Post #3107527

2025-11-14 19:32 UTC

@ari@fedi.arimelody.space Sounds like an installation issue with the wrapper libraries. Perhaps you can give the nix instructions on the wiki a try instead? https://wiki.fex-emu.com/index.php/Development:Setting_up_Library_Forwarding#Generic_Nix_fallback (Vulkan probably didn't cause any issues because you didn't test any 32-bit title that use it)

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@ari@fedi.arimelody.space 2025-11-21 15:11

@neobrain@mastodon.social thanks for the tip! (and apologies it took a while to respond- very busy with college and i had to swap drives for this setup) i gave this a go, but unfortunately it didn't seem to change anything. i did notice something interesting, though: the aforementioned ELFCLASS32 errors are actually being ignored by steam according to logs, and they all come from gameoverlayrenderer.so? half-life still fails to launch with GL forwarded, but i can't see any other stdout lines that would reflect a crash reason. just to verify on the side: it's not documented on the wiki, but i assume the flow is cmake -DBUILD_THUNKS=True ., followed by ninja guest-libs, then finally cp Guest/lib*-guest.so /usr/share/fex-emu/GuestThunks/? in any case, having any combination of asound, drm, or WaylandClient enabled causes steamwebhelper to consistently fail to launch, and GL forwarding results in these issues running half-life on my setup.

Open ##3107528