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submitted 13 hours ago by wfh@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I finally took the time to move my gaming rig to Bazzite because I don't boot it that often, and because I don't want to spend half the little time I have for gaming doing updates and maintenance.

Most of my games are on an ext4-formatted secondary drive. Note: They worked perfectly on Manjaro and Nobara, the previous distros I used on this machine.

They are recognized by Steam, I can install and uninstall games just fine, it's just that... they don't launch. At all. Native or Proton. Like if I was on an exFAT partition. The "Launching" button switches back to "Play" almost instantly. If I move a game to my main home partition, it launches fine.

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

Where/how could I get detailed logs to try and pinpoint the issue?

Thanks!

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[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I assume your drive in fstab (or systemd mount, whatever your setup is using) has the 'defaults' permission option? If it doesn't that may be why games aren't launching. Also exFAT doesn't have the proper Unix permissions to launch games iirc.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Another person already linked to how to get proton to spit out logs, but you can also start steam from a terminal, which then lets you see what error messages steam itself might be spitting out when you try to run a game.

Just close steam, open a terminal window, and type in "steam".

[-] mox 3 points 9 hours ago

Last time I checked, Proton logs included things that did not appear in normal terminal output, so you might want to do both. (That was years ago, though; things might have changed since then.)

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

Absolutely, these are two entirely different logs.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Good call. I'm seeing some stuff I don't like, I'll investigate tomorrow.

[-] mox 5 points 12 hours ago
[-] wfh@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

The games crash long before launching proton. I suspect something is fishy in the runtime or even before that.

[-] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 3 points 12 hours ago

Have you changed the steam setting that is should use proton for all games? You can find it under the compatibility in your settings, just choose proton experimental, that should work for most games.

[-] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I’ve seen an unusual number of posts recently from people on Fedora having issues with the rpmfusion version of Steam. Maybe something is broken with it.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

That's weird with a beard. I've run games off a secondary drive in Bazzite with both ext4 and btrfs. Hope you figure it out.

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Worst case scenario, I have to nuke this drive and start over. I'll keep digging tho.

this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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