Steam fails to Launch game
When i try to launch any game in steam it comes up with preparing to launch for e.g Dota 2 then that box closes and never loads game up.
Any help would be appreciated.
Try this:
- Right click on TF2 in your library → Properties → Set Launch Options
- If you only have optirun, enter:
optirun %command%
The above did not work for me and I had to set the launch options as
LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 optirun %command%
This occurred for me after backing up a game. It would show the 'Preparing to launch' dialog box then close it without launching. The solution for me was this:
- Make a backup of the game.
- 'Delete local content' for the game (in
Right-click -> Delete local content) - Restore the game from your previous backup.
I got the same problem with other games and could fix it by out commenting the lines
GAME_DEBUGGER="strace -f -o strace.log" LD_PRELOAD=../src/thirdparty/gperftools-2.0/.libs/libtcmalloc_debug.so:$LD_PRELOAD
in the launch script, hope this helps