[Solved] Cannot run native version of Metro Exodus (Steam)

[corrosif]

Hi,

A native GNU/Linux version of Metro Exodus has been recently released, and is available from Steam.
Interestingly, it is using recent Vulkan ray-tracing API.

Here is my computer:

[Ionen]

[corrosif]

Thanks for your response.

You are correct, I was looking inside the wrong directory for the lib associated to my 64bit system.
I have now looked into /usr/lib64, and in it, I can indeed find the following files:

[krumpf]

I'm not sure, but since you're using KDE, could your issue be caused by Wayland ?
Check this comment and that one
Anyway, good luck

[corrosif]

This is a good hint, but no, I'm not using Wayland.
Instead, I'm using Xorg with nVidia proprietary drivers, through Plasma:

[Naib]

What does dmesg say?
The reason i ask is I can't launch.

There was a locale issue (easy to add US), missing ibus ... But I keep getting a general protection fault associated with libX11
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[corrosif]

Since I'm using a French locale, I have tried to run Metro Exodus with following parameter:

[Siarhei]

Hi, Metro exodus also does not start. I have gentoo and I always get a warning message from Steam "/home/searhey/.local/share/Steam has both 'SteamApps' and 'steamapps' directories.
This will cause problems. Please fix manually and only keep 'steamapps'".
Steam cannot find the startup file. I don't know

[corrosif]

On my side, in "~/local/share/Steam", I only have one "steamapps" directory (spelled with lowercase).
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S'il n'y a pas de solution, alors il n'y a pas de problème (logique Shadok).

[Siarhei]

[Naib]

Launching from the command line:

[Siarhei]

My dmesg:

[corrosif]

Naib,

You were right about missing ibus being a potential problem!
When trying to start the game from the command line (instead from the Steam GUI), from where it is installed, I got a much more explicit error message:

[corrosif]

Naib, Siarhei,

My current problem now is not related to ratio nor resolution (editing the game's user.cfg from my home directory didnt't help).
I'm having the exact same crash as you both in your latest posts, and with gdb, exact same thing as Naib:

[Naib]

So there is something about how binaries are built on Gentoo (or more specifically ubuntu..) which is causing these issues.

The solution is to enable SRL for Metro... The problem at the moment is the present container (soldier) is lacking libibus and thus will not work. This has been reported to Valve so an update to the container should be due soon(tm)

Hopefully this will all metro to work as it is a sandbox set of libraries ... there is the nasty memory leak that the game has but that is another problem (set to MEDIUM graphics or lower)
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[Naib]

try using a specific steam runtime. SCOUT is the default while soldier is the newer one. Works well and the game is pretty good... be it leaky (keep at medium for now)
in the launch options put this, obviously with the path for your location of SteamLibrary

/opt/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/run-in-soldier %command%
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[Siarhei]

Naib, You are a magician . Thank you so much. At your prompt, the game is working. Sound problem only - crackling sound in the game. In proton's version I was possible to change the sound system. There is no such thing in the native version

[Siarhei]

I removed the crackle of sound in the game like this: in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed string to "default-fragments = 5" and "default-fragment-size-msec = 2". The game now works fine with good performance on my graphics card gtx1070

[corrosif]

Thank you Naib!
With your solution (run-in-soldier), the native game now runs fine on my system (RTX also works fine).
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S'il n'y a pas de solution, alors il n'y a pas de problème (logique Shadok).

[Siarhei]

I don't know what happened, but now the game has stopped starting

[corrosif]

Same for me: It doesn't work anymore, even when using run-in-soldier solution.
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S'il n'y a pas de solution, alors il n'y a pas de problème (logique Shadok).

[Linubie]

I have the same issue:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1140616.html
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[Naib]

So the tip last time was to force the soldier pressure vessel.

Now you don't need to explicitly state the pressure vessel but you do need to force it to use steam runtime (ie scout)

1) remove the launch arguement
2) Compatibility -> "Force to use of ..."
3) select Steam Linux Runtime
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[corrosif]

Thanks Naib, with your new solution it is now working fine on my system!
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S'il n'y a pas de solution, alors il n'y a pas de problème (logique Shadok).

[Siarhei]

Thanks Naib, your new solution works for me too