Victoria III - Game won't launch

[Flavius Anthemius]

Short summary of your issue
Game won't launch

Game Version
Latest

What OS are you playing on?
Linux

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Have you tried verifying your game files?
No

How much "pain" is this causing you?
10

Please explain the issue you experienced in the most condensed way possible
Game is missing library

Please explain how to reproduce the issue
Be on linux, be on steam, launch the game, launch the game, accept the conditions, launch the game. Game doesn't launch

Is there anything else you think could help us identify/replicate the issue?
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/xxx/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/xxx/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
./victoria3: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have attached a save game
No

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[Seine Eloquenz]

While I can't solve this on Paradox's End, you can work around this issue until it's fixed for now.
The problem is that Vicky depends on libtinfo.so.6 which seems to not be part of steam runtime or the game itself.
So you can workaround it by providing the shared library yourself.

libtinfo.so.6 is part of ncurses-libs, so either install the corresponding package for your distro and it might already work if you're lucky.
If such a package does not exist or it does not work, download a package containing the library for your architecture and extract it somewhere.
In Steam go to library -> Victoria3 -> properties -> general -> launch options and add:

LD_PRELOAD=/absolute/path/to/libtinfo.so.6 %command%.

This should make the game start until the problem is fixed upstream.

I hope this does help you.

 

[Flavius Anthemius]

While I can't solve this on Paradox's End, you can work around this issue until it's fixed for now.
The problem is that Vicky depends on libtinfo.so.6 which seems to not be part of steam runtime or the game itself.
So you can workaround it by providing the shared library yourself.

libtinfo.so.6 is part of ncurses-libs, so either install the corresponding package for your distro and it might already work if you're lucky.
If such a package does not exist or it does not work, download a package containing the library for your architecture and extract it somewhere.
In Steam go to library -> Victoria3 -> properties -> general -> launch options and add:

This should make the game start until the problem is fixed upstream.

I hope this does help you.

Thanks for the help, i did something like that and now can run the game.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/lib" binaries/victoria3

 

[lazyest]

but problem still persists as for end of Jul 2024

 

[AndrewT]

but problem still persists as for end of Jul 2024

Always best to start a new thread, not "me too" an old one like this.

Are you also on Linux, if so did those same steps help you?