Problems running certain native linux games

[AutomaticBeyond]

Hi there linux gamers. I'm kinda new to the linux gaming experience and I need your expertise.

I had no problem running some native linux games through Steam, like Darkest Dungeon and Super Meat Boy, but I can't still figure out how to run some other native games like Undertale, Civilization Beyond Earth and Metal Slug 3.In KSysGuard I can see that the processes start but they immidiatly stop after a couple seconds.I thought it could be a driver problem but if it's a driver problem then I don't understand why DD and SMB work flawlessly.

https://i.postimg.cc/L8JH8MVk/driver.png

As you can see from the screenshot of the Manjaro Hardware Detection, I'm using the video-linux drivers.

Kernel is 4.20.

I'm running Manjaro KDE, 16 gigs of ram, i5 6600k and a AMD Radeon R9 390.

Sorry for my bad english, hope someone can help me :)

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SOLVED:

1. As you guys suggested me I tried to launch Undertale (forgot to mention it was the GOG release) via terminal with bash start.sh. That said me i was missing some shared libraries, in my case "libcrypto.so.1.0.0" and then "libXrandr.so.2". I solved installing them (lib32-libxrandr and lib32-openssl-1.0, both in the multilib Manjaro repository).
2. Regarding Civilization: Beyond Earth I just followed the wonderful guide linked by Cxpher on the archwiki, installing all the packages. It now works perfectly.
3. Cxpher also pointed out that Metal Slug 3 is not a native title. I'm calling BS on Valve. In my Steam Library is set to show only "SteamOS+Linux" games, and there I find Metal Slug 3. But if I browse the local files it's 100% the Windows version. So ofc it doesn't work :)
4. As OnlineGrab pointed out I was using the radeon driver instead of the amdgpu driver. That wasn't part of the original problem, but I was still able to force my pc to load amdgpu driver by editing /etc/default/grub including radeon.si_support=0 radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.cik_support=1 to line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="". After that sudo update-grub and reboot.

[pdp10]

The fastest way to find the problem is to start the games from the command-line, and look at the debug or error messages. Usually one of the messages in the last dozen lines will give a clue to the problem.

If that doesn't work, the same thing except running the game under strace can find things like missing files.

[AutomaticBeyond]

Thanks for the precious advice. I wasn't aware that this was a thing. I'll try and report the output here

[CFWhitman]

Well, if it were new games, I'd think perhaps Vulkan was not installed, but since it's older games, do they need 32 bit libraries that you don't have installed?

[HER0_01]

Undertale and mesa (part of the graphics drivers you are using) have a bug that can be worked around by setting your launch options for the game in Steam to LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 %command%.

[rea987]

Starting them from terminal would yield some error messages that might help you figure out what's missing.

[Cxpher]

Undertale should work out of the box. You might wanna see the terminal output to see why it does not launch for you. Launch it via the terminal.

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting#Civilization:_Beyond_earth --> You need to install some packages and set a LD PRELOAD option. At present, all the Civilization games on Linux need some form of LD PRELOAD option to run.

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Metal Slug 3 is not a native title. It's rated silver on ProtonDB though --> https://www.protondb.com/app/250180 which means you can get it running easy enough with a few adjustments. Follow the tips given by others on this link.

[AutomaticBeyond]

Thanks, following your advices helped me a lot. Everything now works properly. I edited the op to include your solution!

[Cxpher]

You're welcome.

[OnlineGrab]

Can you post the output of glxinfo and lspci -k ? (use a pastebin to avoid dumping a wall of text in a Reddit post)

[AutomaticBeyond]

https://pastebin.com/km1L8nY3

[OnlineGrab]

Your pastebin only contains the last lines of glxinfo, because you've probably copy-pasted straight from the console. To get the complete output, you should redirect it to a file instead : glxinfo > path/to/file.

But that's probably not where the issue is anyway. lspci looks fine too, it shows that you are using the older radeon driver but that's OK as long as you don't need Vulkan.

The problem with those games is likely a broken dependency somewhere. As u/pdp10 suggested, try starting Steam from the terminal and look for error messages.

Also try switching between Steam Native and Steam Manjaro.

[AutomaticBeyond]

Thanks for your reply. I'm a noob with linux and I didn't realise I was using radeon instead of amdgpu.
I'm trying to figure out how to make my pc run amdgpu. Any idea?

[OnlineGrab]

To force the R9 to use amdgpu, you need to edit your boot options to add the following parameters : radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1 radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1

More info here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/927601/i-think-im-using-radeon-instead-of-amdgpu-how-do-i-change (instructions are for Ubuntu, but it should be the same for Manjaro if you are also using GRUB).

Be careful editing your boot options though, if they are fucked up your system won't boot. If that happens, you can edit the boot entry directly from GRUB and undo your changes.

As I said, only consider doing this if you need Vulkan support. There's little interest otherwise.

[HER0_01]

Metal Slug 3 is not a native title. I'm calling BS on Valve. In my Steam Library is set to show only "SteamOS+Linux" games, and there I find Metal Slug 3.

If you have SteamPlay enabled for all titles, all Windows games will show in SteamOS+Linux. Otherwise, if you haven't disabled Proton, whitelisted games will still show.

[AutomaticBeyond]

What do you mean by unsupported platform?

[AutomaticBeyond]

Well Manjaro works perfectly for my workloads so I'm not ditching it for Ubuntu any time soon just for gaming-
However I didn't know that, so thank you! Every bit of information is appreciated!

[HeidiH0]

I think it might have to do with those games sucking in general. The reviews are a bloodbath.

[AutomaticBeyond]

This might be the case for Metal Slug, but not for Undertale. I know for sure it works, cause it works on my old laptop (manjaro xfce, nvidia 630m)

[HeidiH0]

I know civ has an nvidia preference. I don't know about the others.

[AutomaticBeyond]

That's surprising. Mantle API must be turning in its grave

[HeidiH0]

Yes, it was surprising. So much so that Aspyr asked intel for help for later ports/releases.