Playing on linux - despair mode activated

[Persk1760]

Hi! Now, I don't know what the hell happened. Let me explain. Long story short, played over 180 hours in EA, just hit 30hours in my playthough since release.

Always played on linux ubuntu.
Had the occasional crashes but overall everything worked just fine.

Performances since release were great!

Last thursday, I was playing, did an alt-tab to look something, the game crashed. Had a Wine C++ message.

The problem is... the game never booted back up.
Like never, never.

So I went through 1000 steps, each worsening the state of my linux. I even went as far as removing some python dependecies, and was no longer able to boot in graphical mode.

So I managed to backup my savegame files. I reinstalled a clean ubuntu 23.04 sys. Redownloaded the whole game again. Installed the dependendies for everything... well I suppose.

And nothing works.

I'm about to give up and with quite a disgust try to install a damn windows just to play the game I was able to play with so much fun for so many hours.

I wonder what the hell have I done wrong, I'm the worst computer guy ever and I need your help because frankly... I really don't want to return to windows system :(

Of course i'll be able to provide logs and info if any of you is reading this instead of playing the amazing game.

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

I'm having trouble too, it just won't start at all. Not even the launcher pops up.

[Persk1760]

Originally posted by Dead Planets and Live TV:

I'm having trouble too, it just won't start at all. Not even the launcher pops up.

Haven't been able to find a workaround :(

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Persk1760:

Hi! Now, I don't know what the hell happened. Let me explain. Long story short, played over 180 hours in EA, just hit 30hours in my playthough since release.

Always played on linux ubuntu.
Had the occasional crashes but overall everything worked just fine.

Performances since release were great!

Last thursday, I was playing, did an alt-tab to look something, the game crashed. Had a Wine C++ message.

The problem is... the game never booted back up.
Like never, never.

So I went through 1000 steps, each worsening the state of my linux. I even went as far as removing some python dependecies, and was no longer able to boot in graphical mode.

So I managed to backup my savegame files. I reinstalled a clean ubuntu 23.04 sys. Redownloaded the whole game again. Installed the dependendies for everything... well I suppose.

And nothing works.

I'm about to give up and with quite a disgust try to install a damn windows just to play the game I was able to play with so much fun for so many hours.

I wonder what the hell have I done wrong, I'm the worst computer guy ever and I need your help because frankly... I really don't want to return to windows system :(

Of course i'll be able to provide logs and info if any of you is reading this instead of playing the amazing game.

Last thursday, you mean this thursday? The 17th?
Because if so...they redeployed the hotfix 4.0 and it caused massive issues for folks. Even on Windows. You can check posts initiated by アンジェル offering possible solutins, she is doing on her own a quite extensive investigation. There is now a call for possible fix to be tested by her. Sadly it is for Windows. So most likely your game might not even work on windows currently and you would be disgusted for nothing:(
BTW it seems to be that either the compiler issue they had in the last build was not fixed, or a new one emerged which is causing bugs for many folks.

I would advise you to go to Larian and report this, as they do not actually check this forum at all:(

[Persk1760]

Thanks for the answer! I've been looking for answers all over the place and I guess you are right. I think mostly i've followed good advices to make it work.

Now when I start the game from command prompt, I can see what happens. I've been installing .net dependencies, doing updates, winetricks is there, protontricks as well.

However, It happened before the deployment of the hotfix you said! It was like 5h30 am and I said thursday, might been as well wednesday, I'm not sure.

Here's what is returned when I try to launch baldur's gate 3 from steam now :

wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 1086940
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561198043356393 [API loaded no]
A fatal error occurred, the required library hostfxr.dll could not
be found in [Z:\home\borrte\.dotnet\host\fxr\7.0.10]
pid 4893 != 4892, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

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So i'm looking to find the said file and dump it into the folder...

[Persk1760]

dotnet --list-runtimesMicrosoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.21

[/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]

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dotnet --list-runtimesMicrosoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.21

[/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]

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wine --version

wine-8.0.2

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Persk1760:

dotnet --list-runtimesMicrosoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]

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dotnet --list-runtimesMicrosoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]

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wine --version

wine-8.0.2

So my knowledge of ubuntu and linux in general is very limited, i had like 12 classes of it in operation systems, and i forgot nearly everything i learned there simply because i dont use it. (Allthough i think i will switch over to Linux before accepting win 11:P)
So sadly these dont really mean much to me, beside that i need .NetCore 6.0 to code in VS:P

What i do know though, that Hotfix 4.0 the original had a compile issue, which thus made it into a build issue. It affected many people, it did not affect me though, and many others. So they rolled it back, which affected again a lot of people because their saves became uncompatible, and for a lot even after hotfix 4.0 they remain so. The redeployment of the hotfix seems to still contain either the same or a new compile issue. (SEEMS, i can only relay info i heard elsewhere.)
Also what also seems to cause massive issues is enabling cloud saves. For some reason the cloud save itself causes unprecedented bugs.
Like i read like 10 hours ago, that folks in multiplayer when saving their game get their friends character saves, instead of their own. This i would say hints at something gone terribly wrong with saves, and sessions, as it actually allows for another computer to save its information on yours, and it is not the cloud server....

[Persk1760]

So it may mean, in the end, that I was also a victim of said bugs, even though I know i've */&U(*! quite a bit, needing to clean reinstall my ubuntu system after doing several mistakes... :)

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Persk1760:

So it may mean, in the end, that I was also a victim of said bugs, even though I know i've */&U(*! quite a bit, needing to clean reinstall my ubuntu system after doing several mistakes... :)

Possible. As i said i am not that well versed about Linux, i am more like an information gatherer and broker here:D Allthough i just share them and not sell themXD
If you had cloud save enabled then likely. I basicly suggest most folks to not use steams or galaxy's cloud save because those system are troublesome on their own and can cause serious issues. (Not to mention often synching takes longer than making a hard copy of the save and carrying it on a pendrive and thereafter copying it to the other pc.)

[Persk1760]

Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561198043356393 [API loaded no]
It was not possible to find any compatible framework version
The specified framework 'Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App', version '6.0.0' was not found.
- No frameworks were found.

You can resolve the problem by installing the specified framework and/or SDK.

The .NET Core frameworks can be found at:
- https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

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however when I do

$ wine --version

wine-8.0.2

$ dotnet --list-sdks

6.0.121 [/usr/lib/dotnet/sdk]
7.0.110 [/usr/lib/dotnet/sdk]

dotnet --list-runtimes

Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.aspnetcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.21 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/microsoft.netcore.app]

-- So i copied the content of 6.0.21 to the bg pfx drive folder but ... :(