Left 4 Dead 2 does not launch on linux

[MartinGggggggg]

Directly after clicking "play", the game is stuck forever when is says "Loading", but there is ever no progress at all. Also tried using launch options as: -novid -vulkan, but it makes no difference.

OS: openSUSE Slowroll Kernel: 6.9.7-1-default GPU: Radeon 7600 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Running the native Steam client from the official SUSE repo

[MartinGggggggg]

l4d2log.txt Forgot to attach a log

[Tiagoquix]

Are you using custom mods/add-ons? Are you testing the game in a clean state? Try launching with -autoconfig -default.

[MartinGggggggg]

Are you using custom mods/add-ons? Are you testing the game in a clean state? Try launching with -autoconfig -default.

No, I have not added anything myself, just a clean installation from Steam.

But anyway, I just removed the installation completely and downloaded again. Made a verification of the integrity of game files and tried again. Now, it crashes instead of stalling just before the picture attached earlier. The suggested options does not make any difference.

[NULLYUKI]

Is it possible for you to share a crash log?

[MartinGggggggg]

Is it possible for you to share a crash log?

Yes. I am not sure howto generare a crashlog, but I added "2>&1 | tee ~/l4d2_output.txt" as a launch option and captured the output into a file. Is this what you mean or is there another log with more info? l4d2_output.txt

[NULLYUKI]

I think the provided log is already good, but I'm not a Linux expert, so maybe some other users will later provide some more information if there is some other way, to gain much more information. But the current provided log should be helpful.

[MartinGggggggg]

I also started the game with strace and captured the output if that gives any more information l4d2_strace.txt

[Tiagoquix]

Can you test on an older kernel, such as 6.8?

[MartinGggggggg]

Can you test on an older kernel, such as 6.8?

I just tried 6.6.37-1-longterm, but the result is the same.

[MartinGggggggg]

I have also tried to run different versions of the steam linux runtime to see if one work better, but no luck. Now I get this message when I try to start "Unable to load /path_my_my_steam/steamapps/common/Left 4 Deam 2/bin/filesystem_steam.so" There is no such file in the installation

[MartinGggggggg]

I have tried to run the game through Proton too. The problem then is that the connection is blocked blocked from accessing the server. Can you remove this block so the game can be run in compatibility mode on linux if the native linux version is too hard to fix?

[Tiagoquix]

Source Engine games do not allow Proton versions to play on VAC-secured servers. You have to play with the native Linux version if you want to play online.