Hi, I’ve got a weird issue and figured I’d see if anybody knows how to fix it. I’ve noticed that most of my steam games that have linux native support just crash immediately when I try to run them. Running with Proton works just fine, but I was wondering if my system might be missing something obvious I need to run linux native games?
The latest one I was trying to play was Pyre. I tried looking through the logs, but couldn’t find anything obvious to me.
Edit: Whatever it is, it looks like its not something simple, but that is okay because everything seems to work fine with proton anyway. Thanks for the help anyway! :)
Switching to flatpak steam will often fix these weird steam problems.
For actually troubleshooting it, I’m guessing you have an issue with your steam runtime for Linux games. Try running steam with the console command:
STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
and see if your games work. Basically by default Steam bundles it’s own runtime packages to run Linux games with. Setting steam runtime to 0 as part of the launch will disable this functionality, and use your systems packages instead.
Another thing you could try, you can open game properties and go to the compatibility section. There you can check “force compatibility layer” and try different steam Linux runtimes (if you have them installed).
Switching to flatpak steam will often fix these weird steam problems.
For actually troubleshooting it, I’m guessing you have an issue with your steam runtime for Linux games. Try running steam with the console command:
STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steamand see if your games work. Basically by default Steam bundles it’s own runtime packages to run Linux games with. Setting steam runtime to 0 as part of the launch will disable this functionality, and use your systems packages instead.
Another thing you could try, you can open game properties and go to the compatibility section. There you can check “force compatibility layer” and try different steam Linux runtimes (if you have them installed).
Steam wouldn’t start with that, apparently I’m missing some UI & pipewire libraries. Probably safer for me to keep using steams runtimes anyway.