[TF2] [Linux] Nvidia driver 440.26 crashing TF2 at menu

[nightsky30]

After installing Nvidia driver version 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.10.2, TF2 is crashing while trying to load the main menu. The following error message is displayed:

Console.log shows the following:

For FCVAR_REPLICATED, ConVar must be defined in client and game .dlls (sv_use_steam_voice)
ProtoDefs post data loaded.
ProtoDefs loaded. 13.34 MB used
ProtoDefs post data loaded.
ProtoDefs loaded. 13.34 MB used
[TF Workshop] Got 36 subscribed maps, 36 new
maxplayers set to 24
Error: Material "debug/debugluxels" uses unknown shader "DebugLuxels"
FT_New_Memory_Face failed. font:HalfLife2 error:64
Out of memory or address space.  Texture quality setting may be too high.

Reverting to driver version 435.21-0ubuntu2 fixes the issue.

[dotWAVE]

Do you have issue with any other source 1 game? It happens to me with all of them.

[nightsky30]

Do you have issue with any other source 1 game? It happens to me with all of them.

I had not tried other source 1 games before switching back to 435.xx drivers, but I believe you. I think it is very possible that it affects them all.

[dotWAVE]

My issue turned out to be my filesystem and not my graphics driver.

[mastercoms]

This does not happen with Wayland, so it might be a problem with the Nvidia xorg driver.

[nightsky30]

Maybe same as #2876? But it looks like that was created 3 years ago?

[mastercoms]

The issue was not created for this crash, but people commented there about it since it was the same result (crash on start).

[mastercoms]

Seems to be a bug with OpenGL shader linking. If you create a folder in tf/custom called noshaderlinking and then create two empty files in that folder called glbaseshaders.cfg and glshaders.cfg, TF2 does not crash. Then, you can remove the folder once launching successfully.

[leinardi]

Can confirm the same issue after upgrading the Nvidia drivers from 435.21 to 440.26.

[nightsky30]

Same here. Thanks! @mastercoms

[huupoke]

I have upgraded the driver to 440.36 and it seems that solved the issue. Can anyone else also confirm this?

[nightsky30]

I have upgraded the driver to 440.36 and it seems that solved the issue. Can anyone else also confirm this?

They added a 440.31 package to the PPA within the last day or so. Not sure why not 440.36, but the latest 440 builds are still 440.26. I'll try when they update.