#Steam flatpak not launching

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low sentinel
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try removing hardened_malloc

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hm

kind flame
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you didnt run the permission lockdown ujust right?

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afaia no, could you screenshot your steam permissions?

low sentinel
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wait

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resetting the permissions resets them to the overrides in the file i believe

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you should check the steam permissions against the manifest to double check

kind flame
low sentinel
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after i run the flatpak override ujust, and then i click reset

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it resets it to the state set by the override ujust

kind flame
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do you hit reset in the app or global?

low sentinel
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app

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i thought that was the expected behavior

kind flame
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that is, yeah

low sentinel
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ah nvm

kind flame
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they reset it in both

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this is exactly what I have

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except for the portals

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and it didnt launch without flatpak lockdown?

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didnt you try doing a global app reset?

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odd... the reset through flatseal should work

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weird...

kind flame
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Its probably power managment

signal summit
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These settings are currently working for me:

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These are more restrictive than you might want, but games work. Tested today by successfully launching Dark Souls III under GE-Proton9-27

kind flame
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did you try enabling devel?

signal summit
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That will require devel as well

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Do you know if Helldivers 2 works with this configuration, perchance?

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All good. Just wondered. I refunded the thing right after switching to Linux because anticheat didn't work but I think that was user error because I didn't know how ptrace scope and such worked yet.

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It should be exactly the same as overwatch

kind flame
signal summit
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Some games just are. It really varies. Try GE-Proton if you haven't already.

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Glorious Eggroll. Somebody who improved Valve's Proton a bit for use on systems other than the Steam Deck.

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Hang on...

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Oh good! Looks like there's a new version out. I think Wine 10 fully supports Wayland (although Steam still doesn't. 🫠 )

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I did not.

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I used the normal one, ran the checksum, and stuffed it in the steam folder.

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The flatpak maintainer is an unnecessary trusted party.

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Probably fine, but not what I prefer.

hexed raven
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For anyone who comes across this thread in the future:

  1. My issue was that I had run ujust flatpak-permissions-lockdown before I installed the Steam Flatpak via ujust install-steam. Resetting the permissions through Flatseal didn't work, so I had to use ujust flatpak-reset-global-overrides to get Steam working again.
  2. Once reset, I just noted down the output of flatpak info --show-permissions com.valvesoftware.Steam, then I ran the Flatpak lockdown script again. I then went through adding all of Steam's permissions back, using Flatseal.

For Overwatch specifically:

  1. I had to ujust toggle-anticheat-support to on to get the game to launch.
  2. For stutterring issues, I switched to Proton Experimental and set these launch options: __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1 DXVK_HUD=compiler LD_PRELOAD="" %command%
  3. I disabled shader pre-caching from Steam settings.
  4. I switched to using DirectX 12 through the graphics settings in-game.

End result: Steam works, Overwatch launches, and only minor stutters for the first 10-15 minutes or so, before becoming mostly smooth.

tired brook
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Following along, I tried to set Flatseal as per ValiantMaverick's, but Portals/Background isn't even a thing I can toggle? I assume that is a hint at what's broken. I do wish it would give me meaningful error messages.

signal summit
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Portals is the section at the bottom. Background is the first item in that section.

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Some portals may be greyed out (I think because the flatpak doesn't request them), but Background should not be.

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If your system isn't in English, it may be called something else. 🤷‍♂️

signal summit