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[Linux | Debian] Cannot launch dota 2 #2394
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Tried launching it with the Is DoTA launching for anyone on any linux distro? I'm open to testing other distro's as this is the only game that does not launch in my steam library. |
I can confirm that it is working for at least some people, on at least some distributions, with at least some GPUs: since the recent switch to the Steam Linux Runtime 3 'sniper' container runtime, I've run it successfully on Arch, Debian 12, Fedora 38 and Ubuntu 22.04. I see you're using Debian 12. It worked fine for me on Debian 12, but with a different AMD GPU (Vega 56 rather than Polaris 10), so I would expect that either there is some hardware-specific problem, or some aspect of your system configuration is not the same as mine. A Dota 2 developer might be able to get more insight by analyzing the crash dump that your system uploaded. |
I had this issue with the same crash gist. I resolved the issue by:
This is, quite obviously overkill, but it did work. I'm guessing that the crash gist is the result of missing files due to a failed upgrade from nvdia 525 to 535 and apt's refusal to upgrade the packages with broken dependencies. Good luck. |
This is great and helpful insight. The 'Out of Box Experience' should be as you stated above. I've been watching your steam client issue that you put in as well for movement or any update to the client itself. I appreciate the communication here @smcv I don't think I'm missing any drivers or packages that are needed as @ben-whale stated:
As ben's graphical hardware is different, I'm going to rule the fix of "judu55's drivers are the issue" out for now. |
I had same issue until I uninstall Steam from flatpak and install Steam as .deb, additionally now my system has nvidia-535.98 driver |
After working fine for a long time my dota 2 stopped launching. here is what I tried:
a more recent report of this bug (not by me and I did not know this old one also exist and is still open) Next I will try to uninstall steam snap package and install steam through .deb package. |
Hello @reevestrife, you're most likely seeing ValveSoftware/steam-runtime#640. |
Thank you! I installed Steam through .deb package instead of snap, and now everything is working again! Thank you so much for the fix. I really appreciate it! I also first installed a fresh version of Ubuntu 24.2 (I wanted to try it) but I am sure that was not the fix, as I have previously also installed a fresh Ubuntu and the problem persisted. |
Your system information
Steam
->Help
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) in a gist: Debian System SpecsPlease describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
This has been happening for about 2-3 weeks now. No matter what Distro I am on, Dota 2 refuses to launch since the new steam client update.
I click the 'Play' button and the state for the button changes to 'Running' and then immediately changes back to 'Play' without ever launching the game.
Crash gist
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