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.
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".
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.)
Absolutely, these are two entirely different logs.
Good call. I'm seeing some stuff I don't like, I'll investigate tomorrow.
The games crash long before launching proton. I suspect something is fishy in the runtime or even before that.
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.
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.
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.
Worst case scenario, I have to nuke this drive and start over. I'll keep digging tho.
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