I'm trying to get PoE2 to run on a non-wayland system.

Initially, the poe2 executable failed to start because the bundled libSDL2-2.0.so would fail to preload. ldd reveals it is linked against two missing wayland libraries.

As I don't plan to use wayland, I replaced the bundled libSDL2-2.0.so with my system's version. It successfully preloads and the poe2 executable runs.

Unfortunately, the game doesn't function. It renders only as a black screen without audio.

There are no errors in the output. There are no errors in the Player.log the executable writes to when run. Viewing the processes filesystem access, it appears to load all the game resources (unity assets, etc), so it is at least starting its loading process. The process sits there at 100% cpu usage with a black screen indefinitely.

Any thoughts? There doesn't appear to be any further debug output upon which to proceed.

export SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/usr/lib64/libSDL2.so

Exporting the above variable fixes the issue. There is a thread on obsidian's forums with more info (I can't post any links for some reason).

this works for me. thx.

Thank you!
This works also on Archlinux. Without the export the game only starts with a black screen.