CS:GO crashes before the logo appears

[Blackswan99]

Your system information

• System information from steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) in a gist: SysInfo
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large pastes as a Github Gist.

When I start CS:GO, the game starts and changes to video mode, where you expect the CS:GO logo, but it then crashes and falls back to desktop.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Starting the game
2. Wait for the desktop to appear again

[brandonpelfrey]

Since the last day or so, I'm having this issue as well. A black fullscreen appears (Good), but then crashes either immediately before the CSGO logo or just before any other content would be shown.

• Uploaded crash minidump ID (via journalctl -xe): CrashID=bp-43a91129-21db-430a-8094-27af92230623
• System information: https://gist.github.com/brandonpelfrey/f95bd30a038bc27ab2b2d70fd8e2bece
• crash is sigbus, exception address is @ 0x7f5a74053a18 which is mapped to /dev/shm/ValveIPCSHM_1000.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @brandonpelfrey, that's consistent with the issue being tracked at #3172.

[brandonpelfrey]

Thanks @kisak-valve . I can confirm that from looking at #3172 , the suggestion to disable the overlay reliably resolves the issue for me. If the overlay is off, I can consistently launch the game, if it is on, the game always crashes in the manner I provided above.

[FilterUnfiltered]

I have this issue too, except none of the suggested solutions work, including disabling overlay. I have had this issue a lot longer than both of these issues have been on here though. However, before yesterday, I could launch the game with ~5 failures before it worked. Now, however, it fails every single time.

[Fesiug]

One workaround is to rename or delete the videos folder

[programkeyj]

Same. But with -vulkan game starts.

[henrique-arthur]

One workaround is to rename or delete the videos folder

It worked only once, when I close the csgo and open it again it crashes

[wsfsbvchr]

It worked only once, when I close the csgo and open it again it crashes Do you have -novid in launch options?

[Wozza2014]

When the game starts to load and you come to a black screen try clicking the mouse all over the screen until the game loads. Seems to work for me. If I don't click with the mouse it just crashes to desktop.