HELP! BG3 failing to launch on Steam
This is driving me crazy. I'm trying to run BG3 and I'm running into a variety of errors:
My step up:
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3
LTSKERNEL: 6.2.0-26-generic
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100, LLVM 15.0.7, DRM 3.49, 6.2.0-26-generic)
GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 23.3git2308230600.fbf3f6oibaf~j (git-fbf3f64 2023-08-23 jammy-oi
RAM: 63 GB
One seems to be this for which I feel I've tried every googable solution:
You must install .NET to run this application.
App: Z:\home\peafield.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Launche r\LariLauncher.exe Architecture: x64 App host version: 6.0.18 .NET location: Not found
Learn about runtime installation: https://aka.ms/dotnet/app-launch-failed
Another is this:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/peafield/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
But I'm not even sure what this points to now.
Can anyone help? Or is anyone going through something similar with a similar set up?
EDIT: The solution, as many of you suggested, was to just change distros. I'd heard good things about Fedora so I tried it and everything ran first time with no tweaking! Thank you everyone for the advice.
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So I've tested it thoroughly and it turns out I can't run any games except ones like FTL. It's very weird and I'm exhausted by it!
LTS is your problem, it has too old stuff (kernel, drivers) for the sake of stability, never good for games, especially new ones.
If you want to stick with Ubuntu, you need the normal one, or change distro as you said, Fedora is good, Linux Mint is also really good and based on Ubuntu, if you want something more similar to what you're used to.
Yeah this is what I ended up doing. Switched to Fedora and everything works perfectly! I've only been using Linux for about 6 months so I'm still getting my feet wet.
That's ok, making mistakes is the best way to learn, we all made them :)
Here's what I did on launch day to bypass the .NET issue.
I'm on a Steam Deck running Steam OS, so you may have to adjust this a bit to your distro, but that is what worked for me.
Thank you, for some reason even that didn't work
ProtonTricks may be the app for your problem. It can run Winetricks specifically targeting the prefixes that Steam sets up for each individual game. Soo, (I do not have BG3) run Protontricks, pick the game, wait, find that Winetricks starts off at a really awkward point in its UI, pick add an application, cancel, find yourself at a better menu, choose "Install a Windows DLL or component", and check off the appropriate dot net version.
I'm going to try this.
I think I recall having issues with Proton Experimental.
I think I am using the last stable Proton 8.something.
Tried the last GE-Proton as well but also had some issues.
Another thing, I think during the first launch, some Directx installs did fail or took long and I killed the processes.
Though, the game always started fine for me, and I disabled the Launcher at the first occasion, now all is good.
Also, I had some other issues with Steam lately, and I tried the Beta version of the client, all my issues are fixed, you could try that as well.
I think this is exactly the issue I'm having. The launcher is failing to launch. How did you get around this and kill the launcher and just start the game?
I don't exactly remember, but I know that I had the launcher running for the first times, and in it, I disabled it so the game launches right away.
One thing I had in a different game, was a edge process (certainly to fetch news or something) that failed and that was the process I had to kill so I could see the launcher.
I use
btopin the terminal to show processes and I filter with the approximate name of the process I want.If you don't know the executable name, you can filter
steamand it'll show steam and the sub-processes that are running.From there, you can simply select
edgeUpdate( I think that was that) orDirectXInstall(both used to cause me problem when launching games for the first time) and use thekillbutton and see if the game launches.Okay I'll try that too! Thanks!
Finally, did you manage to run the game?
I did, but only by installing another distro (Fedora).
I don't have BG3 installed, but I have had some weird issues when using Steam lately. Have you tried using Lutris to launch the game?
That was one of the things I tried today and I couldn't get Lutris to run! I'm wondering if something is fundamentally wrong with my Ubuntu install
We’re you able to download the game via Steam? And if so, what method did you use to launch it via Lutris? Did you try launching it by accessing a file?
Try looking in: ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common
I could not get Lutris to run at all. It kept on crashing.
Did you download it via Snaps or Flatpak?
Snaps I believe
Okay. Do you have Wine installed?
Wine can potentially help resolve the .exe and .NET errors that you’re experiencing.
I do have wine installed yeah
If you add --skiplauncher to the launch options it skips the launcher and boots straight to the game. That might solve your problem.
so it turns out that no games run on steam! The only thing I can get to work is minecraft at the moment, and that doesn't use steam!
Did you enable proton? I seem to remember sometimes having to enable it for all games manually
Minecraft runs because Minecraft is Java and runs natively
You can actually play steam games through lutris I think, last I checked there was an option for connecting steam
That said I think most people save for the most diehard FOSS people would probably rather use steam for steam games
@zelifcam Steam+Proton doesn't work out of the box for everyone. I have two laptops with different hardware/OSs, and I run into compatibility issues on one system that I don't encounter on the other when attempting to launch the same games.
While I do agree that Steam+Proton provides excellent support - there are cases when Lutris+Wine and Bottles run better into certain configurations.
99% of the time, that means SteamOS is getting sleeby and needs a reboot. (Some component of wine or something is not very good at cleaning up itself. You could try to chase it down, but trust me just rebooting is easier. Welcome to Linux.)
Sounds like Steam and Proton may be broken. do
sudo apt purge steamand then delete all your Proton prefixes in I think its~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata(the folders will all be game ID numbers) then reinstall Steam and try again. I'm running the game with the launcher on Pop!_OS 22.04 which is Ubuntu based and have no problems. However I set in the launcher to use Vulkan instead of DirectX