Steam sometimes doesn't launch | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

languid oracle May 22, 2024, 3:41 PM

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Steam for some reason sometimes (more like quite often) doesn't want to launch however after exiting it from system monitor and restarting it launches (sometimes i have to restart steam multiple times for it to work). is there any fix?

7900 GRE
7800X3D
6.9.1-2-cachyos-eevdf kernel on Arch Linux
KDE Plasma 6

toxic herald May 22, 2024, 5:14 PM

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@languid oracle are you on arch?

languid oracle May 22, 2024, 6:04 PM

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yes

toxic herald May 22, 2024, 6:08 PM

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@languid oracle remove the other distro as you are on arch

languid oracle May 22, 2024, 6:08 PM

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welp i made a post yesterday and someone told me that since im on cachyos kernel i shouldnt have arch tag..

toxic herald May 22, 2024, 6:11 PM

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@languid oracle try the zen kernel instead

languid oracle May 22, 2024, 6:11 PM

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i had the same issue on zen before

toxic herald May 22, 2024, 6:12 PM

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and stock arch kernel?

languid oracle May 22, 2024, 6:12 PM

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yup

toxic herald May 22, 2024, 6:13 PM

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prop or opensource drivers?

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wayland or x11?

languid oracle May 22, 2024, 6:13 PM

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wayland and i got the amd opensource drivers

toxic herald May 22, 2024, 6:13 PM

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remove that

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and use amdvlk

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