Native Steam client and source game engine

Dwosky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Nov 2018 Posts: 139

I've found a curious behavior with Steam Client installed using the multilib procedure, not sure if its normal or not, but it seems the Steam Cloud sync its slow as hell.

In Windows it takes a couple of seconds to establish connection and the transfer speed its not really great, but on Gentoo it goes at 20-50Bits/s max from what I've seen. Has anyone seen this issue as well?

From my little knowledge I believe it runs slower due to using Gentoo's lib instead of the precompiled Ubuntu ones, but its curious that while downloading a game it goes pretty well, but the sync takes a lot longer than usual.

sao98021 · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:32 pm Post subject:

what happens when you run steam-proton on a gpu without vulkan support =

The Main Man · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:47 pm Post subject:

I have problems with two games, they don't launch, in both games I get this error :

ericbish · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2018 Posts: 30

Just got done migrating to the 17.1 profile. Steam no longer runs. I ran it just before beginning, so it was the 17.1 migration that broke it. Anybody else been through this or had same issue? The Steam clients starts up just fine, but when I try and run Borderlands2......it starts to load then sigfaults.

The errors I see in the terminal are:

gentoo gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32)

ericbish · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2018 Posts: 30

halcon · l33t Joined: 15 Dec 2019 Posts: 649

Hi.

This topic is still actual, isn't it?

I had success in installing and playing Skyrim Special Edition via Lutris-Steam-Proton.

So far, the game with multiple addons runs fast on ultra settings with my Radeon RX 580, the sound works flawlessly with my pure ALSA (no pulseadio). No freezes/crashes. No sound issues.

I need to tell that I had not been able to resolve two sound issues (crackling; ambient/NPC voices non-audible) via WineSteam without Lutris, then via Lutris-WineSteam-dxvk, then via Lutris-WineSteam-faudio. The current option (Lutris-Steam-Proton) has a special script for that - install-audio-fix.sh. I ran it and voila, the sound is OK now.

The whole installation process of the current option was not always straightforward, but not so difficult.

In short, I did the following:

1) re-emerged media-libs/mesa with [vulkan] flag, emerged media-libs/vulkan-loader and dev-util/vulkan-tools (contains a tool vulkaninfo for testing whether vulkan works)

2) installed games-util/steam-meta (which has all the necessary packages as deps) from steam-overlay

3) installed games-util/lutris

4) registered at lutris.net, went to https://lutris.net/games/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition/ and clicked there "Add to my library"

5) launched the Lutris client, logged in, waited until appears "the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition", added at the previous step, then clicked "install" and chose the option with Proton

6) when the installation process freezed (with "breakpad exception" messages in the terminal), launched the Steam client (I already had a Steam account and Skyrim SE added into it), went to Skyrim SE properties, clicked "Force the use of the specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and chose Proton 4.11-10

7) assured that Proton installed properly (there must appear a full WINEPREFIX at the path ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 4.11/dist/share/default_pfx), after what Skyrim SE became available for downloading in the Linux version of Steam

8 ) downloaded Skyrim SE in the Steam client

9) ran for the pure ALSA:
env WINEPREFIX="~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 4.11/dist/share/default_pfx" WINEPATH="~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 4.11/dist/bin/wine64" winetricks sound=alsa
(usual app-emulation/winetricks from the main Gentoo repo)

10) ran for the sound:
cd ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/audiofix
./install-audio-fix.sh

11) found the directory for the game saves at ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/Skyrim Special Edition/Saves and the config file Skyrim.ini at one folder up (though this config file seems to be not working; the working one is at ~/My Games/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition)

12) for managing mods: installed in a separate WINEPREFIX Vortex Mod Manager from https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1?tab=files; it is important to choose the option "custom install location"; requires adding corefonts and dotnet 4.6; Vortex must be installed on the same hdd/sdd partition as the game

13) for SKSE mod (requires the manual installation):
- downloaded skse64_2_00_17.7z from https://skse.silverlock.org , uncompressed to a temporary folder
- copied skse64_loader.exe, skse64_steam_loader.dll, skse64_1_5_97.dll to the folder ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition
- renamed ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/SkyrimSELauncher.exe to SkyrimSENative.exe
- renamed ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/skse64_loader.exe to SkyrimSELauncher.exe
- created SKSE folder inside the folder ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/Data
- created SKSE.ini inside the folder ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/Data/SKSE , with 4 lines:
[Loader]
RuntimeName=SkyrimSE.exe
[Display]
iTintTextureResolution=2048
- created Scripts folder inside the folder ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/Data
- copied all .pex scripts to the folder ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/Data/Scripts

14) for making SkyUI mod work: after the installation via Vortex added the line '*SkyUI_SE.esp' to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Skyrim\ Special\ Edition/Plugins.txt - thanks to Lahvuun, https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/170#issuecomment-561408035

I hope this could be useful for someone.

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1331 Location: sweden

halcon

at the moment i am running SSE with:

SSE works out of the box with Steam Play(proton) but you need to set some tweeks in winecfg to make all work
or use PROTON_..... %command% .

regards hedmo

halcon · l33t Joined: 15 Dec 2019 Posts: 649

Hi hedmo.

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1331 Location: sweden

halcon · l33t Joined: 15 Dec 2019 Posts: 649

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1331 Location: sweden

halcon · l33t Joined: 15 Dec 2019 Posts: 649

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1331 Location: sweden

halcon

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom has a woraround for the skyUI:

luciano · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 132

Hi All,

I've been struggling getting my ps4 dualshock gamepad to work in 'Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice' via bluetooth for several days now.

It's a very curious situation. What currently works:

Both steam Big Picture Mode (BPM) controls, as well as in-game, when plugged in via USB cable.
BPM, but not in-game, when connected via bluetooth

In-game (i.e. after launching the game) only works when I have all 'playstation controller support' disabled in the global Steam settings. This also means that in-game, the button hints are for an xbox controller rather than for playstation controller. It took me a while to figure out that this needs to be disabled, as otherwise it won't work in-game, even via USB cable. Also, there is a notice in the global menu when selection 'playstation controller', warning that games can't 'opt-out' on an individual basis when this is enabled (that's why I switched it off - to be certain)

My Setup
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kernel:

gryf · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 50

bss · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2019 Posts: 1

I have been having even worse luck with controllers and Steam. I have a DualShock 4 and an Xbox One bluetooth controller that I don't remember ever having issues getting working in Steam on Linux, and then while I was doing a new media PC, I couldn't get them to work right on some games, and swinging back around to my laptop and desktop, those boxes' controllers don't work in-game there anymore either. The most infuriating part is that all the controllers work on all the boxes fine to control Big Picture Mode, it's just games that are a mess.

I have screenshots I took when I was playing a game on 5/21 that I'm fairly confident I played with a controller, but now the controller does nothing in that game. I have no idea what changed. I've tried the DS4 and XBO pad wired or wireless, enabled disabled PS4/Xbox/Generic support in all sorts of combinations, tried changing desktop settings in case it was a focus issue, all sorts of stuff.

Things that AFAIK worked for me up until the last day or so that now no longer work:

* 8-Bit Adventure Anthology (this is the one that I have screenshots for and fairly vividly remember playing on a controller, now no controllers work except ONCE the XBO pad worked, and then when I quit the game and tried the DS4, nothing worked again)
* Pictopix (half the time it doesn't work, half the time it works except up and down are reversed??)
* Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics

Still somehow works:

* Corpse Party (this seems to always work, confusingly)

I do feel like either something changed in Steam or there's some sort of weird race condition going on.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

My DS4's broken in recent steam versions too. Works in every other program, no problem. Works when tethered to USB. But on Bluetooth Steam doesn't even see it, not even as a generic pad.

thezombiehunter · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

I'm having issues with VAC dropping me every ~10 games. Currently using ~amd64 with KDE/OpenRC. Anyone know of any workarounds?

I'm not sure if it's because Gentoo is unsupported or if there is a legitimate connection issue due to my network setup in Gentoo. All I know is it works fine in Windows.

halcon · l33t Joined: 15 Dec 2019 Posts: 649

The Main Man · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:43 am Post subject:

I had no problem with Unity games but recently I have no sound all of the sudden, only in Unity games.
I didn't change anything in system sound configuration, I'm not using pulseaudio, just pure Alsa.
If I launch those same games with Proton sound is working.

EDIT:
I found a problem, it was something in LADSPA plugin

Mgiese · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1630 Location: indiana

KPF · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2019 Posts: 16

For information:

after updating world recently, Steam client and all Steam games ceased to start: "glXChooseVisual failed"

profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (stable)

Update included adding vulkan-headers (probably unrelated)
removing eselect-opengl
and doing something about libglvnd/mesa

Kind of solved by rolling back to old nvidia-drivers (435.21-r6 or earlier). 440.100-r2 and 450.57-r1 are both no good.

Will post the same to nvidia/libglvnd topic...

EDIT: it appears the problem is not solved: the games are unplayable giving slide-show with less than 1 FPS.
(Serious Sam BFE, XCom, Sanctum, Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided - single frame in 20 seconds, literally)

Only The Talos Principle amd Serious Sam Fusion are still working, probably due to new engine using Vulkan.
OpenGL is probably broken with this combination.

gryf · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 50

The Main Man · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:31 pm Post subject:

Can anyone run Simple Chess ?
It launches fine but when I click on play it freezes.
With Proton I can't even get to the menu, it starts but it's super slow and I can't wait it out that long so I kill it.

Tefrem34 · Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 6:38 am Post subject:

I have done a fresh install of gentoo and have been trying to get steam to work but I keep getting this error