Native linux support not working

[l3mur]

When I go to launch the title, it crashes immediately.

I have been able to run it under proton, but performance is terrible. Here is my system info:


Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASRock
Model: X570M Pro4
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
CPU Family: 0x17
CPU Model: 0x71
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4672 MHz
24 logical processors
12 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
"Arch Linux" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.6.7-arch1-1
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12302003
X Window Manager: wlroots wm
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20231127.68515
Video Card:
Driver: AMD AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (navi21, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.6.7-arch1-1)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-arch1.2
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 143 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x73bf
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Desktop Resolution: 6400 x 2160
Primary Display Size: 23.62" x 13.39" (27.13" diag), 60.0cm x 34.0cm (68.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 16384 MB
Sound card:
Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI
Memory:
RAM: 32019 Mb
VR Hardware:
Headset: Valve Index (lighthouse)
Base station or sensor: Valve Corporation Valve SR Imp (lighthouse)
Base station or sensor: Valve Corporation Valve SR Imp (lighthouse)
Controller: Valve Knuckles Left (lighthouse)
Controller: Valve Knuckles Right (lighthouse)
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 758053 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 87130 MB
Storage:
Number of SSDs: 6
SSD sizes: 2048G,1024G,500G,250G,0B,0B
Number of HDDs: 0
Number of removable drives: 0

[Trescott]

libtcmalloc_minimal.so.0

that is bundled with the Linux version of the game is bad. (If you start Steam from a console you can see the error messages of the games launched from steam.) It is crashing because of a bad pointer.

To fix it, replace that file with one from your system. From the "Half-Life Alyx" steam folder (in /home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/) Run these commands:

rm game/bin/linuxsteamrt64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.0
cp /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so game/bin/linuxsteamrt64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.0

[Trescott]

Looks like the code block in my post is wrapping. That is only 2 lines. Copy-Paste to avoid confusion.