Crash on startup, Ubuntu

[ComplexToast]

A few weeks since I last played EU4 I now have the game crashing on launch every time I try to run it. I looked through FAQs and some of the many crash related posts on this forum, but none of what I found solved the issue. If there is a thread that answer this exact problem I would appreciate if somebody could direct me to it.

I use Ubuntu 20.04 and play the game on Steam, version 1.35.3, no mods. The game has worked perfectly on my PC for months and then one day suddenly didn't. It just crashed on startup. And it keeps crashing. I press Play in the steam library and the Paradox launcher appears, then I press Play and I get the loading screen, but before I get to the menu the game crashes and I get a message saying that something went wrong and caused the game to crash, and asks me to file a crash report. I looked at some posts to try and sort out the issue myself. A common fix was to do a clean reinstall, which I did, but that didn't work. Interestingly though, when I do a clean reinstall, the game starts normally, and I can start a single player game, but if I then simply quit to main menu it crashes in the same way again and I'm back at square one. I don't want to reinstall every time i start up the game.

 

[grotaclas]

This seems to be an issue with the new steam version which was released a few days ago. The steam overlay is crashing several games on Linux(I found reports that this also affects non-paradox games). The exception.txt in eu4 then shows things like

Caught signal 7 (SIGBUS)
[...]
Demangled Stack Trace:
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x27772)  [0x7f4d42626772]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x19dd5)  [0x7f4d42618dd5]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x23994)  [0x7f4d42622994]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x24152)  [0x7f4d42623152]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x25a6b)  [0x7f4d42624a6b]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so ( glXSwapBuffers                            + 0x55  )  [0x7f4d42615115]
  ./eu4                          ( GfxPresent                                + 0xd   )  [0x22ea824]
  ./eu4                          ( CGraphics::PresentScene()                 + 0x19  )  [0x20bc98b]

I know two workarounds:

• disable the steam overlay in the steam settings
• don't minimize eu4 while you wait for it to start. Alt-tabbing didn't crash it for me, but this might depend on the windowmanager and how it handles background windows

I'm using borderless fullscreen, but I don't know if that matters. Quitting to main menu also crashed for me when I still had the steam overlay active, but I didn't try it again after I deactivated the steam overlay.

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.

 

[ComplexToast]

This seems to be an issue with the new steam version which was released a few days ago. The steam overlay is crashing several games on Linux(I found reports that this also affects non-paradox games). The exception.txt in eu4 then shows things like

Caught signal 7 (SIGBUS)
[...]
Demangled Stack Trace:
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x27772)  [0x7f4d42626772]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x19dd5)  [0x7f4d42618dd5]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x23994)  [0x7f4d42622994]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x24152)  [0x7f4d42623152]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so (                                           + 0x25a6b)  [0x7f4d42624a6b]
  /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so ( glXSwapBuffers                            + 0x55  )  [0x7f4d42615115]
  ./eu4                          ( GfxPresent                                + 0xd   )  [0x22ea824]
  ./eu4                          ( CGraphics::PresentScene()                 + 0x19  )  [0x20bc98b]

I know two workarounds:

• disable the steam overlay in the steam settings
• don't minimize eu4 while you wait for it to start. Alt-tabbing didn't crash it for me, but this might depend on the windowmanager and how it handles background windows

I'm using borderless fullscreen, but I don't know if that matters. Quitting to main menu also crashed for me when I still had the steam overlay active, but I didn't try it again after I deactivated the steam overlay.

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.

Disabling Steam overlay worked. I have never encountered that before, and wouldn't have thought of it. Thank you.