Confirmed CK III - Game refuses to launch with Steam Runtime Environment on Linux (1.8.0)

[Arakrates]

Heya @Satcharna and thank you for your report.
As I am currently investigating this issue, may I ask what version of Ubuntu you are currently running?

 

[Divine]

You definitely have the right idea that the missing library was the critical issue here. The library is part of Ubuntu 20.06 LTS so if your distribution doesn't contain then it's the right call that it's a required install. Weird to hear that it took some attempts for it to actually work properly. Did you perhaps reboot Steam and/or your machine at any point between it not working and when it started to work properly?

 

[Divine]

Hmm I can't really explain it either but I did find this:

Yesterday Steam actually did a client update with the following line in their changelog.

News - Steam Client Update Released

store.steampowered.com

Linux

• Fixed overlay causing crashes on some native games (Borderlands 2)

It's still unlikely but not impossible that we started to call something more from the Steamlib (perhaps from changes in our engine) that caused us to get the same issue that Borderlands 2 had. Which was then resolved by Steam yesterday after some hours of overlap in between these events.

 

[Divine]

Interesting use-case with the fresh-install. Might be something we can look into in the future if we have any way of resolving from our side.

Unfortunately integrated graphics are likely going to struggle with the newer PDS games because of our heavy priority of CPU-time for gameplay logic calculations and heavier resource usage overall than older PDS games.