___](ERROR: ld.so: object '/REDACTED/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
)

and

Initializing steam
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 462770
free(): invalid pointer

and then a long stacktrace. No idea what it means.

[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

The LD_PRELOAD one is actually harmless and annoyingly spams everyone. Steam tries to preload the 32 and 64 bit overlay library into every process and depends on one or the other failing.

The free assert is bad and likely related to the crash. The stacktrace might be interesting if you want to share it.

The only cause that comes to mind is something like a libc conflict between the game and your graphics driver. That's going to be annoying to diagnose/fix though.

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Do you see any messages about gperftools? I had memory issues with another steam game (TF2) and it turned out to be a bug in gperftools.

[-] Levi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I just grepped the log for gperftools and came up with nothing.

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