Stellaris crashes under linux

[raulhax]

It'd been a couple years since I'd played Stellaris so I snagged the DLC I didn't own over the holiday sale. So far I've been unable to get the game to load. The launcher opens and appears to work fine (displays all of my DLC/etc), but when I click play the launcher disappears, a few seconds pass and Steam indicates the game is not running. No other popups, no errors, nichts.

I exported the launcher logs and the only possible error I could see was this:

2024-01-12T23:13:54.401Z (pid:172798) error [GamesHandler]: Couldn't check ownership status for the game null: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'keyValuePairsService')

I did a little googling and subsequently tried setting the permissions (recursively) of ~/.pdxlauncher to 775, but same error.

I just recently switched to nixOS, but this was also happening on endavourOS (arch-derivative) a month ago. Does anybody know of other log locations, or a potential fix?

Neofetch:

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[AndrewT]

FYI Ubuntu is the only supported distro for this game.

Firstly, if you are using the Flatpack or other similar Steam installation, please use this instead:

Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform

Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

store.steampowered.com

"Install Steam Now"

If that doesn't help, what do you see when you run ./stellaris from a terminal command line? Any useful output?

 

[raulhax]

FYI Ubuntu is the only supported distro for this game.

Firstly, if you are using the Flatpack or other similar Steam installation, please use this instead:
...
"Install Steam Now"

If that doesn't help, what do you see when you run ./stellaris from a terminal command line? Any useful output?

Hi there. Thanks for the response. No output, unfortunately. I tried to run with proton and it got similar results.

I have Steam installed via the nixOS repository, which appears to be the .deb package (i.e. not flatpak). However, since I was experiencing the same crash (with no stdout/stderr output when running ./stellaris directly) on EOS (arch linux), and there are a fairly large number of debian-based distro-users reporting similar/same problems, I don't believe it's a distro problem.

Are there any additional log files, etc that I can look for?

 

[AndrewT]

We don't officially support proton or wine installations I'm afraid. Just the native game on Linux.

I have Steam installed via the nixOS repository, which appears to be the .deb package

Can you 100% verify that please? It is the most common case of won't-start problems with this game on Linux right now.

since I was experiencing the same crash (with no stdout/stderr output when running ./stellaris directly)

So, no output seen at all when you do that?

 

[raulhax]

We don't officially support proton or wine installations I'm afraid. Just the native game on Linux.


Can you 100% verify that please? It is the most common case of won't-start problems with this game on Linux right now.


So, no output seen at all when you do that?

I have yet to encounter a windows game that doesn't work under wine/proton, but I understand.

Looking at the expression, it appears to be the normal, non-flatpak version. I don't know much about flatpak, to be honest. github:NixOS -> nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/games/steam/steam.nix#L13

Nope, no output at all. I'm going to try and get an Ubuntu VM running to see if there's any other output.

 

[raulhax]

We don't officially support proton or wine installations I'm afraid. Just the native game on Linux.


Can you 100% verify that please? It is the most common case of won't-start problems with this game on Linux right now.


So, no output seen at all when you do that?

well, I never got it working in a VM, but a random comment on protondb led me to try this variable and I got the game to launch to the main screen: `SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 %command%`. I also added `gamemoderun`, final launch options: `SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 gamemoderun %command%`

I do run wayland, so perhaps this was all that was needed.