Magic: The Gathering Arena won't start

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Hi there! I recently changed my pc, and reinstalled Ubuntu, Lutris, etc. Now I’m trying to get MTG: Arena to work, but it won’t start. This are the logs I’m getting:

Running gamemoderun /home/fede/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-6.0-x86_64/bin/wine /home/nvme/Lutris/magic-the-gathering-arena/drive_c/Program Files/Wizards of the Coast/MTGA/MTGALauncher/MTGALauncher.exe
Initial process has started with pid 32785
Start monitoring process.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
esync: up and running.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
wine: configuration in L"/home/nvme/Lutris/magic-the-gathering-arena" has been updated.
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 13568)
All monitored processes have exited.
Exit with returncode 13568

I tried googling around, and even built gamemode again from the Feral git (some things pointed to that fixing it), but have had no luck so far.

Any ideas?

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it seems you are using the runner “lutris-6.0” - there is a dedicated runner for mtga: “lutris-mtga-5.0-x86_64”, maybe try using this?

according to the install script, dxvk (of course) and esync both should be true. (though esync probably just effects performance)

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I had actually been trying our different runners, and neither worked. The log for the dedicated runner is pretty much the same:

Running gamemoderun /home/fede/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-mtga-5.0-x86_64/bin/wine /home/nvme/Lutris/magic-the-gathering-arena/drive_c/Program Files/Wizards of the Coast/MTGA/MTGALauncher/MTGALauncher.exe
Initial process has started with pid 6850
Start monitoring process.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
esync: up and running.
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 13568)
All monitored processes have exited.
Exit with returncode 13568

What little I gathered from googling around, I’m missing the 32-bit gamemode? But I just couldn’t manage for the life of me to install it.

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what about starting without gamemode? afaik gamemode is just for performance and shouldn’t affect whether a game runs or not.