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Looka

Oct 13 @ 4:20am

"Unable to connect to Steam. Please make sure you are signed into the Steam client" ...

Huh ?!? ... but the game is launched while literally being already logged into my Steam account AND the Steam client is NOT IN OFFLINE MODE. So ...

This is absolutely hilarious .. and sad, at the same time.

Last edited by Looka; Oct 15 @ 2:35am

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kab_reg

Oct 13 @ 4:22am

If you are still on Windows 7, update your backport of Steam client. Otherwise, just restart it.

https://w7revived.chefkiss.dev/steam/Beta/

Last edited by kab_reg; Oct 13 @ 4:30am

Looka

Oct 13 @ 4:35am

Originally posted by kab_reg:
If you are still on Windows 7, update your backport of Steam client. Otherwise, just restart it.

a. NOT playing on Windows 7
b. Already cleared the Download cache AND restarted the entire Steam client".

No change.
Meanwhile I have absolutely no problems with other online games from my Steam Library.
Any other suggestions ? :-)

Last edited by Looka; Oct 13 @ 7:18am

kab_reg

Oct 13 @ 5:14am

I had this problem in the past as a random glitch, and could not find any surefire solution for it.

To be safe, make sure that your steam client is properly updated (check, which version you currently have).

juhaszandor has Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

Oct 13 @ 11:54am

Originally posted by kab_reg:
If you are still on Windows 7, update your backport of Steam client. Otherwise, just restart it.

https://w7revived.chefkiss.dev/steam/Beta/

You just made this whole world a better place for all of us

gameguruchris [developer]

Oct 14 @ 7:23am

Update: I hope to get a build out today or early tomorrow that has logging to allow us to trace what is going on.

In the meantime, for players who have been affected by the 'Unable to connect to Steam' error, what platform are you experiencing it on? Windows, MacOS, or Linux?

Looka

Oct 14 @ 10:32am

Originally posted by gameguruchris:
Update: I hope to get a build out today or early tomorrow that has logging to allow us to trace what is going on.

In the meantime, for players who have been affected by the 'Unable to connect to Steam' error, what platform are you experiencing it on? Windows, MacOS, or Linux?

I play on Linux, via Proton, on two different computers, in two different locations, with different internet provides. But I don't use both of them daily.

Anyway ...

The problem occured on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS with Proton 9.0.4. Solved by switching to Proton 10.x (although, surprisingly, it failed with Proton 11.x and Experimental)

The other, running Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS and Proton Experimental, has absolutely no problem with the game.

The Steam client, on both, is the latest (installed using the official .deb provided by Valve and updated regularly).

Obviously, I know I can enable logging (with PROTON_LOG=1) but I don't think you'd like to see the output of such a log :-)

Last edited by Looka; Oct 14 @ 10:38am

gameguruchris [developer]

Oct 14 @ 11:34am

Thanks for this detail!

palbtch

Oct 15 @ 7:34pm

ubuntu with proton.exp:

[2026-10-16 05:31:06] Adding process 9531 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:31:06] Unhandled exception in Xalia:
[2026-10-16 05:31:06] System.ApplicationException: No displays available
[2026-10-16 05:31:06] at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <d0fc37dc9d2d4adaaf429dced8e97b3b>:0
[2026-10-16 05:31:06] at Xalia.MainClass.Main (System.String[] argv) [0x0002b] in <d0fc37dc9d2d4adaaf429dced8e97b3b>:0
[2026-10-16 05:31:06] [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ApplicationException: No displays available
[2026-10-16 05:31:06] at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <d0fc37dc9d2d4adaaf429dced8e97b3b>:0
[2026-10-16 05:31:07] Adding process 9541 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:31:07] Adding process 9544 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:31:10] pid 9379 != 9378, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
[2026-10-16 05:31:10] Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=627690]
[2026-10-16 05:31:10] Removing process 9544 for gameID 627690

palbtch

Oct 15 @ 7:37pm

proton11:

[2026-10-16 05:35:20] Adding process 10017 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] Adding process 10023 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] Unhandled exception in Xalia:
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] System.ApplicationException: No displays available
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] at Xalia.MainClass.Main (System.String[] argv) [0x0002b] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ApplicationException: No displays available
[2026-10-16 05:35:20] at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[2026-10-16 05:35:26] Adding process 10038 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:27] Adding process 10042 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:33] Adding process 10047 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] Adding process 10057 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] Adding process 10059 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] Adding process 10065 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] Unhandled exception in Xalia:
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] System.ApplicationException: No displays available
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] at Xalia.MainClass.Main (System.String[] argv) [0x0002b] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ApplicationException: No displays available
[2026-10-16 05:35:34] at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[2026-10-16 05:35:35] Adding process 10072 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:36] pid 9945 != 9944, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
[2026-10-16 05:35:36] Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=627690]
[2026-10-16 05:35:36] Removing process 10072 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:35:36] Removing process 10065 for gameID 627690

palbtch

Oct 15 @ 7:39pm

APP started good on proton10, and successfully connected. Game work as should but in log :

[2026-10-16 05:37:31] chdir "/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/IdleChampions"
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] Game Recording - would start recording game 627690, but recording for this game is disabled
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] Adding process 10215 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] Adding process 10216 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] Adding process 10217 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:31] Adding process 10218 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:33] pressure-vessel-wrap[10217]: W: "opt/amdgpu/share/libdrm" is unlikely to appear in "/run/host"
[2026-10-16 05:37:33] pressure-vessel-wrap[10217]: W: "opt/amdgpu/share/libdrm" is unlikely to appear in "/run/host"
[2026-10-16 05:37:33] pressure-vessel-wrap[10217]: W: "opt/amdgpu/share/drirc.d" is unlikely to appear in "/run/host"
[2026-10-16 05:37:33] Adding process 10379 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:33] Proton: Upgrading prefix from 11.0-100 to 10.1000-105 (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/627690/)
[2026-10-16 05:37:33] Proton: Removing newer prefix
[2026-10-16 05:37:36] Adding process 10381 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:36] Adding process 10382 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:36] fsync: up and running.
[2026-10-16 05:37:36] Adding process 10383 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:37:36] Adding process 10386 for gameID 627690

Last edited by palbtch; Oct 15 @ 7:44pm

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palbtch

Oct 15 @ 7:43pm

proton9 App start ok but App cannt to connect to steam:

[2026-10-16 05:41:00] chdir "/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/IdleChampions"
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] Game Recording - would start recording game 627690, but recording for this game is disabled
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] Adding process 10829 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] Adding process 10830 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] Adding process 10831 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:00] Adding process 10832 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:03] pressure-vessel-wrap[10831]: W: "opt/amdgpu/share/libdrm" is unlikely to appear in "/run/host"
[2026-10-16 05:41:03] pressure-vessel-wrap[10831]: W: "opt/amdgpu/share/libdrm" is unlikely to appear in "/run/host"
[2026-10-16 05:41:03] pressure-vessel-wrap[10831]: W: "opt/amdgpu/share/drirc.d" is unlikely to appear in "/run/host"
[2026-10-16 05:41:03] Proton: Upgrading prefix from 10.1000-105 to 9.0-203 (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/627690/)
[2026-10-16 05:41:03] Proton: Removing newer prefix
[2026-10-16 05:41:03] Adding process 10992 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:05] Adding process 10994 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 10995 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] fsync: up and running.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 10996 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 10999 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 11001 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 11004 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 11014 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:06] Adding process 11028 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:07] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:07] Adding process 11034 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:07] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:07] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:07] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:07] Adding process 11049 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:08] Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:08] Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561198088160942 [API loaded no]
[2026-10-16 05:41:08] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:08] Adding process 11066 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:08] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
[2026-10-16 05:41:08] Adding process 11069 for gameID 627690
[2026-10-16 05:41:11]
[2026-10-16 05:41:11] (wine:11066): GStreamer-Video-CRITICAL **: 05:41:11.003: gst_video_info_from_caps: assertion 'gst_caps_is_fixed (caps)' failed
[2026-10-16 05:41:16]
[2026-10-16 05:41:16] (wine:11066): GStreamer-Video-CRITICAL **: 05:41:16.767: gst_video_info_from_caps: assertion 'gst_caps_is_fixed (caps)' failed

Last edited by palbtch; Oct 15 @ 7:46pm

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palbtch

Oct 15 @ 7:45pm

so resume
work on proton10 with disabled steam-overlay ( with some memory leak as usual).
on Prt9 cant connect. Prt11/exp dont work at all

Last edited by palbtch; Oct 15 @ 7:50pm

#12

Looka

Oct 16 @ 2:19am

Let me quote myself: [...] Obviously, I know I can enable logging (with PROTON_LOG=1) but I don't think you'd like to see the output of such a log :-) [...]

Well, now they know why I said that :-D

#13

Bouchart

Oct 22 @ 2:26pm

Originally posted by kab_reg:
If you are still on Windows 7, update your backport of Steam client. Otherwise, just restart it.

https://w7revived.chefkiss.dev/steam/Beta/

Thank you so much. I wish I knew about this sooner.

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