Borderlands 2 Steam

xvzf · 2017-01-13 11:55:27

Hi everyone,

Not an urgent problem or so - I installed steam and a few games out of my library which support SteamOS/Linux. Counterstrike runs just fine but I am facing problems launching Borderlands 2 - it refuses to startup without any error message!

Has anybody an idea what could cause this to happen or maybe has a possible fix?

I am running the latest lts kernel with the latest nvidia driver for the lts branch. My GPU should't be the problem, it is a GTX1080.

Cheers,
Matthias

WorMzy · 2017-01-13 12:23:40

These sorts of problems are usually caused by steam runtime issues. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … ime_issues

If you still can't get it working, run steam from a terminal and post the output you get when running the game.

Ropid · 2017-01-13 15:59:19

In the Steam client, set the launch options for Borderlands 2 to this:

LD_PRELOAD= %command%

It should then work. You don't need to do anything to the Steam runtime.

xvzf · 2017-01-15 12:59:53

Ropid wrote:

In the Steam client, set the launch options for Borderlands 2 to this:
LD_PRELOAD= %command%
It should then work. You don't need to do anything to the Steam runtime.

Worked, thank you! Unfortunately, my savegames are gone and my mouse sensitivity is waaaay to high... (360 Degrees for a mm...) Maybe I have to setup a kvm and passthrough my GPU.. CS GO works fine

Ropid · 2017-01-15 19:51:05

xvzf wrote:

Worked, thank you! Unfortunately, my savegames are gone and my mouse sensitivity is waaaay to high... (360 Degrees for a mm...) Maybe I have to setup a kvm and passthrough my GPU.. CS GO works fine

Now that you mention that, I remember that mouse sensitivity problem from when I played through Borderlands 2. Looking through my stuff here, I found an old Python script to configure values outside of what's available with the slider in the game's UI. You need a script for this because the game's config is not a text file. It uses a binary format and there's a check-sum that needs to be updated.

Here's the script:

http://pastie.org/private/umkmyaxipmvemmhrijij8q

I think the VM idea won't work as it seems the problem is also on Windows. The script was originally for Windows. I got it from a forum post somewhere and changed the file paths in it for Linux.

EDIT:

This here must have been the forum post where I got the script:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/49520/dis … 527726404/

It's the post by that "Kaathan" nick. He describes steps to find the correct position for the sensitivity in the config file. That might be important if something about the position changed over the years.

Last edited by Ropid (2017-01-15 19:57:51)

xvzf · 2017-01-16 09:12:51

Ropid wrote:

xvzf wrote:
Worked, thank you! Unfortunately, my savegames are gone and my mouse sensitivity is waaaay to high... (360 Degrees for a mm...) Maybe I have to setup a kvm and passthrough my GPU.. CS GO works fine
Now that you mention that, I remember that mouse sensitivity problem from when I played through Borderlands 2. Looking through my stuff here, I found an old Python script to configure values outside of what's available with the slider in the game's UI. You need a script for this because the game's config is not a text file. It uses a binary format and there's a check-sum that needs to be updated.
Here's the script:
http://pastie.org/private/umkmyaxipmvemmhrijij8q
I think the VM idea won't work as it seems the problem is also on Windows. The script was originally for Windows. I got it from a forum post somewhere and changed the file paths in it for Linux.
EDIT:
This here must have been the forum post where I got the script:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/49520/dis … 527726404/
Thanks a lot! I will have a look at weekend!
It's the post by that "Kaathan" nick. He describes steps to find the correct position for the sensitivity in the config file. That might be important if something about the position changed over the years.

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#1 2017-01-13 11:55:27

Borderlands 2 Steam

#2 2017-01-13 12:23:40

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