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handsomegrape 21 hours ago
[Steam API not Initializing with Rimpy and Rimsort]
I am on Ubuntu 24.04. I used to be on Linux Mint, Rimpy worked like a charm on there. However neither Rimpy or Rimsort seems to work with steam when I try running Rimworld from either mod manager on this distro. And Mint doesn't support drivers for my graphics card. In fact I'm not even sure if Ubuntu does, I've had nothing but problems since switching to Linux.

Steam doesn't seem to be running on root, I certainly hope none of the mod managers are either, I've tried restarting both Steam and my computer.
Both applications also fail to auto detect the locations, I've had to enter those manually.

I'd prefer to avoid reinstalling Steam as it was a pain just to get it and the few games I've managed to install so far to work.
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whatamidoing 9 19 hours ago 
Since it's Ubuntu and didn't autodetect the locations, I'm assuming you probably have the flatpak version of Steam installed. I'm not very familiar with flatpaks (I use Arch Linux btw), but I know they're supposed to be more sandboxed, so there could be some weird permissions issues.
What's your graphics card? Unless it's something really old or obscure your distro should have a package for it.
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handsomegrape 18 hours ago 
The graphics card is called ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Steel Legend 16GB OC.

The CPU is called AMD Ryzen 7 9700X.

I have no idea about the flatpak thing, I believe I installed it from the App Center.

I have actually updated to Ubuntu 25.04 in the interrim of writing this post, because apparently the card wasn't supported. I tried running through Rimpy again, and now it crashed the whole desktop. I may need to re-install rimpy and rimsort properly. And I'm currently looking at installing Mesa 25.
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whatamidoing 9 13 hours ago 
I guess Ubuntu uses snaps instead of flatpaks after looking it up, but they both try to do basically the same thing. I don't use them, so I don't know for sure, but I'd guess it'd be the sandboxing messing things up.
Yeah, if you have a very new card, you'll need new drivers. I'm not familiar with how Ubuntu handles it, especially since they largely switched to snaps (I imagine it probably just ships with it?).
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