Steam Play - Preparing to Launch

**Arachan** · September 11th, 2018

Hi all,

I've recently come back to Ubuntu, in part because of the Steam Play announcement by Valve.

When I first installed Steam, I was able to run the one game I tried (Call of Duty MW2).

Since then I've tried many different things to try to get various games working. Unfortunately now every Steam Play game shows the pop up "Preparing to Launch" and then nothing. Running steam from CLI doesn't give any debug info at all.

My current setup (please let me know what else I can add):
Ubuntu 18.04
Steam with Proton 3.7-3 "Enable for all titles"
GTX 970 with Nvidia 396.54 driver
Games are installed on ext4 partition and game cache has been verified

If it matters, native Linux steam games seem fine, as well as Battle.net and Blizzard games.

Please let me know what I can try? Really trying to avoid a fresh OS install.

Kind regards,
ara

**oldrocker99** · September 11th, 2018

Ok, I have successfully installed and played these games which were in my library from my long-gone dual-booting days:

Bejewled 2 Deluxe
Age of Empires II:HD
BioShock (The Remastered edition did not run on my i3 laptop, but it is what it is)
Banisheding
Anachronox
Consortium
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Fallout Shelter
Magic 2014
X-COM:UFO Defense (the revered original X-COM)

There are a few others I haven't tried. about 50% of the games I had bought for Windows came out for Linux, and appeared in my library thanks to Canonical's and Steam's diligent efforts.

Perhaps others could list successful installations. I didn't install all of them, Skyrim for example. When I finally get my Ryzen 5 2600 built

, I'll ditch my PlayOnLinux Steam for Windows and play contentedly on my Ubuntu MATE (the best distro available, IMHO) rig.

Finally.