Hello, I’ve recently installed bazzite on my desktop pc with an AMD 7900XT. Whenever I try to run RDR2, no matter what proton version, the game boots then gets stuck loading with a little revolver icon and eventually leads to an error code 17 saying it couldn’t connect to social club. Upon looking at the logs, I see that there’s an error initializing the social club UI.
I’ve tried reinstalling the game, deleting and recreating prefixes and changing proton versions and nothing appears to work. The game runs fine in Windows but for some reason just won’t work in bazzite. I can’t really find much info either on the Internet so I’m hoping someone gets might have some ideas.
Just to add, this gives anyone with physical access to your system or ssh access to your system the right to run edit or view any file contained within that folder.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, in addition to doing the same with the game files (just in case). Unfortunately it did not work :(
Here’s the full log from the socialclub.log file
[00000000] Fri Sep 26 17:00:13 2025 [00000000] Rockstar Games Social Club SDK: x64 RELEASE [00000000] [00000000] Settings: [00000000] Offline Only Mode: false [00000000] Launcher Mode: false [00000000] Running title: rdr2 [00000000] Platform: Steam [00000000] Steam user: Anon232 [00000000] Environment: prod [00000000] Language: English [00000000] [00000000] Network initialized [00000000] Presence Supported: 0 [00000000] Friends Supported: 1 [00000000] Connection State Change Supported: 1 [00000000] Achievements Supported: 1 [00000000] Autologin/Transfer Supported: 1 [00000000] [00000000] RAGE initialized [00000000] Social Club Directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\ [00000000] Social Club CEF Directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\ [00000000] Root Data Directory: C:\users\steamuser\Documents\Rockstar Games\ [00000000] Applying discord ID override: 643897785271189524 [00000000] Insufficient title metadata for initializing Discord [00000000] Initialized discord using client ID: 643897785271189524, title ID: rdr2 [00000000] File System Initialized [00000000] [00000000] Command Line Arguments: [00000000] -skipPatcherCheck [00000000] -steamLocation [00000000] Z:\run\media\system\BTRFS_4TB_NVME\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2 [00000000] -enableCrashpad [00000000] -useSteam [00000000] -steamAppId=1174180 [00000000] -scCommerceProvider=4 [00000000] -fromRGL [00000000] -scDiscordClientId=643897785271189524 [00000000] -rglLanguage=en-US [00000000] [00000000] Version Info: 2.4.0.118 [00000000] JSON Interface initialized [00000000] Internet manager initialized [00000000] Social Club Data initialized [00000003] Metadata initialized [00000003] Achievement Manager initialized [00000003] Player Manager initialized [00000003] Gamer Pic Manager initialized [00000018] Profile Manager initialized [00000018] Presence Manager initialized [00000018] Using commerce provider: 4 [00000018] Commerce Manager initialized [00000018] Task Manager initialized [00000018] Telemetry Manager initialized [00000018] Network interface initialized [00000018] Cloud Saves interface initialized [00000019] Multi-Factor Authentication initialized [00000019] Profanity filter initialized [00000019] Game Intent Manager initialized [00000021] Game/Launcher IPC initialized: 0 [00000021] Validating CEF directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\ [00000021] Validating SDK directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\ [00000161] Validating Social Club dependency versions: [00000161] Social Club DLL (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\socialclub.dll) - 2.4.0.118 [00000161] Social Club Helper (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\SocialClubHelper.exe) - 2.4.0.118 [00000161] Chromium Embedded Framework (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\libcef.dll) - 109.1.18.0 [00000161] Vulkan Renderer Layer (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\SocialClubVulkanLayer.dll) - 2.4.0.118 [00000161] D3D12 Renderer DLL (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\SocialClubD3D12Renderer.dll) - 2.4.0.118 [00000161] RGSC-Query Version: 0.0.0-development [00000161] SDK fully initialized [00000161] [00000172] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER' [00001529] UpdateConnectionState :: Connection state changed from offline to online [00001529] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_gameinst_0 (remoteProcessId 388) [00001645] Browser available [00001645] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_IPC' [00001654] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER_WINDOW' [00002240] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'LOADING' [00002240] RgscUi::LoadUrl() called with url 'https://scui.rockstargames.com/desktop' [00002241] CreateIpcChannel returning channel name: rgsc_ipc_760_channel_0 [00002243] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAITING_FOR_PAGE_LOAD' [00002622] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_0 (remoteProcessId 2444) [00002622] OnChannelError() - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_0 [00002622] Connection to UI renderer lost! [00002622] UI renderer disconnected [00002736] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'FAILED' [00002736] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER' [00002801] Browser available [00002801] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_IPC' [00003177] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER_WINDOW' [00003243] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'LOADING' [00003243] RgscUi::LoadUrl() called with url 'https://scui.rockstargames.com/desktop' [00003244] CreateIpcChannel returning channel name: rgsc_ipc_760_channel_1 [00003246] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAITING_FOR_PAGE_LOAD' [00003578] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_1 (remoteProcessId 2544) [00003611] OnChannelError() - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_1 [00003611] Connection to UI renderer lost! [00003611] UI renderer disconnected [00003613] UI renderer terminated [00063299] [WARNING] Timed out loading Social Club UI [00063299] [ERROR] Failed to load social club UI, falling back to offline site [00063299] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'LOADING' [00063299] RgscUi::LoadUrl() called with url 'C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\UI\default.html' [00063299] CreateIpcChannel returning channel name: rgsc_ipc_760_channel_2 [00063302] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAITING_FOR_PAGE_LOAD' [00063600] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_2 (remoteProcessId 2744) [00063667] OnChannelError() - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_2 [00063667] Connection to UI renderer lost! [00063667] UI renderer disconnected [00063669] UI renderer terminated [00123336] [WARNING] Timed out loading Social Club UI [00123336] [ERROR] Failed to load both the online and offline sites. [00123336] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'FAILED' [00254237] Shutting down...