This is driving me crazy. I’m trying to run BG3 and I’m running into a variety of errors:
My step up:
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTSKERNEL: 6.2.0-26-generic CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100, LLVM 15.0.7, DRM 3.49, 6.2.0-26-generic) GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 23.3git2308230600.fbf3f6oibaf~j (git-fbf3f64 2023-08-23 jammy-oi RAM: 63 GB
One seems to be this for which I feel I’ve tried every googable solution:
You must install .NET to run this application.
App: Z:\home\peafield.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Launche r\LariLauncher.exe Architecture: x64 App host version: 6.0.18 .NET location: Not found
Learn about runtime installation: https://aka.ms/dotnet/app-launch-failed
Another is this:
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/peafield/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
But I’m not even sure what this points to now.
Can anyone help? Or is anyone going through something similar with a similar set up?
EDIT: The solution, as many of you suggested, was to just change distros. I’d heard good things about Fedora so I tried it and everything ran first time with no tweaking! Thank you everyone for the advice.
LTS is your problem, it has too old stuff (kernel, drivers) for the sake of stability, never good for games, especially new ones.
If you want to stick with Ubuntu, you need the normal one, or change distro as you said, Fedora is good, Linux Mint is also really good and based on Ubuntu, if you want something more similar to what you’re used to.
Yeah this is what I ended up doing. Switched to Fedora and everything works perfectly! I’ve only been using Linux for about 6 months so I’m still getting my feet wet.
So I’ve tested it thoroughly and it turns out I can’t run any games except ones like FTL. It’s very weird and I’m exhausted by it!
For the second one, try turning off steam overlay for this game. For the first, are you running the game with Proton enabled?
Weirdly I cannot toggle the steam overlay on it is greyed out but I believe it is off. And I have Compatability > For the use of… ticked and proton experimental selected.
Here’s what I did on launch day to bypass the .NET issue.
I’m on a Steam Deck running Steam OS, so you may have to adjust this a bit to your distro, but that is what worked for me.
I think I recall having issues with Proton Experimental.
I think I am using the last stable Proton 8.something.
Tried the last GE-Proton as well but also had some issues.
Another thing, I think during the first launch, some Directx installs did fail or took long and I killed the processes.
Though, the game always started fine for me, and I disabled the Launcher at the first occasion, now all is good.
Also, I had some other issues with Steam lately, and I tried the Beta version of the client, all my issues are fixed, you could try that as well.
I think this is exactly the issue I’m having. The launcher is failing to launch. How did you get around this and kill the launcher and just start the game?
I don’t exactly remember, but I know that I had the launcher running for the first times, and in it, I disabled it so the game launches right away.
One thing I had in a different game, was a edge process (certainly to fetch news or something) that failed and that was the process I had to kill so I could see the launcher.
I use btop in the terminal to show processes and I filter with the approximate name of the process I want.
If you don’t know the executable name, you can filter steam and it’ll show steam and the sub-processes that are running.
From there, you can simply select edgeUpdate ( I think that was that) or DirectXInstall (both used to cause me problem when launching games for the first time) and use the kill button and see if the game launches.
