I can't launch games on Steam for some reason, at least Windows games using Proton. I even reinstalled Steam several times, but nothing has changed. My distro is Pop OS. Here's what happens when I try launching Vanquish for example:
chdir "/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Vanquish"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 460810, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 63931 for gameID 460810
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Adding process 63932 for gameID 460810
Adding process 63933 for gameID 460810
Adding process 63934 for gameID 460810
setlocale "fi_FI.UTF-8": No such file or directory
pv-locale-gen: Missing locale fi_FI.UTF-8 (found in $LC_ADDRESS)
pv-locale-gen: Generating locale fi_FI.UTF-8...
pv-locale-gen: Generated locale fi_FI.UTF-8 successfully
pv-locale-gen: Generating locale en_US.UTF-8...
pv-locale-gen: Generated locale en_US.UTF-8 successfully
pv-adverb[64004]: W: Container startup will be faster if missing locales are created at OS level
Adding process 64042 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64045 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64046 for gameID 460810
fsync: up and running.
Adding process 64047 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64050 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64052 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64056 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64068 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64074 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64081 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64113 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64122 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64125 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64132 for gameID 460810
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/shadercache/460810/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
pid 64048 != 64047, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=460810]
Removing process 64132 for gameID 460810
This has something to do with Steam's overlay, even though I have disabled it. Help is welcome.
My GPU is GeForce 1070 and I naturally use Nvidia's Linux drivers. My CPU is AMD Ryzen 7 1700. So I highly doubt my hardware is quirky in any way.
I changed my client to a beta version and enabled the new experimental SteamRT3 Steam Client, as suggested. I have not enabled the Steam Overlay.
Here's what happens:
Proton 9 results
Proton 10
And pretty much the same for Proton-GE 10-34.
Ok, I just did an entire write up and then shit canned it half way through because there's a question I need to ask.
... which... ones?
Because PopOS has its own way of doing Nvidia drivers.
https://system76.com/support/articles/system76-driver
If you are manually trying to do your own Nvidia Linux driver install, on PopOS, that could cause some nonsense problems, where you would be in a state of essentially having 2, or kinda 1 and a half... sets of drivers installed at the same time, which would/could lead to bunch of extremely esoteric configuration problems, possibly including what you've reported so far.
I installed System76's Nvidia drivers, but then my second display couldn't work, and I read online that it's a common problem. Then I manually installed Nvidia's closed source driver instead, and now my second display works all fine.
EDIT: Now the game booted!
So you either get two monitors, or one that can actually play games... ? lol?
I have to imagine that somehow, this is the fault of X and/or Wayland ... but anyway, I'm glad that at least the game is working now.
Now dont change anything, lol.