Steam game Black Desert no longer launches

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Hello,

I have successfully launched Black Desert from my Steam Library on Garuda before, but starting a few days ago it no longer launches. For those unfamiliar, this is a game that has its own launcher that appears after you press play in Steam. In my issue, pressing Play in Steam will begin loading the game, show the logo that normally precedes its own launcher appearing, but the launcher never appears, and then Steam clearly aborts the process of attempting to load the game.

Other games do successfully run right now, this issue seems to be limited to Black Desert currently.

I normally use Steam (native), but I have replicated this error on both Steam (native) as well as Steam (runtime). I have also attempted to change which proton version I am using from hotfix (which was set by default) to an earlier numbered version but this doesnt seem to change the behavior so I am skeptical it’s a proton issue…

I should mention, I recently changed from an nvidia card to a new AMD 9070 XT. I believe I did this correctly, but I suppose if I haven’t, it might be related.

I ran

journalctl -x -e

after attempting to launch black desert, and saw the following curious results:

May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: Adding process 26621 for gameID 582660
May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/run/host/usr/NX/lib/libnxegl.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: Adding process 26621 for gameID 582660
May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/run/host/usr/NX/lib/libnxegl.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: Adding process 26621 for gameID 582660
May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/run/host/usr/NX/lib/libnxegl.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
May 28 13:30:40 veltas-prime steam[4937]: Adding process 26631 for gameID 582660
May 28 13:30:41 veltas-prime steam[4937]: pid 26546 != 26545, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
May 28 13:30:41 veltas-prime steam[4937]: Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=582660]

I checked the directory mentioned in the errors above and it doesn’t seem to exist - i have no /host inside /run ! which I suppose may be a problem, but I really don’t know what that implies. Did I have a host folder in run before? I don’t think I’ve gone around manually deleting things… I don’t think it’s a hidden folder, or else ls -a would show it, right?

╭─veltas@veltas in /🔒 took 0s
╰─λ cd /run/host/usr/NX/lib/
cd: The directory “/run/host/usr/NX/lib/” does not exist

I searched for the error in my log and found some potentially related posts on this forum and elsewhere:
Steam games fail to start - this seemed to have the same error in the log that user posted, but is related to something called Mangohud or goverlay which I do not have installed.

edit:

I do have a similar location elsewhere in /usr/NX/lib/ - does Steam just think i have this stuff in the wrong location? Do I need to create some symbolic links or reinstall something?

╭─veltas@veltas in /run🔒 took 0s
╰─λ printenv "LD_PRELOAD"
/usr/NX/lib/libnxegl.so

Anyway this scenario is very peculiar. I hope I have followed the template and recommendations for posting appropriately but please let me know if there’s anything I can do to better ask for help.

Here’s my inxi:

System:
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   dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
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   part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1415 date: 05/16/2023
CPU:
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   gpu: lact,nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
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   serial: <filter>
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   speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-5.4:11 chip-ID: 046d:085c class-ID: 0102
   serial: <filter>
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Network:
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Bluetooth:
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 SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
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Sensors:
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Info:
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Garuda (2.7.2-1):
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 Failed units:
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Please do not correct my changes.
Thank you.

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Hello,

Sorry - My mistake. I edited the text of the post but did not first refresh the page to see that a moderator had edited the tags, so my edit then superseded with my stale information from my unrefreshed session i think?

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Welcome to the forum. :slightly_smiling_face:

I’m not a gamer, but obviously you didn’t uninstall the nvidia drivers before you installed the AMD GPU - or not completely, there are leftovers. Post the output of:

pacman -Qs nvidia

Also check if vulkan-radeon is installed:

pacman -Qs vulkan-radeon

If not, install it with:

sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon
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╭─veltas@veltas in ~
╰─λ pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.19-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-x11 1.0.1-1
NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 570.153.02-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/mhwd-nvidia 570.153.02.1-1
NVIDIA pci id list for MHWD
local/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.143-1
mhwd-nvidia-390xx PCI ID database
local/mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.94-1
mhwd-nvidia-470xx PCI ID database
local/nvidia-utils 570.153.02-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities

╭─veltas@veltas in ~ took 0s
╰─λ pacman -Qs vulkan-radeon
local/vulkan-radeon 1:25.1.1-1
Open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs

I did use Octopi to remove some Nvidia packages, which seemed like picking one also removed 30-some related dependencies - But I see now that may have been insufficient. (or wait a minute, maybe not insufficient but actually catastrophic - just what did get removed? That might teach me to look more carefully.) Without an Nvidia card anymore, are any of the pacman -Qs nvidia results relevant to me anymore? Should I remove them all?

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We do not recommend using gui tools like octopi to install/uninstall packages (but they are good for searching). We generally recommend using pacman in the terminal to install and remove packages.

You can remove these packages:

sudo pacman -R egl-gbm egl-wayland egl-x11 nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils

If there are issues with dependencies when removing, please post the corresponding output.

You should leave libvdpau and lib32-libvdpau on, this is normally required by ffmpeg, steam and proton-ge-custom.

And please check if vulkan-mesa-layers is installed, if not → install.

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Well, lesson learned there - in pacman I trust from here on out. Octopi for viewing, Pacman for doing. And carefully uninstall existing GPU drivers before installing new.

Before seeing your comment, I did something reckless and unasked for. I uninstalled nvidia-utils using octopi, saw that nvidia-utils somehow had 200+ dependencies, knew that couldn’t possibly make sense, but I went for the package removal anyway. It was like the call of the abyss. I then watched in fascination as the uninstall removed almost everything - parts of my desktop vanished, icons disappeared - and even with Firedragon uninstalled, this open window remains. Sorry, Nepti, in hindsight I realize this was rude of me to do that while you are helping me and is an anticlimactic and sudden ending for the specific and careful help you’ve provided so far. In the future when I come to the forums for advice, I will refrain from acting out of turn.

Fortunately, this is only a gaming machine, and I have plenty of backups and separate machines as well, so it will be quick to just reinstall Garuda fresh from a USB stick. I actually still have pacman and a terminal open, so I suppose I could try to rebuild from here, but it’s probably wiser to just start over with the install media.

Thanks for your time and sorry for the chaos. I imagine my game will run fine on a fresh install.

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We don’t normally recommend this, but in your case I think a reinstallation makes the most sense. This gives you a clean starting point (and you will also have learned a lesson). :slight_smile:

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Thanks again, and I hope future readers either learn too or at least find this funny. Until next time!!

next day edit - reinstall is complete. everything launches fine now. I had working snapshots i could have rolled back to as well, but felt like a reinstall would be a clean slate.

I am a bit curious about how or why my machine ever thought so many other packages depended on the nvidia drivers, but that’s all in the past now. i probably mangled things up by using a mix of octopi and discover and other package managers all battling each other – pacman only from now on.

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Did they change the anticheat? Since it used that super toxic malware one. at least last i played the game in jan, if you do get it going id recommend a alt account since they used to ban ppl in the past trying to make it work on linux.

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they used xigncode long ago, switched to easyanticheat at some point, and switched back to xigncode i suppose a year or two ago.
after the change back to xigncode, people report it runs fine on linux and i haven’t heard of bans for that.

that is a good thing to consider, though. BDO’s been one of my on & off addictions for around 8 years now so I shouldn’t be careless about something that could lead to an account restriction.

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if on a test account they dont ban you for 6 months or so id say it might be alright but yeah i keep winblows on a usb stick just for bdo lol. At least tell they say its fine. though one of the private sever ones might be fun to play if you can get it going

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