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Steam not launching games - no idea what to do [Solved] (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This may not be a Linux specific problem as I had the exact same issue earlier with Windows 7 and it's one of the reasons I installed Linux in the first place.

The specific game I'm trying to play is DayZ but it may not be issue specific to this game. It worked flawlessly untill this point. I had made no changes to anything. Basically when I try to launch the game it starts loading up normally and then just apparently quits and the "Play" button goes back green. No error, no black screen, no freezing or anything. It just stops launching the game.

I've tried checking the integrity of files, deleting downloads catche, disabling steam cloud, removing launch options.. nothing. Almost like it gets blocked by firewall or something. However I feel like it may be an issue with steam itself or then it's a hardware issue (I've got really old PC)

Few things I've noticed that may or may not be related:

When opening up steam it almost always used to download some updates first and check the integrity of them or something. Now it doesn't. It just opens up Steam. When I click "check for updates" it says everything is up to date.
The firmware updater shows available updates for my SSD and HDD but no option to update. I also tried with sudo fwupdmgr get-devices but it says "UEFI firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:legacy-bios for more information."

In the privacy settings it says "checks failed" and gives me this message:

I've tried reinstalling Proton BattlEye Runtime but it wont let me uninstall it and says "missing shared content"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t see this mentioned yet in the comments - have you tried going to developer settings and deleting proton files for the game?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you mean. Uninstall them from here?

Also why is there three different Linux Runtimes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

On the dayz game page where you would click play, click the settings cog on the right. Choose developer, then delete proton files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no such option available in the drop down menu or when I open properties

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My bad. I’m on steam deck and have that option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

First - post upvoted because of the detailled report. Helpful. Thanks!

I've had the same problem a longer while ago.

Do you really have this few games in your library? I haven't used the normal Steam mode for a while, but on your game list is a small Penguin. I believe that's due to the filter "show Linux native only".
If you forgot to activate Proton, go into the Steam settings, gameplay and hit the checkbox "Compatibility for other games". Use that all the time, even for Linux native games. They are usually way buggier than the Windows version, and Proton works great today.

Second, if you are already using Proton and my first guess is wrong, use another Proton version. Either the most recent one (proton-experimental), an older one or the "proton-GE" versions.

What distro are you using?

Did you try using Flatpak instead of the native package? Maybe, there's something missing in the native app.

Oh, and I also wouldn't worry much about the firmware errors and such. This panel is very new and some things are basically impossible to archive. But don't trust my statement, maybe I'm wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You press play and it goes off after a while, you have problems with vulkan, you have an old PC.

I had this exact issue before, try tuning an older version of proton, as newer versions require more recent vulkan versions, which your PC most likely doesn't support.

steam auto updates to the latest proton version usually, that's probably why.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a change in thr game patches or steam updates altered Proton behaviour, have you tried a different Proton version?

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