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i had lots of difficulties getting some games to launch when i used kernels 6.2 and older, and flatpak steam.
the problem disappeared but i was never sure which thing fixed it, getting steam from apt or newer kernel (xanmod 6.6 then, xanmod 6.12 now, mint default 6.8 worked too).
maybe gpu related too, i also have 3060ti and it's been garbage since new. weirdly enough it works better in linux than it did on windoze...
If important to verify, I have my logs from running steam in terminal here:
chdir "/home/myuser/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Overwatch"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/myuser/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/myuser/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/myuser/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/myuser/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 2357570, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 1119 for gameID 2357570
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/myuser/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Adding process 1120 for gameID 2357570
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 3394 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 3394 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2498 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Adding process 1121 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1210 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1211 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1212 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1213 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1216 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1218 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1221 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1231 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1245 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1251 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1264 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1281 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 1294 for gameID 2357570
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=2357570]
Removing process 1294 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1281 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1264 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1251 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1245 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1231 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1221 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1218 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1216 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1213 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1212 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1211 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1210 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1121 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1120 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 1119 for gameID 2357570
Some of those might look a bit conerning but they seem to show up for games that work also.
a wild guess: try setting LD_PRELOAD="" %command% Im on mobile and cannot look things up properly but that fixed some weird behaviour for me
Launch the game with the PROTON_LOG=1. It will create a log in your home directory.
I did that, but it did not produce any logs either :(
Apparently if you're using the flatpak it'll actually be in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/
Does it work in non-flatpak steam?
I did not try that, but I did try battle.net tjrough bottles and I get a similar issue. Does not launch , no errors.
Have you checked protondb to see if there are any fixes suggested there? If I remember correctly flatpak steam causes a lot of problems. You could try flatseal to see which permissions steam has, maybe sth is interfering?
the only thing I saw was changing some launch options, and none of the mworked unfortunately.