Can not launch the native version on Linux

[p4ssen]

System Information

• GPU: RX 6700 XT

• Driver/LLVM version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-arch1.2

• Kernel version: 6.6.1-arch1-1

• Link to full system information report: Gist

• Have you checked for system updates?

• Are you using the latest stable video driver available for your system?

• Have you verified the game files?

Issue

At first, the play button on steam library would turn blue for a few seconds and then back to green. Nothing else.

Tried proton and the game launched but I couldn't join or create any team. Turned off "Force Steam Play" afterwards.

Then I changed steam UI to English to copy my system info and tried to play again.
The game now starts a black screen and freezes with this alert.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Click play

[kisak-valve]

Hello @p4ssen, if you completely close Steam, then run steam-runtime from a terminal, that should let you see some terminal spew coming from Steam and games launched from Steam. When you tell Steam to start the game, can you check what executable is being called by Steam to start the game of if there's any other hints in the terminal spew?

The wine glass in the corner of the screenshot you shared looks like it's coming from wine, which hints that Dota Underlords for Windows is being run instead of Dota Underlords for Linux. I suspect you're seeing the issue being tracked at ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9875.

[p4ssen]

I suspect you're seeing the issue being tracked at ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9875.

After reading your reply, I checked the files and found only underlords.exe in /Underlords/game/bin/.
While /Underlords/game/bin/linuxsteamrt64/ has a steam_appid.txt and nothing else.

I did try proton when I couldn't launch native version and turned off "Force Steam Play" afterwards.
I guess that means there's another problem that Steam does not turn the game back to native version.

I uninstalled the game and turned off "Enable Steam Play for all other titles". But Steam downloaded Windows version still.
Toggling "Force Steam Play" multiple times did get Steam to download native files.

But the game still crash instantly. So the problem on native version still stands.
Terminal output of this crash:gist

[MalteJoe]

I'm having the same issue as @p4ssen, weirdly enough, after a steam runtime update today, I too had the wine dialog showing that steam must be running. Switching to Steam Play and back downloaded the Linux version again. But still, trying to start the (native) game, it immediately crashes:

 ~/p/g/s/s/c/Underlords  game/underlords.sh -vulkan_disable_steam_shader_cache
Using breakpad crash handler
[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Loaded '/home/malte/.local/share/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so' OK.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 1046930
Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit
05/08 08:45:37 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
05/08 08:45:37 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(1046930)/version(6937992)/tid(10427)
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198035324102 [API loaded yes]
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Setting Steam ID:  76561198035324102
src/tcmalloc.cc:390] Attempt to free invalid pointer: 0x55867dca9a10
crash_20240508084537_2.dmp[10439]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20240508084537_2.dmp
game/underlords.sh: Line 104: 10427 Aborted                 (core dumped) ${STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFIX} ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"
crash_20240508084537_2.dmp[10439]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20240508084537_2.dmp[10439]: response: Discarded=1
crash_20240508084537_2.dmp[10439]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20240508084537_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''Discarded=1''

Here's my System Info: https://gist.github.com/MalteJoe/2f788844737d2d207a83951406a493b1
And here's the mentioned dump (zipped): crash_20240508084537_2.zip

[kisak-valve]

Hello @MalteJoe, mesa built against LLVM 16 introduced an issue with some games that bundle libtcmalloc that looks like your symptom. This ended up being fixed in gcc 12 and newer, but the fix hasn't gotten widespread distribution yet. This will be fixed eventually by your distro's routine updates.

See ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games#5043 for similar discussion.

[MalteJoe]

Ah thanks for the heads up! Looks like GCC 14 was just released yesterday which should include the fixes, but as it has breaking changes, it might take distros some time to catch up. Or we have to wait for some backports