[Workaround] Latest SOURCE games and Latest Nvidia drivers

[Naib]

All, If you are a steam user and play source games (csgo, tf2, dota2) and equally are using the latest beta drivers ( 361.28 ) then the games will fail to start complaining about openGL version and SDL stating the version you have is 0.0.0.

known bug with nvidia drivers. Workaround for now is to set:
__GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1
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#define HelloWorld int
#define Int main()
#define Return printf
#define Print return
#include <stdio>
HelloWorld Int {
Return("Hello, world!\n");
Print 0;

[runem]

To solve the issue with nvidia-drivers in a more generic way I added a file with the the following following content to /etc/env.d/ :

[Naib]

That is a different problem and is associated with newer xorg.


I am posting about a regression in the nvidia drivers for source games with the latest beta drivers
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#define HelloWorld int
#define Int main()
#define Return printf
#define Print return
#include <stdio>
HelloWorld Int {
Return("Hello, world!\n");
Print 0;

[BobWya]

God damn it... there's no such thing as "the latest Nvidia drivers" (talk about a meaningless statement)!! </rant>
If you happen to be talking about Nvidia driver version x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-361.28-r2 ... Then have you tried building them with the +compat USE flag set (which actually is the Upstream default). That should fix any GLVND issues - as it will swap in the older non-GLVND drivers libGL.

I would love to use them - but they seem to have busted my suspend/ resume cycle... Further testing is required...
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[Naib]

I did actually state the version, but thank you for your rant


Also
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Counter-Strike-Global-Offensive/issues/610
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#define HelloWorld int
#define Int main()
#define Return printf
#define Print return
#include <stdio>
HelloWorld Int {
Return("Hello, world!\n");
Print 0;

[BobWya]

[Naib]

depends on your point of view. +compat is a plaster over issues as vendor agnostic gl libraries are provided but in this instance it appears to be a bug with nvidia not so much the concept.
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/915789/linux/-solved-361-28-gtx-580-steam-several-games-don-t-start-up/post/4809417/#4809417

[BobWya]

[Naib]

[Dekan]

OP's solution worked for me, thanks.