Stuck on splash screen (linux, steam)

I’m running the game through steam(native) on a Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS system with a NVidea 3060ti using the proprietary Cuda drivers.

I was perfectly able to play the game for the last couple of days, today (26th of Feb 2024) the game doesn’t get past the splash screen. Upon startup a black window appears, after a couple seconds it displays the splash screen, then after a minute or two the game/window just closes.

What I’ve tried so far:

  • validating file integrity through steam
  • removing the steamapps/shadercache directory (effectively clearing the shadercache)
  • using the --force-vulkan launch parameter
  • removing all additional launch parameters (including --force-vulkan)
  • restarting my system
  • removing the ~/.config/unity3d/Eleventh Hour Games/Last Epoch directory (effectively resetting my configs to defaults)

It’s probably also worth mentioning that by forcefully closing the game while in the stuck state, the last line in the player.log reads
[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Loaded '/home/marcel/.steam/debian-installation/linux64/steamclient.so' OK.
The lines that normally follow directly after this one, if one is patient enough for the game to eventually close by itself, suggest that the game runs into some sort of stall or infinite loop:

src/common/pipes.cpp (883) : fatal stalled cross-thread pipe.
src/common/pipes.cpp (883) : fatal stalled cross-thread pipe.
src/common/pipes.cpp (883) : Fatal assert; application exiting

More useful error messages in the log files would be greatly appreciated.

le_graphicsmanager.ini (502 Bytes)
Player.log (46.1 KB)

Did you resolve this issue. It’s just started happening to me today. I’ve been playing full offline, which I prefer, but I wanted to check something online today and this happened. Full offline works.

I posted here

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