[2023] (linux) Game missing backgrounds, models, etc...

TimekillerTK said: The confusing part is that uninstalling/reinstalling the game doesn't resolve the issue.

Uninstalling in Steam only removes files that Steam put there.


Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user empire designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris folders - In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris locations, before installing again.
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- start the game with no mods active and test

All the best!  

FYI running the game under Proton or any emulation layer is not strictly speaking supported. You also get this issue when running Stellaris as a purely native Linux executable?

Unfortunately we didn't get any details of the OP's hardware or software, so we can't tell if there is any commonality - say video system, or Linux distro.

You are on the latest AMD proprietary video driver, and the latest Mesa version?


Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .

Also in Steam please click on Steam-Help-System Info, and paste everything there into a text file and attach that here.  

Eolanna said: Not forcing any compatibility layer only causes the launcher to crash when trying to open the EULA, though I suspect it is something else that's causing the crash as it crashed on the Launcher on "dcaf" as well. Even if it did not try to show the EULA, so I think it's something in the update (check) process that's crashing it.

Launcher 2023.14 has a bug where it crashes on Linux. That is fixed in later versions, but the update process can also fail - tricky! Can you see what launcher version you are on?

Eolanna said: As mentioned in my post above there is no "Stellaris" folder in "~/Documents/Paradox Interactive/", but it's found in "~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/" instead.

I use the generic description Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ for all OSs, I'm not meaning to imply it is literally in a folder called documents. If you go into the pinned thread above with "file locations" in the title it specifies exactly where the folders are.

Eolanna said: I did, however, attach the "pdx_settings.txt" file I found in there, as there was none of the other files located in there. Due to the launcher crashing before I have a chance to start the game, I presume.

Running the executable ./stellaris bypasses the launcher, and ought to create a settings.txt file.  

We're really in the wrong thread to work on this problem!

Eolanna said: Package: steam-launcher Version: 1:1.0.0.78

When I look at my installation, it says Version 1702079146 from December 8. You are getting your client from here?

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Eolanna said: I don't seem to be able to download the Linux native version, for some odd reason. I've tuned off "Compability mode for all titles" in steam, but I can't turn off SteamPlay fully. If I were to venture a guess, it might be due to the fact that I got games installed that are windows-only.
However, that should not download and install a Windows client, if there's a native Linux client available. Not sure if this is a bug with Steam, or the Steam listing for Stellaris.

That's a huge problem, which I've seen a few instances of recently. My Linux instance gets the native version just fine. So I suspect that Steam is confused by your mix of Windows and Linux in the same download destination, as you say. What to do about that I have no idea!  

No need to bump; I saw your post, I just didn't have anything useful to offer you. If as you say this is an issue with Steam or the launcher, or both, I couldn't come up with any way forward. We can't lodge this as a game bug as you are on an unsupported distro.

Why this game only (so far as I know) sometimes downloads the Windows version of the game is beyond me. I'd refer you to Steam support (since it is they who make that detection) but IMO the odds of them being very helpful are pretty low! But you could try I guess; they may at least be able to say "aha, your game lacks this tag in our download servers" or something like that.  

That tag would be in the Steam system online, I'd think, not on the downloaded file as such. There's be no point in it being on your machine, as the problem has already occurred by then!