No game will launch - ubuntu 18.04

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Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

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No game will launch - ubuntu 18.04 #578

Closed asim-vax closed 6 years ago

asim-vax commented 6 years ago

Hoping someone can point me to a simple mistake i've made - tried 2 games The Last Remnant (whitelisted by Valve) Final Fantasy VII (whitelisted https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcZZQ4HL_Ol969UbXJmFG8TzOHNnHoj8Q1f8DIFe8-8/htmlview?sle=true#) both games go to "preparing to launch" then in steam "running" no window opens and then it goes back to normal

Enabled steam play in steam client and enabled steam play for all games, tried 3.7.3 and 3.7.4-beta
Nvidia driver 396.54, vulkan installed (WoW with DXVK plays)
esync /etc/security updated username soft nofile 204800 and username hard nofile 204800
ubuntu 18.04
python -V // Python 2.7.15rc1 and python3 is already the newest version (3.6.5-3ubuntu1)
system wine // wine --version wine-3.14 (Staging)

kormic commented 6 years ago

I don't think you need wine installed (just saying) I had the same problem cause I had installed ubuntu with minimal installation. My solution was to install python (version 2.7). Also you could try to enable logs through proton user settings in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton3.7/user_setting.sample.py and see if there are any logs in your home folder name steam-steam_app_id.log

asim-vax commented 6 years ago

Was just trying to provide all system information that could be relevant :) sudo apt install python2.7 python2.7 is already the newest version (2.7.15~rc1-1).

There is no Proton3.7 folder created in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common which is what concerns me that i'm doing something dumb

michaelwerkel commented 6 years ago

You should tick all checkboxes under the Steam Play category, or the Proton folder won't appear, I guess. When you installed the games on an external NTFS harddrive, then there could be some permission issues.

asim-vax commented 6 years ago

screenshot from 2018-08-25 22-45-31 They are and ff vii is installed to my main ubuntu drive ext4 format, the last remnant installed to exfat HDD (tried both formats)

flukejones commented 6 years ago

Under "Compatibility tool" select the latest beta version. If that fails, start steam via a terminal and check what the output is (may or may not be Python 2.7 not installed if using first release).

felisucoibi commented 6 years ago

Hi, are you using a laptop with to graphics cards and using hdmi? Bests

asim-vax commented 6 years ago

tried with the beta, makes no difference - Tried starting steam via the terminal, but no output after launching the client:

You are in the 'publicbeta' client beta.
[2018-08-26 09:13:08] Verifying installation...
[2018-08-26 09:13:08] Verification complete

I click play game, but nothing is output to the terminal

Not using a laptop, desktop with nvidia gtx 1060, 396.54 drivers

kormic commented 6 years ago

OK, this happened also to me (not finding the Proton folder). Try to opt-out from the beta, uninstall steam completely and try from the beginning. In my case this worked.

To uninstall steam:

sudo apt-get remove steam
sudo apt-get purge steam
rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam && rm -rf ~/.steam

asim-vax commented 6 years ago

@kormic tyvm, this was the issue - i hope this doesn't affect more people as it was the most infuriating thing!