HELP! BG3 failing to launch on Steam (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Peafield@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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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 23.3~git2308230600.fbf3f6~oibaf~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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[-] ulu_mulu@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ulu_mulu@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's ok, making mistakes is the best way to learn, we all made them :)

[-] gerbilOFdoom@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

For the second one, try turning off steam overlay for this game. For the first, are you running the game with Proton enabled?

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Weirdly I cannot toggle the steam overlay on it is greyed out but I believe it is off. And I have Compatability > For the use of... ticked and proton experimental selected.

[-] gerbilOFdoom@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Try switching to a different proton? You'll also need to use Vulkan drivers

[-] morgan_423@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you, for some reason even that didn't work

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I presume you’ve already done the obvious like verifying file integrity and making sure proton experimental is set as the runner?

[-] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I'm going to try this.

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 btop in 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 steam and it'll show steam and the sub-processes that are running.
From there, you can simply select edgeUpdate ( I think that was that) or DirectXInstall (both used to cause me problem when launching games for the first time) and use the kill button and see if the game launches.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Okay I'll try that too! Thanks!

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago

Finally, did you manage to run the game?

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I did, but only by installing another distro (Fedora).

[-] wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I could not get Lutris to run at all. It kept on crashing.

[-] wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Did you download it via Snaps or Flatpak?

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Snaps I believe

[-] wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Okay. Do you have Wine installed?

Wine can potentially help resolve the .exe and .NET errors that you’re experiencing.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I do have wine installed yeah

[-] Mastershelf@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago

If you add --skiplauncher to the launch options it skips the launcher and boots straight to the game. That might solve your problem.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

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!

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

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.)

[-] Rogueren@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sounds like Steam and Proton may be broken. do sudo apt purge steam and 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

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