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Posted: **Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:12 pm**

I have tried the steam version on SteamOS and Ubuntu 16.04. On both steam says that it "preparing to play", the "preparing to play" vanishes and then nothing happens. The game does not launch.

When I try to run the steam binary from the terminal I get this.

pieter@bat:~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin/x64$ ./factorio
0.000 Initializing Steam API.
szCmd: /bin/sh -c '"/home/pieter/.steam/steam.sh" "steam://run/427520"' &
pieter@bat:~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin/x64$ rm: cannot remove '/home/pieter/.steam/steam': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove '/home/pieter/.steam/bin': Is a directory
Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically

I have downloaded the standalone binary and it works fine.

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2017 10:13 pm**

Hi, when you try to execute the game outside of Steam (ie. from terminal) Steam API tries to relaunch the game under itself ... this seems to fail for reason unknown to me.

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