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Football manager 2019 Refuses to launch due to SteamAPI unable to initialize

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ValveSoftware/Proton#2402 · opened 2019-03-11 by celebdor · updated 2019-03-12 · 2 comments · github
Ccelebdor 2019-03-11 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Football Manager 2019
  • Steam AppID of the game: 872790

System Information

  • GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520
  • Driver/LLVM version: mesa-libGL-18.3.4-1
  • Kernel version: 4.19.2-301.fc29.x86_64
  • Link to full system information report as System information:
  • Proton version: 3.16-8

I confirm:

  • [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

It did not generate any log by setting the launch options.

Symptoms: A Proton dialog shows up stating:

Unable to initialize SteamAPI.
Please make sure Steam is running and you are logged in to an account entitled to the game.

Reproduction

Just click play on the game in the library.

Workaround

Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play -> Run other titles with == 'Proton 3.7-8'

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-03-11 github

Hello @celebdor, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2123#issuecomment-471519578.

Ccelebdor 2019-03-12 github

Thanks @kisak-valve !

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