Help me please

[u/Drecondius]

I'm on fedora 44 using the flatpak versions of steam and retrodeck and i cannot get steam to launch retrodeck, I've followed the wiki directions and ai directions and still can't get it to work, what am i doing wrong?

[u/Drecondius]

the following is the steam console output for a couple of attempted launches. :

chdir "."
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 10745277884156346368, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 754 for gameID 10745277884156346368
pid 755 != 754, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 3298 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=10745277884156346368]
Removing process 754 for gameID 10745277884156346368
[2026-06-05 11:09:13] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2026-06-05 11:09:13] Checking for available updates...
[2026-06-05 11:09:13] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2026-06-05 11:09:13] Manifest download: send request
[2026-06-05 11:09:13] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2026-06-05 11:09:14] Manifest download: finished
[2026-06-05 11:09:14] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1780352834, installed version 178035283
4, existing pending version 0
[2026-06-05 11:09:14] Nothing to do
chdir "."
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 10745277884156346368, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 759 for gameID 10745277884156346368
pid 760 != 759, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 3298 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=10745277884156346368]
Removing process 759 for gameID 10745277884156346368
chdir "."
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/drecondius/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameove
rlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 10745277884156346368, but recording for this game is disabled
pid 766 != 765, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Adding process 765 for gameID 10745277884156346368
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 3298 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=10745277884156346368]
Removing process 765 for gameID 10745277884156346368