Steam games will not open (at least paradox launcher based games) | secureblue | Page 1

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:03 AM

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📎 message.txt

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:16 AM

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neon prism

run with PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

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and send the logs

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:21 AM

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inner niche run with `PROTON_LOG=1 %command%`

wait what command?

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oh i see

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📎 message.txt

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:24 AM

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no actually

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sorry 😅

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:24 AM

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youre all good

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:25 AM

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set the launch options on the game as PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:25 AM

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im not like advanced at this so

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:25 AM

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then launch the game

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it will create a file at $HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:25 AM

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ohhh... shit uh how do i do this?

serene pilot Feb 6, 2026, 2:26 AM

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Btw, is it all games or just proton games?

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:26 AM

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neon prism ohhh... shit uh how do i do this?

in properties on the game

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:26 AM

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combat mission shockforce 2 is the only non paradox game i got installed rn

it works

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:29 AM

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inner niche in properties on the game

📎 steam-394360.log

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📎 steam-394360.log

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it stops running same stop everytime

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didnt happen on my laptop tho

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:37 AM

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you're on pc?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:37 AM

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yes

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:38 AM

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the game has a native version, any reason to not being using?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:38 AM

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i dont think steam mods will work if i do that?

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:41 AM

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i dont know, i saw that some mods doesnt work

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:43 AM

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ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 529340, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 1006 for gameID 529340
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Adding process 1007 for gameID 529340
Adding process 1008 for gameID 529340
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2603 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2603 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

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this shows when i try to launch victoria 3

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this weasnt a problem until 3 days and its just my desktop?

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:45 AM

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i dont think any of these messages are related to the problem

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:50 AM

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so then where would it be

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:51 AM

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probably after this

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i dont have the games to test and i dont know if it could be specific of running on secureblue or not so im gonna list what you could try:

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:54 AM

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neon prism ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/user/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/sha...

post rpm-ostree kargs please

inner niche Feb 6, 2026, 2:54 AM

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try others versions of proton, maybe proton 9 or protonge
bypass the launcher, idk the launcher but thirdparty launchers can have problems
check protondb and reddit, forums

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:55 AM

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neon prism i dont think steam mods will work if i do that?

so only proton games fail? native games are fine?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:55 AM

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user@secureblue:/var/home/user$ rpm-ostree kargs
ostree=/ostree/boot.0/default/f91977ca93c862330e326ef298adad4e048bdb5d08e70727a174c12f81638fec/0 init_on_alloc=1 init_on_free=1 slab_nomerge page_alloc.shuffle=1 randomize_kstack_offset=on vsyscall=none lockdown=confidentiality random.trust_cpu=off random.trust_bootloader=off iommu=force intel_iommu=on iommu.passthrough=0 iommu.strict=1 pti=on vdso32=0 module.sig_enforce=1 mitigations=auto,nosmt spectre_v2=on spec_store_bypass_disable=on l1d_flush=on l1tf=full,force kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=always kvm.mitigate_smt_rsb=1 ssbd=force-on loglevel=0 rd.shell=0 rd.emergency=halt rd.luks.uuid=luks-67bcc3e1-0a9a-4d70-b6ee-8c43e3b1926e rhgb quiet root=UUID=9e3d4cf4-a0d5-4737-acfb-4a6a2fe31511 vconsole.keymap=us rootflags=subvol=root rw
user@secureblue:/var/home/user$ ^C

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:55 AM

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inner niche - try others versions of proton, maybe proton 9 or protonge - bypass the launche...

paradox games work fine on linux

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:55 AM

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honest ice so only proton games fail? native games are fine?

as in if i launch them striaght from files yes

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:55 AM

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neon prism as in if i launch them striaght from files yes

what about proton games

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:56 AM

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every paradox game ive launched does this and those us proton

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i dont thin kcombat mission 2 uses it

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:57 AM

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im asking whether there is a difference between proton or native games

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when all other variables are identical

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including where you launch it from

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:57 AM

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if you mean is there a difference between when i launch them from steam (whch uses proton i think) and from files then yes

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:57 AM

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neon prism if you mean is there a difference between when i launch them from steam (whch us...

no im asking the opposite

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im asking whether proton and native games are different, if both launched from steam

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and no, not all games launched from steam use proton

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:58 AM

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how do i launc hthe native game

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:58 AM

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neon prism how do i launc hthe native game

its the default if available

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for native games you have to hardcode it to proton in game settings

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to force proton

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:59 AM

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neon prism > user@secureblue:/var/home/user$ rpm-ostree kargs > ostree=/ostree/boot.0/defau...

post a screenshot of flatseal for steam pls

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 2:59 AM

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ok native it wasnt working let me try forcing it to use proton

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 2:59 AM

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also you can get game launch logs

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youll have to google though i dont recall where steam puts them off the top of my head

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:02 AM

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proton doesnt work either

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:12 AM

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neon prism

why is device=dri removed ?

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oh you set all

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why is wayland set?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:13 AM

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thats how it came?

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should it not be?

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:13 AM

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remove wayland and enable dri

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you could also bail on the flatpak and use a distrobox

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:14 AM

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im not seeing dri in flatseal

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and i tried to do the bazzite distrobox install but it doesnt work

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:27 AM

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neon prism im not seeing dri in flatseal

first device

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:27 AM

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neon prism and i tried to do the bazzite distrobox install but it doesnt work

what was the error and did you report it on the bazzite distrobox repo?

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you can just ujust distrobox-assemble arch then install steam and export it

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in fact im inclined to just switch to that in the images tbh

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since the bazzite distrobox is causing issues

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:38 AM

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all does the same

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lemme try weith distro box

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:40 AM

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neon prism lemme try weith distro box

just tried

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seems like the ublue arch distrobox is broken

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I'm gonna fix it

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give me an hour

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

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aight

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what if i just normal flatpak steam

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or rpm ostree it

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

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"normal flatpak steam" what does this mean

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

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neon prism or rpm ostree it

oh, you could layer it yeah

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

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like flatpak insteal steam

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

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you'll have to deal with package drift though

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

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neon prism like flatpak insteal steam

that's literally what our ujust does 😛

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just with extra helpers

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:42 AM

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whats package drift?

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:42 AM

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neon prism whats package drift?

steam from negativo depends on versions of packages that fedora doesn't always keep up to date

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so there will be days where you literally can't update

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because of missing steam deps

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it's annoying asf

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also i found the bug

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so

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might be less than an hour

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checking package integrity...
error: libseccomp: signature from "Levente Polyak (anthraxx) <[email protected]>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libseccomp-2.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: less: signature from "Levente Polyak (anthraxx) <[email protected]>" is unknown trust

:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/less-1:691-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: spirv-tools: signature from "Robin Candau <[email protected]>" is unknown trust

:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/spirv-tools-1:1.4.335.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: tcpdump: signature from "Robin Candau <[email protected]>" is unknown trust

:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/tcpdump-4.99.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: vulkan-icd-loader: signature from "Robin Candau <[email protected]>" is unknown trust

:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/vulkan-icd-loader-1.4.335.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: libdisplay-info: signature from "Robin Candau <[email protected]>" is unknown trust

:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdisplay-info-0.3.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: wget: signature from "Robin Candau <[email protected]>" is unknown trust

:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/wget-1.25.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:42 AM

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ayyyy

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 3:49 AM

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neon prism ayyyy

see #1237926270151688192 message for details

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 3:58 AM

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it says i cant see the tag lol

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What is that linking to

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 4:03 AM

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neon prism What is that linking to

bazzite discord

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https://discord.bazzite.gg/

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https://discord.com/invite/f8MUghG5PB

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 4:38 AM

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ok so this happened even with rpm ostree but again after paradox launcher updated

so maybe paradox launcher is the issue lmao

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 4:40 AM

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neon prism ok so this happened even with rpm ostree but again after paradox launcher update...

why would that mean paradox launcher is the issue if it broke both before and after the update? and didn't you say that any game breaks, not just paradox?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 4:41 AM

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no i said combat mission 2 which is a different game works

paradox launcher worked when i first reinstalled hoi4 and then after relaunching did not upon doing rpmo stree

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 4:42 AM

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neon prism no i said combat mission 2 which is a different game works paradox launcher wor...

i see

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 4:55 AM

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ok still not working

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ugh

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 4:58 AM

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neon prism ok still not working

but other games work? so it might actually be their installer?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 4:58 AM

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yes

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 4:58 AM

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also have you tried after removing all kargs?

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 4:59 AM

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how do i do that/what is that?

honest ice Feb 6, 2026, 4:59 AM

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neon prism how do i do that/what is that?

ujust remove-kargs-hardening

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kernel arguments

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you can add them back after if it doesn't help

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with ujust set-kargs-hardening

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 5:41 PM

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ok same thing is on my laptop let me try this kargs thing

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 5:57 PM

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ok that did not work either

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still launching the executable and then says running but nothing shows up

in processes in system monitor i see launcher tho

neon prism Feb 6, 2026, 6:26 PM

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i do think its a browser thing cuz i can get the launcher to actually load and show up if i delete the old launcher file

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*new

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so i wonder if i delete the old version if the new one will work

neon prism Feb 7, 2026, 1:16 AM

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Any solutions?

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or people with similar problems

honest ice Feb 7, 2026, 1:22 AM

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neon prism or people with similar problems

I'm still unable to reproduce

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I can play paradox games via steam -> launcher -> game

neon prism Feb 7, 2026, 1:32 AM

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honest ice I'm still unable to reproduce

Should i re insrall OS?

honest ice Feb 7, 2026, 1:44 AM

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neon prism Should i re insrall OS?

reinstalling doesn't really do much on atomic

neon prism Feb 7, 2026, 2:06 AM

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honest ice reinstalling doesn't really do much on atomic

So then when why would this be effecring me? Im just xonfused tbh haha

#Steam games will not open (at least paradox launcher based games)