Steam Fnished Update Then Does It Again

Introduction

Brand sure that you have followed Steam#Installation.
If the Steam client / a game is not starting and/or you lot have error message about a library, read #Steam runtime and see #Debugging shared libraries.
If the consequence is related to networking, make sure that you take forwarded the required ports for Steam.
If the issue is nearly a game, consult Steam/Game-specific troubleshooting.

Relevant online resources

Multimedia and Games / Arch Linux Forums
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux – Result tracking for the Steam for Linux client
Steam Customs discussions of the game
Steam Support FAQ

Steam runtime

Steam for Linux ships with its own ready of libraries called the Steam runtime. By default Steam launches all Steam Applications within the runtime surround. The Steam runtime is located at ~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/.

If you lot mix the Steam runtime libraries with system libraries y'all will run into binary incompatibility issues, run into steam-for-linux issue #4768. Binary incompatibility tin can lead to the Steam client and games not starting (manifesting as a crash, equally hanging or silently returning), audio problems and various other issues.

The steam packet offers three ways to launch Steam:

steam-runtime (alias steam), which overrides runtime libraries known to crusade problems via the LD_PRELOAD environment variable (run across ld.so(8)).
steam-native, encounter #Steam native runtime
/usr/lib/steam/steam, the default Steam launch script

As the Steam runtime libraries are older they can lack newer features, e.thousand. the OpenAL version of the Steam runtime lacks HRTF and surround71 support.

Steam native runtime

Warning: Using the Steam native runtime is not recommended equally information technology might intermission some games due to binary incompatibility and information technology might miss some libraries present in the Steam runtime.

The steam-native script launches Steam with the STEAM_RUNTIME=0 environment variable making it ignore its runtime and just apply system libraries.

The steam-native-runtime meta package depends on over 120 packages to pose a native replacement of the Steam runtime, some games may nonetheless even so require additional packages. You can too use the Steam native runtime without steam-native-runtime by manually installing but the packages you lot need. Run into #Finding missing runtime libraries.

Debugging shared libraries

To see the shared libraries required by a programme or a shared library run the ldd command on information technology, come across ldd(1). The LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD environment variables can modify which shared libraries are loaded, come across ld.and then(8). To correctly debug a program or shared library information technology is therefore important that these environment variables in your debug environment match the environs y'all wish to debug.

If you figure out a missing library you lot can apply pacman or pkgfile to search for packages that contain the missing library.

Finding missing game libraries

If a game fails to commencement, a possible reason is that information technology is missing required libraries. You tin can find out what libraries it requests by running ldd game_executable . game_executable is likely located somewhere in ~/.steam/root/steamapps/mutual/. Please annotation that most of these "missing" libraries are really already included with Steam, and do non demand to be installed globally.

Finding missing runtime libraries

If individual games or Steam itself is failing to launch when using steam-native you are probably missing libraries. To observe the required libraries run:

$ cd ~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32 $ file * | grep ELF | cut -d: -f1 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. xargs ldd | grep 'not found' | sort | uniq

Alternatively, run Steam with steam-runtime and apply the following command to see which non-arrangement libraries Steam is using (not all of these are role of the Steam runtime):

$ for i in $(pgrep steam); do sed '/\.local/!d;south/.*  //g' /proc/$i/maps; washed | sort | uniq

Debugging Steam

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Reason: Steam no longer redirects stdout and stderr to /tmp/dumps/USER_stdout.txt by default. Run into: steam-for-linux issue 7114 A similar effect can exist achieved past starting steam with steam two>&one (Discuss in Talk:Steam/Troubleshooting)

The Steam launcher redirects its stdout and stderr to /tmp/dumps/USER_stdout.txt. This means you lot practice not have to run Steam from the command-line to run into that output.

It is possible to debug Steam to gain more information which could be useful to notice out why something does non work.

You lot can ready DEBUGGER environs variable with i of gdb, cgdb, valgrind, callgrind, strace and then beginning steam.

For example with gdb

$ DEBUGGER=gdb steam

gdb will open, and then type run which will start steam and once crash happens you lot tin type backtrace to run across phone call stack.

Runtime bug

Sectionalisation error when disabling runtime

steam-for-linux issue #3863

As per the problems report above, Steam crashes with the following error message when run with STEAM_RUNTIME=0:

/dwelling/USER/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 756: <variable numeric code> Sectionalisation fault (core dumped)

This happens because steamclient.and so is linked to libudev.and then.0 (lib32-libudev0 ^AUR ^{[broken link: package non found]}) which conflicts with libudev.so.1 (lib32-systemd).

A proposed workaround is to re-create Steam'southward packaged 32-scrap versions of libusb and libgudev to /usr/lib32:

# cp ~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgudev* /usr/lib32 # cp ~/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libusb* /usr/lib32

Notice that the workaround is necessary because the problems affects systems with lib32-libgudev and lib32-libusb installed.

Alternatively it has been successful to prioritize the loading of the libudev.so.1 (see comment on the same outcome):

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libudev.and then.one STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

'GLBCXX_3.X.XX' not found when using Bumblebee

This error is likely acquired because Steam packages its ain out of engagement libstdc++.so.6. See #Finding missing runtime libraries well-nigh working effectually the bad library. See as well steam-for-linux issue 3773.

Steam>Warning: failed to init SDL thread priority manager: SDL not found

Solution: install the lib32-sdl2 package.

Game crashes immediately

This is likely due to #Steam runtime issues, run across #Debugging shared libraries.

Disabling the in-game Steam Overlay in the game backdrop might assistance.

And finally, if those do not piece of work, you should check Steam'due south output for any error from the game. You may see the following:

munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
free(): invalid pointer

In these cases, effort replacing the libsteam_api.so file from the problematic game with i of a game that works. This error usually happens for games that were non updated recently when Steam runtime is disabled. This error has been encountered with AYIM, Breastwork and Monaco.

Game and Steam crashes after game start

If the post-obit error is output:

failed to dlopen engine.and so error=/dwelling house/GAMEPATH/bin/libgcc_s.then.i: version `GCC_7.0.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libopenal.so.ane)

moving the incompatible lib can be a workaround.

mv .local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/GAME/bin/libgcc_s.so.i .local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/GAME/bin/libgcc_s.then.1.b

Version `CURL_OPENSSL_3` non found

This is because roll alone is not compatible with previous versions. You demand to install the compatibility libraries:

One of the following messages may prove up:

# Nuclear Throne ./nuclearthrone: /usr/lib32/libcurl.and then.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' non found (required by ./nuclearthrone)  # Devil Daggers ./devildaggers: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' non found (required past ./devildaggers)

You need to install either libcurl-compat or lib32-libcurl-compat and link the compatibility library manually:

# Nuclear Throne $ ln -s /usr/lib32/libcurl-compat.so.4.4.0 "LIBRARY/steamapps/common/Nuclear Throne/lib/libcurl.so.iv"  # Devil Daggers $ ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl-compat.so.iv.iv.0          LIBRARY/steamapps/mutual/devildaggers/lib64/libcurl.then.4

Steam webview/game browser not working in native runtime (Black screen)

Since the new Steam Friends UI update, the client webview is non working correctly with the native-runtime.

./steamwebhelper: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.then.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It tin can be solved preloading glib libraries; Those do not require libpcre and selinux to piece of work.

$ LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgio-two.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libglib-ii.0.so.0" steam-native

Alternatively, you may create a symbolic link to the native Arch libpcre library.

# ln -southward /usr/lib/libpcre.so /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.3

Since update from around 3/three/2022, there are some reports of black screen nonetheless persisting after applying in a higher place workaround.

The workaround for now is to utilise `-no-cef-sandbox` option: `$ steam -no-cef-sandbox` for full command. More information can be found in Github Steam-For-Linux repository Outcome #8451 and #8420.

Steam: An 10 Mistake occurred

When using an NVidia GPU and proprietary drivers, Steam may fail to starting time and (if run from the terminal) produce errors of the course:

Steam: An X Error occurred X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext Major opcode of failed request:  151 Serial number of failed request:  51 xerror_handler: X failed, continuing

Install the parcel lib32-nvidia-utils (or lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils ^AUR if using an onetime GPU).

If lib32-nvidia-utils is installed, ensure that the bundle version matches nvidia with

# pacman -Qs nvidia

You may demand to change which mirrors you are using to install the drivers if they do not lucifer.

If you are using AMD, have enabled x-flake color depth, and are having this problem. You will likely demand to disable x-bit color depth.

Another issue that causes this error message can be solved by removing the config.vdf file:

$ rm ~/.local/share/Steam/config/config.vdf

Steam: Compatibility tool configuration failed

If you lot are trying to run a native game using Proton merely become a Steam compatibility tool error immediately after starting the game, you lot might take to reinstall the runtime.

Navigate to your Steam library.
In the dropdown higher up your game list check the Tools selection to make them visible.
Search for Proton, right click on each installed tool, visit Backdrop and Verify files integrity for each entry.
Search for Steam Linux Runtime and echo the same procedure. If none are available, install the latest Steam Linux Runtime - Soldier.

Sound issues

If the sections below do not address the result, using the #Steam native runtime might assistance.

Configure PulseAudio

Games that explicitly depend on ALSA tin can break PulseAudio. Follow the directions for PulseAudio#ALSA to make these games use PulseAudio instead.

No audio or 756 Segmentation error

Get-go #Configure PulseAudio and come across if that resolves the issue. If you do not accept audio in the videos which play within the Steam client, it is possible that the ALSA libraries packaged with Steam are not working.

Attempting to playback a video within the steam customer results in an error similar to:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open up slave

A workaround is to rename or delete the alsa-lib folder and the libasound.then.* files. They can be found at:

~/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

An culling workaround is to add the libasound.so.* library to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libasound.then.2 '${LD_PRELOAD} steam

If audio even so volition not work, adding the Pulseaudio-libs to the LD_PRELOAD variable may help:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libpulse.so.0 /usr/$LIB/libpulse-unproblematic.so.0 '${LD_PRELOAD}

Exist advised that their names may modify over fourth dimension. If so, it is necessary to accept a look in

~/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

and discover the new libraries and their versions.

Bugs reports take been filed: #3376 and #3504

FMOD sound engine

The factual accuracy of this article or department is disputed.

The FMOD sound middleware package is a bit buggy, and as a issue games using it may take sound issues.

Information technology unremarkably occurs when an unused audio device is used every bit default for ALSA. See Avant-garde Linux Sound Architecture#Set the default sound card.

Afflicted games: Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2, Transistor

PulseAudio & OpenAL: Audio streams cannot be moved between devices

If you use PulseAudio and cannot move an audio stream between sinks, information technology might be because recent OpenAL versions default to disallow audio streams from beingness moved. Endeavour to add the following to your ~/.alsoftrc:

[pulse] allow-moves=true

Steam client issues

Cannot scan filesystem to add a library folder or library binder appears every bit empty

If the file chooser is empty when trying add together a library folder, or if a previously ready up folder at present appears with 0 games installed, this can be the result of an wrong timestamp on the root directory or in the library folder. Timestamps can exist checked with stat:

$ stat          path

If the timestamp is in the future, run

$ bear on          path

to reinitialize it to the electric current appointment, then re-run Steam.

Cannot add together library folder because of missing execute permissions

If you add another Steam library folder on another drive, you might get the mistake message:

New Steam library folder must exist on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions

Brand sure you lot are mounting the filesystem with the right flags in your /etc/fstab, usually by adding exec to the list of mount parameter. The parameter must occur after any user or users parameter since these can imply noexec.

This error might also occur if your library folder does not contain a steamapps directory. Previous versions used SteamApps instead, and so ensure the proper noun is fully lowercase.

This error tin also occur because of Steam runtime issues and may be fixed following the #Finding missing runtime libraries section or due to no space being left on the device. For debugging purposes it might be useful to run Steam from the panel and observe the log.

Unusually tiresome download speed

If your Steam (games, software…) download speed through the client is unusually slow, but browsing the Steam shop and streaming videos is unaffected, installing a DNS cache program, such as dnsmasq can help [1].

Something else that might assist would exist disabling IPv6. Run into [ii] for more information.

"Needs to be online" error

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If the Steam launcher refuses to start and you become an error saying: "Fatal Error: Steam needs to be online to update" while you are online, then at that place might be issues with name resolving.

Endeavor installing lib32-systemd, lib32-libcurl-compat, nss-mdns, lib32-nss, lib32-glu or lib32-dbus.

This may also be as simple as DNS resolution not correctly working and is not always obvious since modern browsers will user their ain DNS servers. Follow Domain name resolution.

Steam may have issues if systemd-resolved is providing DNS resolution. Brand sure lib32-systemd is present to resolve this.

If DNS resolution works but the Steam launcher yet shows the aforementioned error message, enabling DNS caching e.g. via the "Name Service Caching Daemon", nscd.service, has shown to work around this upshot.

It is unclear what exactly running nscd does to make it work once more though. Delight check the talk page for more info.

Steam forgets password

Related: steam-for-linux#5030

Steam for Linux has a problems which causes information technology to forget the countersign of some users.

As a workaround, after logging in to Steam, run

# chattr +i ~/.steam/registry.vdf

This will set the file'south immutable bit so Steam cannot modify, delete, or rename it and thus not log you out.

Preventing crash memory dumps

Every fourth dimension Steam crashes, it writes a memory dump to /tmp/dumps/. If Steam falls into a crash loop, the dump files can become quite large. When /tmp is mounted every bit tmpfs, memory and swap file can be consumed needlessly.

To prevent this, link /tmp/dumps/ to /dev/null:

# ln -s /dev/null /tmp/dumps

Or alternatively, create and alter permissions on /tmp/dumps. So Steam will be unable to write dump files to the directory.

# mkdir /tmp/dumps # chmod 600 /tmp/dumps

This also has the added benefit of Steam not uploading these dumps to Valve's servers.

Steam license problem with playing videos

Steam uses Google's Widevine DRM for some videos. If information technology is not installed y'all will get the post-obit mistake:

This video requires a license to play which cannot exist retrieved. This may be a temporary network condition. Please restart the video to try again.

To solve this issue follow the Streaming Videos on Steam support page.

Since the new Steam Friends UI update, information technology may be the case that in the right-click bill of fare the entries for "Bring together Game", "Invite to Game" and "View Game Info" are missing.

In order to ready this, information technology maybe be necessary to install lsof.

Slow and unresponsive user interface

If you lot experience extremely slow and sluggish performance when using the Steam customer it might help to disable the Enable GPU accelerated rendering in spider web views selection under the Interface tab in the Steam client settings.

The friends list can as well cause this problem. Two workarounds are mentioned in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7245:

Moving the friends list to another monitor [3].
Disabling animated avatars. Open your friends list settings (click the gear in the top-correct of the list). Set FRIENDS List > Enable Animated Avatars & Animated Avatar Frames in your Friends List and Chat > OFF [4].

Steam fails to start correctly

One troubleshooting step is to run

$ steam-runtime --reset

This tin set various bug that come up with a broken install.

If clicking your steam taskbar icon does not give you a menu, information technology may exist necessary to install the libappindicator-gtk2 and lib32-libappindicator-gtk2 packages and restart steam.

"Your browser does non back up the minimum set up of features required to watch this broadcast" fault

Related: steam-for-linux event 6780

If y'all become an error stating "Your browser does not support the minimum set of features required to lookout man this circulate" when attempting to watch a stream/broadcast try the following two troubleshooting steps:

Navigate to Community -> Broadcasts. If the page displays "Updating Steam" wait a few minutes to see if the process completes and cancel it later a while in case information technology does not. At present test if you are able to lookout broadcasts, e.g. past clicking on ane of the ones display under Community -> Broadcasts.
Commencement a broadcast while in Big Flick mode (View -> Big Picture Manner). If a broadcast starts fine while in Big Pic mode check if it still works after switching back to the main interface.

Using system titlebar and frame

Currently steam client tries to manage its windows itself, but information technology does it improperly, run into steam-for-linux#1040. Every bit a workaround you tin can utilize steamwm project. Run steam like this: ./steamwm.cpp steam. Besides the projection provides a skin that removes unnative command buttons and frame, merely leaves default pare decorations.

Steam Remote Play issues

See Steam#Steam Remote Play.

Remote Play does not work from Arch Linux host to Arch Linux guest

Chances are you are missing lib32-libcanberra. Once you install that, it should work as expected.

With that, Steam should no longer crash when trying to launch a game through Remote Play.

Hardware decoding not available

Remote Play hardware decoding uses vaapi, but steam requires libva2_32bit, where as Curvation defaults to 64bit.

Every bit a bones ready, this is libva and lib32-libva. Intel graphics users will also require both libva-intel-driver and lib32-libva-intel-driver.

For more than information nearly vaapi meet hardware video acceleration.

Information technology may too be necessary to remove the steam runtime version of libva, in gild to force information technology to use system libraries. The current library in use can be constitute by using:

pgrep steam | xargs -I {} true cat /proc/{}/maps | grep libva

If this shows locations in ~/.local/Share/steam steam is still using its packaged version of libva. This can be rectified past deleting the libva library files at ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libva*, so that steam falls back to the organisation libraries.

Large Moving picture Mode minimizes itself later losing focus

This tin occur when you lot play a game via Remote Play or if you have a multi-monitor setup and motion the mouse outside of BPM's window. To prevent this, ready the following environment variable and restart Steam

export SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0

Meet also the steam-for-linux issue 4769.

Other problems

Steam Library in NTFS division

If your Steam library resides in NTFS partition it is likely that games residing there could not first.

The trouble is that Wine uses a colon in its $WINE_PREFIX/dosdevices binder, and NTFS seems to take trouble supporting this.

Workaround: move the 'steamapps/common/Proton 3.7' and 'steamapps/compatdata' to a non-NTFS bulldoze, so create symbolic link in their original locations.

$ mv SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton\ 3.7 /home/user/dir/ $ mv SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata /dwelling house/user/dir/ $ ln -s /home/user/dir/Proton\ 3.7/ SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton\ 3.7 $ ln -s /habitation/user/dir/compatdata/ SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata

Wrong ELF class

If you see this message in Steam's console output

Error: ld.so: object '~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (incorrect ELF form: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

yous can safely ignore information technology. It is not actually any fault: Steam includes both 64- and 32-bit versions of some libraries and simply i version will load successfully. This "error" is displayed even when Steam (and the in-game overlay) is working perfectly.

Multiple monitors setup

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Reason: Is this Nvidia-merely? Can this be reproduced past anyone? Is there an upstream report? (Discuss in Talk:Steam/Troubleshooting)

A setup with multiple monitors may prevent games from starting. Effort to disable all additional displays, and then run a game. You can enable them afterwards the game successfully started.

Also you can effort running Steam with this environment variable set up:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/nvidia:/usr/lib/nvidia:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Text is decadent or missing

Earlier reading following, endeavour install lib32-fontconfig, ttf-liberation and wqy-zenhei(for Asian characters), then restart Steam to see whether the problem is solved.

Installing steam-fonts ^AUR may work, just it also may lead to corrupt font rendering in steam, like chopped alphabetic character.

The Steam Support instructions for Windows seem to work on Linux also.

You lot can install them via the steam-fonts ^AUR packet, or manually by downloading and installing SteamFonts.naught.

Note: When steam cannot find the Arial fonts, font-config likes to fall back onto the Helveticia bitmap font. Steam does not render this and possibly other bitmap fonts correctly, so either removing problem fonts or disabling bitmap fonts volition about likely prepare the event without installing the Arial or ArialBold fonts. The font beingness used in identify of Arial tin be found with the command

$ fc-match -5 Arial

SetLocale('en_US.UTF-8') fails at game startup or typing not-ASCII characters does non piece of work in the Steam customer

You need to generate the en_US.UTF-eight UTF-viii locale. Come across Locale#Generating locales.

Missing libc

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: Issue #3730 is airtight. Is $Home ending in a slash still relevant? (Discuss in Talk:Steam/Troubleshooting)

This could be due to a decadent Steam executable. Check the output of:

$ ldd ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam

Should ldd claim that it is non a dynamic executable, and so Steam likely corrupted the binary during an update. The post-obit should prepare the result:

$ cd ~/.local/share/Steam/ $ ./steam.sh --reset

If it does not, try to delete the ~/.local/share/Steam/ directory and launch Steam again, telling it to reinstall itself.

This error message can too occur due to a bug in Steam which occurs when your $HOME directory ends in a slash (Valve GitHub issue 3730). This can be stock-still by editing /etc/passwd and changing /domicile/username/ to /dwelling/username , and so logging out and in again. Later, Steam should repair itself automatically.

Games practise not launch on older Intel hardware

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On older Intel hardware which does not support OpenGL 3, such as Intel GMA chips or Westmere CPUs, games may immediately crash when run. Information technology appears every bit a gameoverlayrenderer.then error in /tmp/dumps/mobile_stdout.txt, merely looking in /tmp/gameoverlayrenderer.log it shows a GLXBadFBConfig error.

This tin can be stock-still, by forcing the game to utilise a after version of OpenGL than it wants. Add MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.1 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=140 to your launch options.

Mesa: Game does not launch, complaining almost OpenGL version supported by the carte du jour

Some games are badly programmed, to use any OpenGL version above iii.0. With Mesa, an application has to request a specific core contour. If information technology does not make such a request, just OpenGL 3.0 and lower are available.

This can be fixed, by forcing the game to use a version of OpenGL it actually needs. Add MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=four.one MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=410 to your launch options.

2K games practice not run on XFS partitions

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If you are running 2K games such as Culture 5 on XFS partitions, then the game may not start or run properly due to how the game loads files as it starts. [6]

Steam controller not beingness detected correctly

Encounter Gamepad#Steam Controller.

Steam controller makes a game crash

See Gamepad#Steam Controller makes a game crash or not recognized.

Steam hangs on "Installing breakpad exception handler..."

BBS#177245

You have an Nvidia GPU and Steam has the post-obit output:

Running Steam on arch rolling 64-scrap STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)

Then goose egg else happens. Ensure you accept the correct drivers installed equally well as their 32-scrap versions (the 64-bit and 32-bit variants have to have the same versions): encounter NVIDIA#Installation.

Killing standalone compositors when launching games

Further to this, utilising the %command% switch, y'all tin impale standalone compositors (such as Xcompmgr or Compton) - which can cause lag and tearing in some games on some systems - and relaunch them after the game ends by calculation the post-obit to your game'due south launch options.

killall compton && %control%; compton -b &

Supersede compton in the above command with whatsoever your compositor is. You lot tin as well add -options to %command% or compton, of class.

Steam will latch on to any processes launched subsequently %command% and your Steam status will show equally in game. And then in this example, we run the compositor through nohup so it is not attached to Steam (it will continue running if you shut Steam) and follow it with an ampersand so that the line of commands ends, clearing your Steam status.

Symbol lookup mistake using DRI3

Steam outputs this error and exits.

symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_request_with_fds

To work around this, run Steam with LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1, disabling DRI3 for Steam.

Launching games on Nvidia optimus laptops

To be able to play games which require using Nvidia GPU (for example, Hitman 2016) on optimus enabled laptop, yous should offset game with primusrun prefix in launch options. Otherwise, game will not piece of work.

Right click the game in your steam library and select Properties > General > LAUNCH OPTIONS. Change options to

primusrun %control%

Running steam with primusrum used to work. While steam has changed some beliefs that now running steam with primusrun would non have effect on launching games. Equally a result, you lot demand to set launch options for each game (and you do Not take to run steam with primusrun).

For primusrun, VSYNC is enabled by default it could result in a mouse input delay lag, slightly decrease performance and in-game FPS might exist locked to a refresh rate of a monitor/display. In order to disable VSYNC for primusrun default value of option vblank_mode needs to exist overridden by environment variable.

vblank_mode=0 primusrun %command%

Same with optirun that uses primus every bit a bridge.

vblank_mode=0 optirun -b primus %command%

If that did non work try:

LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 optirun %command%

For more details encounter Bumblebee#Primusrun mouse delay (disable VSYNC).

HiDPI

HiDPI support should piece of work out of the box, although on some systems it is necessary to forcefulness it setting the GDK_SCALE= surroundings variable to ready the desired calibration factor.

Protocol support under KDE Plasma

If you are getting an fault after running a game through spider web browser (or executing the link through xdg-open)

Error — KIOExec  File not institute: steam://run/440

Go to Organization Settings -> Applications -> File Associations, add together new, select inode group and name information technology vnd.kde.service.steam, so under Application Preference Guild you have to add Steam. Apply changes, It should exist working now.

The game crashes when using Steam Linux Runtime - Soldier

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Since Proton 5.xiii Steam uses the Steam Linux Runtime - Soldier by default. Some games crash when using information technology.

To bypass it, you lot tin:

Manually build a proton without the Steam Runtime
Supervene upon the Soldier entry point script:

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/mutual/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/_v2-entry-point

#!/bin/bash   shift 2 exec "${@}"

Games running with Proton 5.13+ have no Internet connectivity

If you are using systemd-resolved as your DNS resolver, ensure you have created the resolv.conf symlink equally described in systemd-resolved#DNS.

The file should contain something like to:

/etc/resolv.conf

# This is /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf managed by man:systemd-resolved(8). # Do not edit.

"could not determine 32/64 bit of java"

A forgotten install of the aur package linux-steam-integration caused this with at least one game. Early in that location were conflicts between the system and the steam runtime versions of some libraries, and that aur package helped resolve some of them. It is unclear whether it's withal helpful, but uninstalling it resolved the above error message for Project Zomboid. The solution was discovered by noticing that running the "projectzomboid.sh" command from the control line worked, but switching the launch options to "sh -90 'echo %control%; declare -p'" showed Steam was trying to run the exact same control, but in that location were a lot of "lsi-"-prefixed libraries inserted in the preload and path.

Stuttering with Vulkan

If you notice a abiding intense stutter every 1-2 seconds, in that location may be conflicts in your vsync settings. Manually configuring vsync in the parameters will possibly fix it.

Go to the game backdrop and configure it in Launch Options:

DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60 %control%

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Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting