Trouble starting game through Steam

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I’m having issues starting a game through Steam. The error I get is:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/games/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

running ldd on the executable that starts the game suggests that some libraries are missing (I’ve omitted the ones that were found):

libX11.so.6 => not found
libGLU.so.1 => not found
libGL.so.1 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => not found
libz.so.1 => not found
libuuid.so.1 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => not found

So I created ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/steam.nix to try to install the libraries:

self: super:
{
  steam = super.steam.override {
    extraPkgs = pkgs: [ self.xlibs.libX11
                        self.xorg_sys_opengl
                        self.gcc-unwrapped.lib
                        self.gap-minimal
                        self.utillinux ];
  };
}

However the game still doesn’t start and the error message is the same. What is the next step(s) to take?

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This is often caused by games that set LD_LIBRARY_PATH without appending to it instead. What game is it?

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The game is Europa Universalist IV.

It was working last week but then they updated the game to 64-bit from 32 and now it crashes on launch.

I can get it to run outside steam using “steam-run”, though.

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I’ve been having issues with the same game. The update which switched from 32 to 64 bit also included a new launcher program, which may also be the cause of the issue. I’m planning to spend some time this weekend digging into it.

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Awesome. I’m busy through at least the first, but please do share any progress!

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@Taneb any luck getting EU4 to start through Steam?

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you may also want to try using the steam-run command. But I will see if I can’t get it working when I get home, as I also play EU4 :slight_smile:

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Thanks. I got it working through steam-run once but not since then.

Good luck, and let me know if you make progress!

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@jonringer Any luck? I was hoping to try the new Manchu patch this weekend :slight_smile:

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sorry, been busy with oxygen not included :). Trying it out now

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A little hacky, but it works:

$ nix-shell -p steam-run-native --run "steam-run ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Europa\ Universalis\ IV/eu4"
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I still get “error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32”

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make sure you got

  # for steam
  hardware.opengl.driSupport32Bit = true;

in your configuration.nix

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Thanks. Yes, I have that.

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you may want to try again, pretty sure steam: add at_spi2_atk to chrootenv by mweinelt · Pull Request #71394 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub incidentally fixed all the paradox launchers.

At the very least, it starts without any additional effort.

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Awesome, thanks for letting me know!

I had to uninstall then reinstall EU4 and steam and delete all the cached files but appears to be working flawlessly now. :slight_smile:

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Since my previous link just got 50 hits, this PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/106409 should have fixed the CK III launcher, and by extension, the other paradox launchers as well

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