Steam games don't run (Native and via Proton)

sdr · 12 August 2022 16:44

Native games like Hollow Night and non-native games like Ori and the Blind Forest and Rain world (which are gold rated on ProtonDB) don’t launch.
I’ve tried:

Changing Proton versions
Downloading steam-native
Changing Kernel versions from 5.15.59-1(LTS) to 5.19.0-2
Updating nvidia driver (heres the mhwd -li command output)

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                                         NAME                     VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
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          video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2021.12.18               false            PCI

Steam games still just refuse to launch

Here’s the logs i got after launching steam through terminal:

[2022-08-12 19:35:33] Manifest download: send request
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1658944613)
[2022-08-12 19:35:33] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2022-08-12 19:35:34] Manifest download: finished
[2022-08-12 19:35:34] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1658944613, installed version 1658944613, existing pending version 0
[2022-08-12 19:35:34] Nothing to do
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1658944613)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1658944613)
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to ProcessingInstallScript with ""
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingCloud with ""
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to SiteLicenseSeatCheckout with ""
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to CreatingProcess with ""
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to CreatingProcess ""
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp continues with user response "CreatingProcess"
/bin/sh\0-c\0/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=367520 -- '/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Hollow Knight/hollow_knight.x86_64'\0
chdir /home/sid/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Hollow Knight
Game process added : AppID 367520 "/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=367520 -- '/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Hollow Knight/hollow_knight.x86_64'", ProcID 4454, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
GameAction [AppID 367520, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
Found path: /home/sid/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Hollow Knight/hollow_knight.x86_64
Loading in SingleInstance mode
*** MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR is deprecated; use MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR instead ***
*** MESA_GLSL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE is deprecated; use MESA_SHADER_CACHE_MAX_SIZE instead ***
Game process removed: AppID 367520 "/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=367520 -- '/home/sid/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Hollow Knight/hollow_knight.x86_64'", ProcID 4454 
ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 4455
Uploaded AppInterfaceStats to Steam

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lectrode · 12 August 2022 17:10

glibc updates broke any game that uses EAC, as well as some native games that do not (like Shovel Knight).

Please refer to the Known Issues and Solutions wiki post on the latest Stable Update announcement thread for the current workaround.

This may or may not be the issue for the other games mentioned.

fumum_vendidi · 12 August 2022 18:15

Did these games work before on your PC with Manjaro or a you new to Manjaro Linux?

If you own a laptop with hybrid Intel / Nvidia GPU I personally cannot recommend bumblebee. I would use PRIME or Optimus-Manager instead (bumblebee must be uninstalled).
I prefer PRIME but you have to modify each game‘s startup options in steam or in the starter if it is a non-steam game or application with the prefix “prime-run”.

megavolt · 12 August 2022 18:23

I guess it is a vulkan problem…

In case of Hollow Knight try add this this parameter: %command% -force-opengl

Prime-run will not work with bumblebee (switching GPU GLX) … for such an older GPU you need custom xorg files… maybe search on the forum for optimus-manager @Olli there you get some infos how to switch.

However… your intel gpu might not have full support for vulkan and therefore it does not start. OpenGL on the other hand could work.

sdr · 13 August 2022 18:49

Using that parameter did work out and I can play Hollow Knight. So thanks.
I also tried searching for optimus manager but I’m not quite sure what it does and I’m confused right now. Am I supposed to install a different driver and use that? If so where can I find it? Also what do I have to do for custom xorg files?

fumum_vendidi · 13 August 2022 19:51

You can try optimus-manager-qt as a graphical switch. It is in the AUR.

What graphics does your computer actually have? The driver is pretty old so the pc and videocard probably are old, too!?

megavolt · 14 August 2022 06:01

The only purpose for this program is switching between GPUs on a hybrid setup.

Not really. mhwd installs a configuration plus the driver. The driver is the same.

That is more experienced users since you can customize a lot of things. I would rather suggest looking for the optimus-manager.

For example:

Of course you need to install the application first:

pamac build optimus-manager-qt
sudo systemctl enable --now optimus-manager.service

Olli · 14 August 2022 07:03

@megavolt

i experienced that the optimus-manager-qt package can cause misbehaviour. a simple and really bullet-proof way ist to do the following steps:

a) install optimus-manager from the packet-manager
b) activate with sudo systemctl enable optimus-manager
c) open a editor with sudo-rights and edit /etc/default/grub
add to the entry GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" the following to the existing entries

optimus-manager.startup=nvidia nvidia_drm.modeset=1

d) after editing open a console and run the following

sudo update-grub
sudo mkinitcpio -P

e) do a reboot
f) after reboot enable the following service

sudo systemctl enable nvidia-persistenced

g) you can either start the service with sudo systemctl start nvidia-persistenced
or to be on the safe side and do another reboot (windows-style )

P.S.: from that point up you do have a working system with active-nvidia that is 100% working and then it’s up to you if you want to dig deeper with hybrid-mode (that depends on the hardware, sometimes no problem up to total-nightmare) and so forth, but the main problem for i think almost everyone is to get this nvidia-stuff first running and from there you are able to modify it in any way you want.

sdr · 14 August 2022 08:45

I was able to get it working. And I can play Hollow Knight using the “%command% -force-opengl”.
Proton still doesn’t work but i guess that’s caused by something else. Thanks for the help

megavolt · 14 August 2022 08:56

Look: “Hollow Knight” uses vulkan by default. Older Intel GPUs are only partially compatible. Therefore you need to force using opengl. Same for proton. Proton uses vulkan aswell by default.

When you set PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% then it will use opengl.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-options

But NVIDIA GPUs are normally fully compatible with vulkan. Therefore, if you want to play with a decent performance, you need to switch to the nvidia gpu. See what @Olli writes.

sdr · 14 August 2022 09:08

I switched to the nvidia gpu and tried to play Rain World through proton. I tried it with and without that command. I still doesn’t launch.

Olli · 14 August 2022 09:10

please open a console and post the output of

glxinfo | grep server

sdr · 14 August 2022 09:10

server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:

Olli · 14 August 2022 09:11

and what is the output of

systemctl status nvidia-persistenced

sdr · 14 August 2022 09:12

● nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; enabled;>
Active: active (running) since Sun 2022-08-14 12:00:26 +03; 11min ago
Process: 365 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced>
Main PID: 367 (nvidia-persiste)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 14200)
Memory: 10.6M
CPU: 2.012s
CGroup: /system.slice/nvidia-persistenced.service
└─367 /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced

Aug 14 12:00:26 sidotre systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon…
Aug 14 12:00:26 sidotre nvidia-persistenced[367]: Started (367)
Aug 14 12:00:26 sidotre systemd[1]: Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon.

Olli · 14 August 2022 09:13

you activated nvidia and the direct rendering mode as explained above in the grub ?

sdr · 14 August 2022 09:14

yes. Also my gpu is Geforce GT 635M. Is this happening because my gpu is so old?

Olli · 14 August 2022 09:15

what is the output of

nvidia-smi | grep Driver

sdr · 14 August 2022 09:15

| NVIDIA-SMI 390.154 Driver Version: 390.154 |

Olli · 14 August 2022 09:18

well i do believe so, this card is aged 10 years old and you wanna play games in decent quality ? i think you’re expectations are way above reality, sorry buddy but that doesn’t match together. you might play these games but it won’t be a pleasure

your nvidia driver is now set to the maximum that you can get out of it.