Steam/Game-specific troubleshooting

Introduction

See Steam/Troubleshooting first.

This page assumes familiarity with the Steam#Directory structure, Steam#Launch options, environment variables, the Steam runtime and shared libraries. The GAME pseudo-variable is used to refer to a game's directory. When the text reads "run the game with FOO=bar" it is implied that you either update your launch options or run the game from the command-line with the environment variable.

Contributing

• Use "game directory" or the GAME pseudo-variable to refer to a game's directory.
• Link bug reports and sources of workarounds.

Common steps

OpenSSL 1.0 setup

Some Steam games are built against OpenSSL 1.0. (FS#53618)

Install lib32-openssl-1.0 and run the game with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openssl-1.0.

Adobe Air setup

The package adobe-air-sdk^AUR installs Adobe Air not in the place where the game expects it to be, fix this by creating the following symlink:

# ln -s "/opt/adobe-air-sdk/runtimes/air/linux/Adobe AIR" "/opt/Adobe AIR"

Adobe AIR requires you to accept its EULA by creating the file ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/eulaAccepted containing 2.

Games

Alien Isolation

Missing libpcre.so.3

$ ln -s /usr/lib/libpcre.so GAME/lib/x86_64

Append ./lib/x86_64 to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.[1]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Dependencies: [2]

• lib32-freealut^AUR
• lib32-glu
• lib32-libxmu
• lib32-sdl_ttf

And Yet It Moves

Dependencies:

• lib32-libjpeg6-turbo
• lib32-libpng12
• lib32-libtheora
• lib32-libtiff4

Game does not start

When the game refuses to launch and prints one of the following error messages:

readlink: extra operand ‘Yet’
Try 'readlink --help' for more information.

This script must be run as a user with write priviledges to game directory

Open GAME/AndYetItMovesSteam.sh and surround ${BASH_SOURCE[0]} in the following line with double quotes.

ayim_dir="$(dirname "$(readlink -f ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})")"

Anodyne

Dependencies:

• adobe-air-sdk^AUR, follow #Adobe Air setup
• xterm (probably not required)

Play with a controller: joy2key configuration

Configuration example to play Anodyne with an XBox 360 Wireless Controller

COMMON
-dev /dev/input/js0
-X
-thresh -18000 18000 -18000 18000 -18000 18000 -18000 18000 -18000 18000 -18000 18000 -18000 18000 -18000 18000
-axis Left Right Up Down blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank Left Right Up Down
-buttons c x Return

Save this to ~/.joy2keyrc and start joy2key after you start Anodyne

joy2key -rcfile ~/.joy2keyrc

Aquaria

Mouse pointer gets stuck in one direction

If the mouse pointer gets stuck in one direction, make sure GAME/usersettings.xml contains <JoystickEnabled on="0" />.

If that does not fix the issue, try unplugging any joysticks or joystick adapter devices you have plugged in.

ARK: Survival Evolved

Game does not start, displays text window with unreadable text

Run the game with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.0 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=400.

Gray water

Download the TheCenter map and copy Water_DepthBlur_MIC.uasset from that map into TheIsland as described here.

Ragnarok uses TheIsland's texture, so the same procedure fixes the issue on Ragnarok as well.

Audiosurf 2

error. unable to load song <filename> ,came back with zero duration

If you get this in your log, install pulseaudio-alsa.

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition

Refer to #Missing libcurl.so.4 or version CURL_OPENSSL_3 not found.

Beat Cop

"BeatCop.x86_64" is not responding

Run BeatCop.x86 instead of BeatCop.x86_64.

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

No sound

Note: This also helps with Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and No Time to Explain.

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Adjust the audio levels in the game options.

BLACKHOLE

Refer to #Missing libcurl.so.4 or version CURL_OPENSSL_3 not found.

Block'hood

White screen on startup

When launched the game may only display a white screen with no interface and no way to play the game. Add "-screen-fullscreen 0" to launch options.

The Book of Unwritten Tales

Dependencies:

• lib32-jasper^AUR
• lib32-libxaw^AUR

If the game does not start, uncheck: Properties > Enable Steam Community In-Game.

The game is known to segfault when opening the settings and possibly during or before playing. A workaround from the Steam discussions is to replace the game's RenderSystem_GL.so with one from Debian's repositories. To do that download this deb file, and extract it with dpkg^AUR:

$ dpkg -x libogre-*.deb outdir

Now replace GAME/lib/32/RenderSystem_GL.so with the one extracted from the .deb package.

The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

See #The Book of Unwritten Tales.

To prevent the game from crashing at the end credits, change the size of the credits image as described here.

Borderlands 2

Migrating saves from other platforms

Borderlands 2 does not support cross-platform Steam Cloud syncing, you have to manually copy the files between platforms. Save locations can be found here. Make sure your user can access the files.

Using Ctrl Key

Borderlands 2 does not allow the Ctrl key to be used by default. The game seems to be accessing keycodes and not keysyms, therefore xmodmap has no affect. A workaround is using setkeycodes to map the Ctrl-scancode to some other key, as described in Map scancodes to keycodes#Using setkeycodes. I use setkeycodes 0x1d 56 (as root) to map Ctrl to Alt before starting the game and setkeycodes 0x1d 29 to restore the default.

Logging into SHiFT

Out of the box you will not be able to log into SHiFT since the game expects certificates to be in /usr/lib/ssl, which is where Ubuntu stores them. Arch however uses /etc/ssl. To resolve the problem, run the game with SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs.

Game crashes nearly instantly

The game crashes in libopenal directly after launch.

Possible solution 0: Run the game with the -nostartupmovies flag. It no longer crashes in libopenal with a general protection error.

Possible solution 1: As of lib32-openal version 1.18.0-1, the game crashes instantly. The possible solutions are to downgrade lib32-openal to 1.17.2-1, or to start the game with LD_PRELOAD='$HOME/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1'.

In case there are messages like this in the terminal:

[  671.617205] Borderlands2[2772]: segfault at 0 ip           (null) sp 00000000ff9a462c error 14 in Borderlands2[8048000+235a000]

The following change may help (source):

LD_PRELOAD='./libcxxrt.so:/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' %command%

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

See #Borderlands 2.

Keyboard not working

This can occur with certain window managers e.g. dwm. Try a different window manager.

Not starting via Steam

If the game appears as Running, then syncs and closes when you launch it from Steam, try creating a steam_appid.txt in the game directory containing 261640. This should resolve the issue and let you start the game directly from the game directory. If that does not work, try using the steam-native-runtime.

Cities in Motion 2

Dialog boxes fail to display properly

You will not be able to read or see anything, and you will have this in your logs:

Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 69: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 69: wrong number of matrix elements

Workaround for the bug FS#35039 is available here ^{[dead link 2017-05-25]} (replace /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf).

Cities Skylines

Textures not rendering properly

Run the game with UNITY_DISABLE_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_WORKAROUNDS=yes.

Civilization V

Run the game with LD_PRELOAD='./libcxxrt.so:/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' %command%.[3]

Stuttering sound with PulseAudio

See PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Laggy sound.

Game crashes seconds after loading a map

If you have a CPU with more than 8 threads (such as AMD Ryzen), set MaxSimultaneousThreads to 16 in config.ini in game directory.[4]

Game crashes after intro video with "Unable to load texture (LoadingBaseGame.dds)"

The issue is a result of the game calling some file in a case-insensitive manner.

The solution is either to install the game on a case-insensitive file system like VFAT, or on a mount point for ciopfs^AUR.

Civilization: Beyond earth

If you are getting an instant crash/close upon launch, make sure you have the following packages installed:

• lib32-intel-tbb^AUR
• lib32-libcurl-compat
• lib32-libcurl-gnutls
• lib32-openal

Segfault after a few minutes

Backtrace:

   #0  0x08b71d06 in FireGrafix::DynamicsLock<Graphics::BuildingSkinnedDataDynamicConsts>::DynamicsLock(Graphics::SurfaceSet**, FireGrafix::SurfaceSetPoolAllocator*, unsigned short) ()
   #1  0x08c25ffc in cvLandmarkVisSystem::cvLandmarkVisDynamicConstantUpdaterSS::HandleBuildingShaderSkinned(Graphics::FGXShaderPackageInstanceView*, FireGrafix::FGXModelNode*, FGXVector4*) ()
   #2  0x08c25f34 in cvLandmarkVisSystem::cvLandmarkVisDynamicConstantUpdaterSS::UpdateNode(Graphics::FGXShaderPackageInstanceView*, FireGrafix::FGXModelNode*, FGXVector4*) ()
   #3  0x08c25e2c in FireGrafix::FGXModelRenderByNodeSSExample_Shadow<cvLandmarkVisSystem::cvLandmarkVisDynamicConstantUpdaterSS, 2, FireGrafix::FGXModelRenderEndSuperclass>::RenderNode(unsigned int*, FireGrafix::FGX_SPIV_GENERIC*, FireGrafix::FGXModelNode*, FGXVector4*) ()
   #4  0x08c24ff5 in cvLandmarkVisSystem::LandmarkRenderJob::Execute(unsigned int) ()
   #5  0x093d26d9 in Platform::JobTask::execute() ()
   #6  0xf749f3c0 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libtbb.so.2
   #7  0xf7497551 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libtbb.so.2
   #8  0xf7495fc3 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libtbb.so.2
   #9  0xf7491b7e in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libtbb.so.2
   #10 0xf7491db7 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libtbb.so.2
   #11 0xf78f4346 in start_thread () from /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0
   #12 0xf7716026 in clone () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6

Segfault is caused by lib32-intel-tbb^AUR. To fix the issue:

1. Download libtbb2 deb-package from one of the Ubuntu mirrors.
2. Unpack libtbb.so.2 from libtbb2_4.2_20130725-1.1ubuntu1_i386.deb/data.tar.xz/usr/lib into the game directory.
3. Run the game with LD_PRELOAD='./libtbb.so.2'.

Civilization VI

Either run with steam-native or env LD_PRELOAD='./libcxxrt.so:/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6'. The latter will disable the Steam overlay.

Follow #OpenSSL 1.0 setup.

If Segfault Immediately on Start

This is a strange corner case which happens infrequently at best (and the prerequisites for reproducing it are unknown), but the crash would look like this:

1. Immediate segfault on start, before any windows get created
2. The game creates ~/.local/share/aspyr-media/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/AppOptions.txt
3. The string AppHost::BugSubmissionPackager::BugSubmissionPackager appears inhttp://store.steampowered.com/app/310080/Hatoful_Boyfriend/ the backtrace output when running the game under gdb
   1. To run under gdb, first launch a shell and change into the game directory.
   2. Then echo 289070 > steam_appid.txt (otherwise the game won't launch outside of Steam itself)
   3. Then run something like gdb -ex run -ex bt -ex quit --args ./Civ6 ./Civ6
   4. The relevant info towards the end of the output should look like this:

   Thread 3 "Civ6" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
   [Switching to Thread 0x7fffe5d06700 (LWP 12315)]
   0x000000000201121e in AppHost::BugSubmissionPackager::BugSubmissionPackager(unsigned long, String::BasicT<Platform::StaticHeapAllocator<5, 0>, (String::Encoding)4> const&, String::BasicT<Platform::StaticHeapAllocator<5, 0>, (String::Encoding)0> const&, AppHost::ModuleVersionInfo const&) ()
   #0  0x000000000201121e in AppHost::BugSubmissionPackager::BugSubmissionPackager(unsigned long, String::BasicT<Platform::StaticHeapAllocator<5, 0>, (String::Encoding)4> const&, String::BasicT<Platform::StaticHeapAllocator<5, 0>, (String::Encoding)0> const&, AppHost::ModuleVersionInfo const&) ()
   #1  0x000000000200c796 in AppHost::_INTERNAL::SetupFXSPlatform(AppHost::AppEnvironment const*, AppHost::AppOptions*)
       ()
   #2  0x000000000200fea0 in AppHost::RunApp(int, char**, AppHost::Application*) ()
   #3  0x000000000200f9bc in AppHost::RunApp(char*, AppHost::Application*) ()
   #4  0x0000000001112d98 in WinMain ()
   #5  0x00000000010bdab0 in ?? ()
   #6  0x00000000010bfb31 in ThreadHANDLE::ThreadProc(void*) ()
   #7  0x00007ffff473e08a in start_thread () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
   #8  0x00007ffff38f747f in clone () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6

If all of that is the case for you, the fix is pretty simple. Edit ~/.local/share/aspyr-media/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/AppOptions.txt and change the line reading EnableBugCollection 1 to EnableBugCollection 0.

Presumably this fix will prevent any automated bug reports from reaching Aspyr, should you encounter crashes/bugs in the future, but it will at least let the game launch properly.

Deus Ex: Mankind divided

Follow #OpenSSL 1.0 setup.

Requires librtmp0.

Also if you use Bumblebee set your launch options to:

LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 optirun %command%

The Clockwork Man

Requires lib32-libidn (pulled in by steam-native-runtime).

Company of Heroes 2

Missing libpcre.so.3

Like with #Alien Isolation you need to symlink /usr/lib/libpcre.so to GAME/lib/arch/libpcre.so.3, otherwise the game will fail to start.

Cossacks 3

No sound

Use the steam-runtime, e.g. set the launch options to:

~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh %command%

Flashing screen with primus

Set PRIMUS_SYNC=2in the launch options.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO)

Game starts on the wrong screen

csgo-osx-linux issue #60

If it happens, go into fullscreen windowed or windowed mode and drag the window to the correct monitor. Then go back into fullscreen, the game should now be on the correct monitor.

Cannot reach bottom of the screen on menus

csgo-osx-linux issue #594

If you have a secondary monitor you might have a part of your lower screen you cannot reach in menus. If on Gnome you can try to open the overview (Super key) and drag the game to the other monitor and back.

If you are not on Gnome or dragging the window back and forth did not work you can try to install wmctrl and run this command, where X and Y is the offset of the window and H and W is the size.

wmctrl -r "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - OpenGL" -e 0,X,Y,H,W

Example: SecondaryMonitor: on the left 2560x1600, GamingMonitor: on the right 2560x1440).

wmctrl -r "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - OpenGL" -e 0,2560,0,1600,1200

Here X and Y is 0,2560 to move the window to the monitor on the right and H and W 1600,1200 is set to match the in-game resolution.

Sound is played slightly delayed

csgo-osx-linux issue #45

See PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Laggy sound for a possible solution.

Mouse not working in-game

If your mouse works in the main menu but not in-game, run the game with SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0. [5]

Brightness slider not working

Install xorg-xrandr and run xrandr to find out the name of your connected display output.

Edit GAME/csgo.sh and add the following lines (adapt output_name):

# gamma correction
xrandr --output output_name --gamma 1.6:1.6:1.6 # play with values if required
STATUS=42
while [$STATUS -eq 42]; do
 ...
done
# restore gamma
xrandr --output output_name --gamma 1:1:1
exit $STATUS

Microphone not working

csgo-osx-linux issue #573

CS:GO uses the default PulseAudio sound device ignoring what is configured in Steam settings.

First find out the source name of your microphone (it should start with alsa_input.):

$ pacmd list-sources

Then set the default device (change the name accordingly):

$ pacmd set-default-source device_name

Also lower the microphone level to 60% otherwise you will get some nasty background noise and you will be difficult to understand (change the name accordingly):

$ pacmd set-source-volume device_name 0x6000

Crusader Kings II

x86_64 dependencies:

• lib32-openssl

No audio

SDL uses PulseAudio by default, so to use it with ALSA you need to set:

~/.pam_environment

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

Oddly sized starting window

You can make full screen mode the default by setting fullscreen=yes in ~/.paradoxinteractive/Crusader Kings II/settings.txt.

DLCs not detected

If the DLC tab in the launcher is not selectable, rename the DLC directory in the game directory to dlc.

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Crashes after splash screen

The following error occurs if launching Steam from the terminal.

FMOD ERROR: UpdateFMOD SystemUpdate: This command failed because System::init or System::setDriver was not called.

This error is solved by installing pulseaudio-alsa.

The Curious Expedition

Game stuck on loading screen

The Electron shipped with this game is too old for Arch Linux.

Install electron and run the game with electron resources/app.asar.

Death Road To Canada

No music

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

Dependencies:

• adobe-air-sdk^AUR, follow #Adobe Air setup
• xterm
• lib32-libcanberra

Dirt

Follow #OpenSSL 1.0 setup.

Dirt Rally

Prepend lib/x86_64 to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, otherwise the game will fail to start.

Note: The order of the paths is important. $LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be the last entry or it won't work.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

Game does not start when using Bumblebee optirun or primusrun

Edit GAME/runner.sh to use primusrun:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="." primusrun ./EoCApp

Game does not work with amdgpu

It is a known bug and they have no intention of fixing it, see the bug.

Workaround:

Get the following file: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=125302 and rename it to shim.c

Then execute

$ gcc -shared -fpic shim.c -o divhack.so

Next, start steam and open a console, change to the diviniti directory with

$ cd ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition

Edit the contained runner.sh as follows:

export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.2
export MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=420
export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/divhack.so
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="."
./EoCApp

Then just start the game. In case it still crashes on loading you may also need to add

export allow_glsl_extension_directive_midshader=true

Don't Starve

Dependencies:

• lib32-flashplugin
• lib32-libcurl-gnutls

No sound

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

In the game, go to the options and adjust the audio levels.

Dota 2

Dependencies:

• libudev0^AUR
• libpng12

In-game font is unreadable

Run the game with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=2.1.

Error with libpangoft2

1. Install the pango package.
2. Remove libpango-1.0.so and libpangoft2-1.0.so in GAME/game/bin/linuxsteamrt64.
3. If you are using Bumblebee add LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 optiru to your launch options.

The game does not start

If you run the game from the terminal and, although no error is shown, try disabling: Steam > Settings > In-Game > Enable Steam Community In-Game.

Apparently the game #The Book of Unwritten Tales has the same problem. It also describes a workaround that is untested in Dota 2.

Game runs on the wrong screen

GitHub Dota 2 issue #11

Game does not start with libxcb-dri3 error message

After a recent Mesa update, Dota 2 stopped working. The error message is:

SDL_GL_LoadLibrary(NULL) failed: Failed loading libGL.so.1: /usr/lib32/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_fd

Steam overlay

Steam distributes a copy of libxcb which is incompatible with the latest xorg libxcb. See [6], [7].

Chinese tips and player names not shown

The Chinese characters in tips and player names are displayed as block characters.

The problem is caused by the font packages: ttf-dejavu, ttf-liberation and ttf-ms-fonts^AUR.

GitHub Steam issue #1688 ^{[dead link 2017-05-25]}

Chinese input method problem

Dota2 is compatible with IBus .

Devil Daggers

Refer to #Missing libcurl.so.4 or version CURL_OPENSSL_3 not found.

Drox Operative

If the game fails to start with "Couldn't find Database/database.dbl!", manually extract the assets. assets003.zip will overwrite some files from the previous files.

$ cd "~/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Drox Operative/Assets"
$ unzip assets00[123].zip

Dwarfs F2P

Dependencies:

• lib32-libgdiplus^{AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}

Game does not start

There was a bug that stopped Steam from fetching all the needed files. It should be resolved, if you still bump into this problem, try verifying integrity of game cache from game properties, local files tab.

If the game still crashes at startup, edit GAME/Run.sh and change

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

to

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:.

Note: This file may be overwritten by updates or by verifying integrity of game cache. You may need to modify it again.

If these do not help, you may have outdated libraries in the game installation folder that are crashing the game on startup. Try removing the following files from the game directory:

libX11.so.6 libsteam.so libtier0_s.so libvstdlib_s.so steamclient.so

Game crashes

In some cases, the game crashes about 2 minutes before the end of every arcade. This bug has been reported, but there's no known solution to it.

Dynamite Jack

Requires lib32-sdl.

Sound Issues

When running on 64-bit Arch Linux, there may be "pops and hisses" when running Dynamite Jack. This could be caused by not having STEAM_RUNTIME=0 set. (However, even with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 set, the game may still sometimes start with this issue. Exiting and restarting the game seems to make the problem go away.)

Game does not start

If running steam with the STEAM_RUNTIME=0, Dynamite Jack may have a problem starting. Check the steam error messages for this message:

/home/$USER/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Dynamite Jack/bin/main: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install lib32-sdl from multilib and Dynamite Jack should start up.

Empire Total War

Weird unreadable fonts

Open ~/.local/share/feral-interactive/Empire/preferences, then find UsePBOSurfaces and change it from 1 to 0.

Euro Truck Simulator 2

Shows only a black screen

Select safe mode when the game starts up.

Football Manager 2014

This game will not run when installed on an XFS or reiserfs filesystem. Workaround is to install on an ext4 filesystem.

FORCED

Requires lib32-glu.

This game has 32-bit and 64-bit binaries. For some reason, Steam will launch the 32-bit binary even on 64-bit Arch Linux. When manually launching the 64-bit binary, the game starts, but cannot connect to Steam account, so you cannot play. So install 32-bits dependencies, and launch the game from Steam.

FTL: Faster than Light

Compatibility

After installation, FTL may fail to run due to a 'Text file busy' error (characterised in Steam by your portrait border going green then blue again). The easiest way to mend this is to just reboot your system. Upon logging back in FTL should run.

The Steam overlay in FTL does not function as it is not a 3D accelerated game. Because of this the desktop notifications will be visible. If playing in fullscreen, therefore, these notifications in some systems may steal focus and revert you back to windowed mode with no way of going back to fullscreen without relaunching. The binaries for FTL on Steam have no DRM and it is possible to run the game without Steam running, so in some cases that may be optimum - just ensure that you launch FTL via the launcher script in GAME/data/ rather than the FTL binary in the $arch directory.

Problems with open-source video driver

FTL may fail to run if you are using an opensource driver for your video card. There are two solutions: install a proprietary video driver or delete (rename if you are unsure) the library "libstdc++.so.6" inside GAME/data/amd64/lib. This is if you are using a 64bit system. In case you are using a 32bit system you have to remove (rename) the same library located into GAME/data/x86/lib.

Game Dev Tycoon

Game does not start

You might get an error about missing libudev.so.0.

Run the game with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libudev.so.1.

Garry's Mod

Game does not start

When an error about a missing client.so appears, try the following:

$ cd ~/.steam/root/steamapps/common/GarrysMod/bin/
$ ln -s libawesomium-1-7.so.0 libawesomium-1-7.so.2
$ ln -s ../garrysmod/bin/client.so ./

If the error mentions a missing library for libgcrypt.so.11, install lib32-libgcrypt15.

Opening some menus causes the game to crash

Most menus work fine, but ones with checkboxes (LAN multiplayer, mounted games list) do not work at all. This is a bug in the menu code.

If you prefer the default menu style and do not mind a hacky solution: Simon311 has written code with instructions to fix it.

If you do not care for the default menu style and want a more stable but feature-incomplete solution, Facepunch developer robotboy655 has written a new menu.

Game crashes after attempting to join server

While in the process of joining a server, downloading resources, etc, the game seems to hang and after a while, perhaps during the "sending client info" portion the game crashes, usually without any error messages. Error does not give much information, however, the process for Garry's mod is killed.

This issue arises more often when joining servers with many addons like DarkRP servers specifically.

The problem seems to correlate with a weak GPU and the game is timing out from the server, so if the GPU is the problem, lowering the graphics settings to the minimum should fix the problem.

The problem seems to be related to RAM usage, once you hit around 2GB of RAM used, the game will crash. Servers with many addons have much more RAM usage, and lowering graphics settings to the minimum lowers RAM usage and mitigates crashes.

Gods will be watching

Follow #OpenSSL 1.0 setup.

GRID Autosport

Follow #OpenSSL 1.0 setup.

Black screen when trying to play

Run the game with LC_ALL=C.

Hack 'n' Slash

Crashes when trying to load a game

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Hacker Evolution

Requires lib32-sdl2_mixer.

Half-Life 2 and episodes

Cyrillic fonts problem

This problem can be solved by deleting "Helvetica" font.

Hammerwatch

The game does not start via Steam

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

No sound

Hammerwatch opens with a popup: "Sound Error" -- "Could not initialize OpenAL, no sounds will be played. Try updating your OpenAL drivers."

OpenAL, which Hammerwatch uses, defaults to PulseAudio. To change that, add the following line to /etc/openal/alsoft.conf:

drivers=alsa,pulse

This way, Hammerwatch will use ALSA. This solution was found here.

Harvest: Massive Encounter

Dependencies:

• lib32-sfml^AUR
• lib32-libjpeg6-turbo
• lib32-nvidia-cg-toolkit
• lib32-gtk2
• lib32-libvorbis
• lib32-openal

Compatibility

If the game refuses to launch and throws you into a library installer loop, run the Harvest executable instead of the run_harvest script.

Hatoful Boyfriend

Japanese text invisible

Install wqy-microhei and wqy-microhei-lite.

HuniePop

Game crashes upon launch

Install lsb-release.

Hyper Light Drifter

The controller does not work

Install lib32-sdl2 and run the game with LD_PRELOAD=libSDL2.so.

See the following Steam Community discussions:

• Controller Issues
• Common Bugs + Known Issues

It is suggested to run the next_update branch to get new fixes, there however currently is a libcurl segfault keeping it from starting without special workarounds.

Missing libcurl.so.4 or version CURL_OPENSSL_3 not found

Install lib32-libcurl-compat and run the game with LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3.

The Impossible Game

Dependencies:

• lib32-sdl2
• lib32-sdl2_image

The Inner World

Requires java-commons-codec^AUR for sound support.

Bringing up the inventory or main menu

Hold the tab key.

Cutscenes

The game has cutscenes. It starts directly with a cutscene before you start the actual game in the backyard. To see these cutscenes you need to use Oracle's Java instead of the OpenJDK.

Furthermore you need the package ffmpeg-compat-55^AUR.

There seem to be problems with the Steam overlay. Try to run the game directly with GAME/TIW_start.sh.

Note that cutscenes open in a new window. So pay attention to that and switch to the new window to enjoy the movies.

See the Steam Forums for details.

Interloper

Requires alsa-lib.

Game does not start

The game can sometimes segfault due to an incompatibility with the Steam Runtime's libasound.so.2.

Invisible Apartment

Requires qt5-multimedia.

Game does not start

If the game does not run when you launch it via Steam, try to directly run ./ia1 in the game directory.

Joe Danger 2: The Movie

Requires lib32-libpulse.

Compatibility

Game only worked after obtaining from the Humble Bundle directly and lib32-libpulse was installed.

Kerbal Space Program

See Kerbal Space Program.

Killing Floor

Cannot change screen resolution

If trying to modify the resolution in-game crashes your desktop environment, edit ~/.killingfloor/System/KillingFloor.ini:

[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
WindowedViewportX=width
WindowedViewportY=height
FullscreenViewportX=width
FullscreenViewportY=height
MenuViewportX=width
MenuViewportY=height

[SDLDrv.SDLClient]
WindowedViewportX=width
WindowedViewportY=height
FullscreenViewportX=width
FullscreenViewportY=height
MenuViewportX=width
MenuViewportY=height

Windowed mode

Uncheck fullscreen in the options menu, and press Ctrl+g to stop mouse capturing.

Stuttering sound

KillingFloor comes with its own OpenAL library GAME/System/openal.so.

Back it up, install openal or lib32-openal (if using a 64bit system).

Then symlink the installed system library (/usr/lib32/libopenal.so.1 or /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1) to openal.so.

Left for Dead 2

Missing Chinese font

L4D2 Requires wqy-zenhei. Or add the following lines to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

        <match target="pattern">
               <test qual="any" name="family">
                       <string>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</string>
               </test>
               <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same">
                       <string>Source Han Sans CN</string>
               </edit>
       </match>

Lethal League

Requires lib32-glew1.10.

Life is Strange

Requires librtmp0, sdl2_image.

Little Racers STREET

Install sdl2_mixer.

Move/backup GAME/lib64/libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0.

Symlink /usr/lib/libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0 to GAME/lib64/libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0.

The Long Dark

Game does not start

The 64-bit version fails to start. Either use the 32-bit version tld.x86 in the game directory or start the 64-bit version like so:

LD_PRELOAD=~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 ./tld.x86_64

Game starts, but some overlay text is missing and cutscenes shows black screen

In addition to the command above, add the following to the Steam launch command:

-screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-width WIDTH_PIXELS -screen-height HEIGHT_PIXELS

For example, if you have a screen resolution of 1280x720 and are launching the x64 version from the terminal (within the directory which contains the binaries), the full command would be:

LD_PRELOAD=~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 ./tld.x86_64 -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-width 1280 -screen-height 720

and from Steam, the complete game launch options would be:

LD_PRELOAD=~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 %command% -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-width 1280 -screen-height 720

Cutscenes are still black

Turn off Vertical Sync in the Display options, and/or set POST FX to Low in the Quality options, and/or turn global Quality options down a notch.

Cursor disappears

Go to Options > Controls, and set mouse locking to unlocked.

The options is visible only if you're navigating using your (invisible) mouse. It will not show up when navigating with a controller. One solution is to go to Options -> Controls with a controller before switching to the mouse and trying to blindly it the setting.

Magicka 2

Indefinitely stuck at start

The game does not start if the output of the command "ip -s link" is longer than 4096 characters. That is because, in the function bitsquid::network_info(char*), where they query the networking information, they do not handle that case correctly. See this picture for reference. It was reported to upstream (Pieces Interactive) but Magicka 2 does not seem to be maintained anymore.

A dirty fix is to wrap your ip binary, as such:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $@ == "-s link" ]]; then
    echo "<paste a smaller subset of the normal output>"
else
    /path/to/your/real/ip "$@"
fi

Mark of the Ninja

Bad sound

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Metro: Last Light

The game does not allow you to change its resolution on a multi-monitor setup on GNOME with the AMD Catalyst drivers. A temporary workaround is to disable the side monitors. Jason over at unencumbered by facts managed to get it working with his multi-monitor setup using a single display server, he however is using Nvidia.

Metro: 2033 Redux

No sound

The game does not properly support PulseAudio, so you will have to use ALSA. Run the game with SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa. Create the file ~/.asoundrc. Get your card/device number with aplay -l. Add the following to your ~/.asoundrc (replace card and device no with the one you got from aplay -l)

pcm.!default { 
    type hw
    card 0
    device 0
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 0 
}

Before starting the game make sure to kill PulseAudio with pulseaudio -k.

No image

Try setting r_fullscreen off in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Metro 2033 Redux/user.cfg.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Floating heads

Run the game with __GL_ShaderPortabilityWarnings=0.

Mount & Blade: Warband

Segmentation fault (core dumped) with wayland

Use Xorg instead.

DLC Chooser

Requires lib32-nas^AUR.

Multiwinia

Requires lib32-openal.

Crash on startup

If Multiwinia crashes on startup on X64 systems, force launching the 32-bit executable by replacing GAME/run_steam.sh with the following script:

#!/bin/sh
./multiwinia.bin.x86

See [8].

Natural Selection 2

sndio is required, furthermore, you must also execute

$ ln -s /usr/lib/libsndio.so x64/libsndio.so.6.1

within the root of the NS2 directory. This is because NS2 uses an older outdated version of sndio, but it is still compatible with the new version, thankfully.

For a more minimal solution, one can attempt to set the audio driver used through the environment variable SDL_AUDIODRIVER. For example, SDL_AUDIODRIVER=sndio or SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa.

The environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER must not be set to wayland. Try setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER to x11 if it still does not work.

Nuclear Throne

Missing libcurl.so.4 or version CURL_OPENSSL_3 not found

Install lib32-libcurl-compat and run the game with LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3.

Oxygen Not Included

World generation hangs

This problem occurs with locales that use comas instead of dots to separate decimals.

Set launch options in steam to LANG=C %command%.[9]

Penumbra: Overture

Dependencies:

• lib32-glu
• lib32-libvorbis
• lib32-libxft
• lib32-openal
• lib32-sdl_image
• lib32-sdl_ttf

Windowed mode

There is no in-game option to change to the windowed mode, you will have to edit ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Overture/settings.cfg to activate it.

Find FullScreen="true" and change it to FullScreen="false", after this the game should start in windowed mode.

The Polynomial

Dependencies:

• ilmbase102-libs^{AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}
• openexr170-libs^{AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}

Steam for Linux issue #2721

Segfaults during program start on 64-bit systems

The game segfaults during program start because of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting in the launcher script. Edit GAME/Polynomial64, and comment out the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. Make sure to put the ./bin/Polynomial64 "$@" command on a new line.

Portal 2

Game does not start

Several OpenGL-related errors (such as PROBLEM: You appear to have OpenGL 1.4.0, but we need at least 2.0.0! or libGL error: driver pointer missing) are caused by Portal 2 bundling an old libstdc++ file. This error is especially common with open source Radeon drivers (radeonsi).

A problem with libstdc can be fixed by running the game with LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6'.

Resolution too low

When the game starts with a resolution so low that you cannot reach the game settings, run the game in windowed mode using the -windowed flag.

Missing non Latin font

Portal and Portal2 use Helvetica, add the following lines to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:

<match target="pattern">
    <test qual="any" name="family">
        <string>Helvetica</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same">
        <string>Source Han Sans CN</string>
    </edit>
</match>

Prison Architect

ALSA error when using PulseAudio

The error:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

was resolved by installing:

• pulseaudio-alsa
• lib32-libpulse

per PulseAudio#ALSA.

Project Zomboid

Requires jre7-openjdk.

No sound

Prepend /usr/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

In the game, go to the options and set all audio to the proper volume.

Pyre

Game does not start

Remove GAME/lib64/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.

If this doesn't work, downgrade sdl2.

$ pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/s/sdl2/sdl2-2.0.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Then add sdl2 to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf.

IgnorePkg = sdl2

Redshirt

Requires lib32-libpulse if you use PulseAudio.

Revenge of the Titans

Requires libxtst and lib32-libxtst.

Risk of Rain

Requires lib32-libcurl-compat. Then symlink it with this command :

$ ln -s /usr/lib32/libcurl.so.3 GAME/lib/libcurl.so.4

Rock Boshers DX: Directors Cut

Requires lib32-libcaca.

Saints Row IV

Game fails to launch after update to new Nvidia drivers

Run the game with /usr/lib32/libGLX_nvidia.so appended to the LD_PRELOAD.

Game causes GPU lockup with mesa drivers

Saints Rows IV can cause a GPU lockup when trying to play on certain AMD hardware using open source drivers: Bug 93475.

A workaround is to run the game with R600_DEBUG=nosb.

Serious Sam 3: BFE

No audio

Try running:

# mkdir -p /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/
# ln -s /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/

If that does not work, try tweaking ~/.alsoftrc as proposed by the Steam community (Serious Sam 3: BFE uses OpenAL to output sound). If you are not using Pulse Audio, you may want to write the following configuration:

~/.alsoftrc

[general]
drivers = alsa
[alsa]
device = default
capture = default
mmap = true

Slay the Spire

If the game does not start or crashes at startup, install xorg-xrandr.

Songbringer

Launch error with Wayland

Install glfw-x11 and run the game with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libglfw.so.3.

Space Pirates and Zombies

Requires lib32-openal.

No audio

Try running:

# mkdir -p /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/
# ln -s /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/

If that does not work, try tweaking ~/.alsoftrc as proposed by the Steam community (Serious Sam 3: BFE uses OpenAL to output sound). If you are not using Pulse Audio, you may want to write the following configuration:

~/.alsoftrc

[general]
drivers = alsa
[alsa]
device = default
capture = default
mmap = true

Spacechem

Dependencies:

• lib32-sdl_mixer
• lib32-sdl_image
• lib32-sqlite

Game crash

The shipped x86 version of Spacechem does not work on x64 with the game's own libSDL* files, and crashes with some strange output.

To solve this just remove the three files libSDL-1.2.so.0, libSDL_image-1.2.so.0, libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 from the game directory.

Splice

Requires glu.

The Stanley Parable

Game won't start

As discussed in the Steam store page, remove bin/libstdc++.so.6 from the game folder.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Dependencies:

• lib32-libstdc++5
• lib32-libxcursor
• lib32-libxrandr

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution

Start with black screen

The game by default tries to launch in fullscreen mode with a resolution of 1024x768, which doesn't work on some devices (for example the Samsung Series9 laptop with Intel hd4000 video).

Run the game in windowed mode by using the -window flag. Then change the resolution in-game.

Stephen's Sausage Roll

No sound

If using native libraries^{[broken link: invalid section]} and libpulse is installed, Unity may try to use that library for sound and fail. To test if this is the problem, try removing libpulse or renaming the package files that are named libpulse-simple*. To see which libpulse files are relevant, run:

$ pacman -Qql libpulse | grep /usr/lib/libpulse-simple

/usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so
/usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0
/usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0.1.0

If renaming any of those files works for you, you can proceed with the following instructions (revert any renaming you just did). Browse to the game's directory:

$ cd "$HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Stephen's Sausage Roll"

And create a sub-directory that we can use to hold 0-byte look-alike library files:

$ mkdir noload/

Use touch to create 0-byte versions of the above files that we want the dynamic linker to skip, e.g.:

$ touch noload/{libpulse-simple.so,libpulse-simple.so.0,libpulse-simple.so.0.1.0}

Note: Only a 0-byte libpulse-simple.so.0 file may be required.

After you have created these 0-byte files, you can now attempt to run the game binary directly, telling the dynamic linker to use our 0-byte files:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="noload/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ./Sausage.x86_64

If everything works up to this point, prepend noload/ to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Again, this should work because Steam checks for a noload/ directory relative to the game's directory. The dynamic linker should respect the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and fail to load the necessary libpulse files. The game should then fallback to plain ALSA.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Dependencies:

• lib32-glu
• lib32-libpulse if you use PulseAudio

The game bundles an outdated version of libstdc++ which prevents the game from starting. [10] The following can be observed when you run Steam and S&S from the terminal:

libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

To solve this problem remove GAME/lib/libstdc++.so.6*. After that the game will use the libstdc++ from Steam.

System Shock 2

You get these errors when running it with the native client:

C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: xcb_wait_for_reply64
C:\windows\system32\wineboot.exe: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: xcb_wait_for_reply64

Just delete or rename the libxcb library it got shipped with:

mv /mnt/olhdd/steam/steamapps/common/SS2/lib/libxcb.so.1{,.old}
mv /mnt/olhdd/steam/steamapps/common/SS2/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0{,.old}

Tabletop Simulator

CJK characters not showing in game

Install wqy-microhei and wqy-microhei-lite.

Team Fortress 2

Requires lib32-libpng12.

HRTF setup

Assuming HRTF (head-related transfer function) has been properly set up in the operating system, HRTF won't be enabled unless you disable the original processing. To do so, use

dsp_slow_cpu 1

For best results, also change the following:

snd_spatialize_roundrobin 1
dsp_enhance_stereo 0
snd_pitchquality 1

Loading screen freeze

If you are a non-English (speaking) user, you have to enable "en_US.UTF-8" in the locale.gen! Generate a new locale after that.

No audio

It happens if there is no PulseAudio in your system. If you want to use ALSA, you need to launch Steam or the game directly with SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa (From SteamCommunity).

If it still does not work, you may also need to set the environment variable AUDIODEV. For instance AUDIODEV=Live. Use aplay -l to list the available sound cards.

Slow loading textures

If you are using Chris' FPS Configs or any other FPS config, you may have set mat_picmip to 2. This spawns multiple threads for texture loading, which may cause more jittering and lag on Linux, especially on alternative kernels. Try setting it to -1, the default.

Terraria

See the KNOWN ISSUES & WORKAROUNDS​ section of the release announcement.

This War of Mine

Game does not start

This happens because of an incompatibility with the newer version of lib32-curl. To fix the problem you need to remove libcurl.so.4 from the game directory.

Sound glitches with Steam native

The bundled libOpenAL might not work correctly, try symlinking /usr/lib32/libopenal.so to GAME/libOpenAL.so.

Ticket to Ride

Dependencies:

• lib32-gstreamer0.10-base^AUR
• lib32-pangox-compat^AUR

As lib32-gstreamer0.10-base is quite hard to build you can use alucryd-multilib repo for this package

The Tiny Bang Story

Missing libGLEW.so.1.6

# ln -s /usr/lib32/libGLEW.so.1.10.0 /usr/lib32/libGLEW.so.1.6

Tomb Raider

Game immediately closes when running with steam-native

Tomb Raider has a very heavy amount of dependency on the Steam runtime, the easiest solution is to just run it using the runtime.

Steam Controller not working in-game

If your Steam Controller is correctly recognized and paired but still not working in-game try the following:

• In Steam, non Big Screen, go to Settings > Account > Beta participation > Change... and in the dropdown select box select Steam Beta Update
• Restart Steam
• Go to Big Screen and start Tomb Raider

Correctly recognized means you can control the desktop mouse and Steam in Big Picture mode and the controller is shown in the Big Picture settings.

Tower Unite

Graphical Glitches

This is a known issue, and it occurs because the shaders had not been ported to Linux yet by the developers. To minimize glitches and make the game playable add -opengl4 to your launch options, set Ocean Quality to "Potato" and Effects Quality to "Low" in the game settings.

Towns / Towns Demo

Requires Java.

Transistor

Crash on launch / FMOD binding crash / audio issues

Run the game with:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6:/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1:/usr/lib/libxcb.so.1:/usr/lib/libasound.so.2'

Otherwise, run the game via shell and set up proper audio device for FMOD, as discussed in [11].

Also, check out this thread [12].

Transmissions: Element 120

Dependencies:

• lib32-libgcrypt15
• lib32-libpng12

Troubleshooting

Make sure you have all libraries installed. Above the standard set required by Steam runtime, the game requires few additional ones. The typical error message that indicates that is

AppFramework : Unable to load module vguimatsurface.so!

To find missing dependencies go into the game directory and run:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=bin ldd bin/vguimatsurface.so

Look for entries that say not found.

Trine 2

Dependencies:

• lib32-glu
• lib32-libxxf86vm
• lib32-openal
• xorg-xwininfo
• lib32-libdrm

• lib32-libpng12
• lib32-libwrap

Colors

If colors are wrong with FOSS drivers (r600g at least), try to run the game in windowed mode, rendering will be corrected. (bug report)

Sound

If sound plays choppy, try:

/etc/openal/alsoft.conf

drivers=pulse,alsa
frequency=48000

Resolution

If the game resolution is wrong when using a dual monitor setup and you can't see the whole window edit ~/.frozenbyte/Trine2/options.txt and change the options ForceFullscreenWidth and ForceFullscreenHeight to the resolution of your monitor on which you want to play the game.

Tropico 5

Blank screen with sound only on startup

Run the game with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.0 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=400.

Unity of Command

Requires lib32-pango.

Squares

If squares are shown instead of text, try removing GAME/bin/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.

No audio

If you get this error:

ALSA lib dlmisc.c:254:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

Try running:

# mkdir -p /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/
# ln -s /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/

Unity3D

Games based on the Unity3D engine, like War For The Overworld or Pixel Piracy may need the package lsb-release to understand that they run on Linux and work properly.

Locale settings

Games made in C# often have a problem with some locales (e.g. Russian, German) because developers don't specify locale-agnostic number formatting. This can result in some game screens loading only partially, problems with online features or other bugs.

To work around this, run the game with LC_ALL=C.

Affected games: FORCED, Gone Home, Ichi, Nimble Quest, Syder Arcade.

Unity 5 sound problems

The sound system in Unity 5 changed and to be able to play games created with it you must most likely install and run PulseAudio.

Another solution is to disable the Steam runtime: in the launch options for the game, write this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" %command%

Another solution is to prevent Unity from trying to use pulseaudio using pulsenomore^AUR package from the AUR. Once it is installed, use the following as launch options :/usr/bin/pulsenomore %command%

Affected games: Kerbal Space Program, SUPERHOT, ClusterTruck

Game launching on wrong monitor in fullscreen mode

Unity games that do not support monitor selection will most likely launch the game on a wrong monitor.

The problem is that Unity games write the default parameter <pref name="UnitySelectMonitor" type="int">-1</pref> to the game config file.

This will lead to the game launching on a non-primary monitor.

When changing to value into <pref name="UnitySelectMonitor" type="int">0</pref> for the according game, the game will start on the correct (primary) monitor.

A Unity game config file usually resides in ~/.config/unity3d/CompanyName/ProductName/prefs.

Affected games: Cities: Skylines, Tabletop Simulator, Assault Android Cactus, Wasteland 2, Tyranny, Beat Cop.

Be aware that some games do not support setting that parameter, it will simply be ignored. This is the case for Pillars of Eternity, Kentucky Route Zero, Sunless Sea.

Chinese/Japanese/Korean display bug

Install wqy-microhei and wqy-microhei-lite. Then

#fc-cache -fv

Unrest

Requires fluidsynth.

Volgarr the Viking

Delete the lib directory in the game directory to get rid of the libGL errors.

War Thunder

No audio

If there is no audio after launching the game, install pulseaudio-alsa.

Blank screen

If having a green or blank screen on startup, run the game with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.1COMPAT. [13] [14]

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

Dependencies:

• alsa-lib
• librtmp0

The start script does not point to the right direction of libasound.so.2.

To fix it open GAME/DawnOfWar2.sh and replace the following lines:

HAS_LSB_RELEASE=$(command -v lsb_release)
if [ -n "${HAS_LSB_RELEASE}" ] && [ "$(lsb_release -c | cut -f2)" = "trusty" ]; then
	LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2:${LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS}"
fi 

with:

LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS="/usr/lib64/libasound.so.2:${LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS}"

We Were Here

Stuck on black screen or logo on launch

Add -screen-fullscreen 0 to launch options. [15]

Worms W.M.D

The game includes several workarounds in the Run.sh script, however these may not work and it is easy to get the game running without this script.

First, try running the game directly from its game directory using Worms W.M.Dx64. If you get a "No such file or directory" error about libcurl-gnutls, install libcurl-gnutls. If the game crashes after playing the intro movies, add the Steam Runtime dbus libraries to the game's library directory:

$ ln -s ~/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*dbus* ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/WormsWMD/lib

Now the game should run using the default "Play Worms W.M.D" option. See also Steam community discussions [16] and [17].

On some systems there are terrain bugs where holes in terrain are not rendered properly and worms can fall through terrain unexpectedly. These bugs can make the game unplayable in many situations and there is no known fix for them.

Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings

Dependencies:

• lib32-gnutls
• lib32-libcurl-compat
• lib32-libcurl-gnutls
• lib32-sdl2_image
• lib32-sdl2

Game does not start

If the game does not run, enable error messages:

$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose ./witcher2

Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

Requires DOSBox.

To fix the crash at start, open GAME/dosbox_linux/launch_wizardry6.sh and:

1. comment the line export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:./libs
2. change the beginning of the line starting with exec ./dosbox to exec dosbox

World of Goo

Changing resolution

To change the game resolution edit the Graphics display section in GAME/properties/config.txt. For example:

<!-- Graphics display -->
<param name="screen_width" value="1680" />
<param name="screen_height" value="1050" />
<param name="color_depth" value="0" />
<param name="fullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="ui_inset" value="10" />

X3: Terran Conflict

Game crashes on startup

The game may crash on startup because it's linked to libz version 1.2.9, while the latest version of this library in Arch Linux is higher. The following message in the terminals appears in this case:

./X3TC_config: lib/libz.so.1: version 'ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libpng16.so.16

Running the game with LD_PRELOAD='/usr/lib32/libz.so.1.2.11' may help.

XCOM

Dependencies:

• librtmp0
• sdl2_image (required to enable keyboard functionality in-game)

Hangs on startup

If you are running a hybrid graphics system, try:

__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0 primusrun %command%

Graphical glitches on Intel HD

XCOM: Enemy Unknown may not recognize the SDL2 shared libraries shipped with the Steam runtime. Check if the binary finds all required files and install missing packages if necessary (sdl2 and sdl2_image).

ldd binaries/linux/game.x86_64