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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • Sorry! Just in case this came out rude or judgy. It’s just a bit rare that ones’ library is so empty. It was just a thought because mine looks similar when I don’t activate Proton.

    No worries. I feel the same way when I see someone have a huge list of games on Steam. I don’t understand how they have time to learn and play all those games. For me it’s always been that I find one game I like and then only play that for several years.

    Ironically Arma 2 is my first ever game downloaded on Steam as DayZ used to be mod for that one before the standalone version came out and I’m still playing it over 10 years later. Applies to Age of Empires 2 that’s on the list too. I’ve been playing it since 1999 and I still do every now and then. Whose got time for new games when old ones still keeps on giving haha


  • Do you really have this few games in your library?

    Yes. I don’t play anything else except DayZ currently.

    Second, if you are already using Proton and my first guess is wrong, use another Proton version.

    Yeah I had all this enabled. The game worked perfectly before and then just all of a sudden stopped launching. I tired Proton 8 and 7 aswell but no difference.

    What distro are you using?

    Ubuntu

    Did you try using Flatpak instead of the native package?

    I was using the snap version of Steam that I had installed from Ubuntu App Store. I uninstalled it and installed the native version using terminal. Obviously I had to re-download and re-install the game aswell and it started working again after that. I’m not entirely sure what was causing the issue in the first place but I’m suspecting it was an issue in the steam app itself. What is curious though is that the exactly same issue occured to me previously with Windows 7 aswell and judging by the reports online, I’m not the only one.

    The problem is however solved - atleast for now, and that’s the most important thing. Thanks for the help though! The assistance I got from this community is invaluable. I’d be completely stuck with this on my own.




  • Yeah upgrading the motherboard, cpu and ram is ahead at some point. I don’t really game that much so haven’t wanted to invest much into that thing. I almost exlusively play DayZ which it barely runs. With the new GPU and by optimizing the settings I get decent visuals with 35 to 60 fps but there’s a ton of room for improvement. I’ve been upgrading it piece by piece starting with an SSD and the new GPU.

    Game runs now by the way. I’m not exactly sure what finally did it but I’m suspecting the new steam version and reinstalling the game itself. Huge thanks for the help. Without this community I’d be at a complete loss with this stuff.











  • The drivers I had before were proprietary and tested but the ones I updated to now (545) are just proprietary. Earlier I got this message so that’s why I’m trying to install the 32 bit drivers too though it worked just fine before without them.

    Here’s my system info. I’ll try uninstalling steam again now.

    System Details Report


    Report details

    • Date generated: 2024-01-10 18:28:58

    Hardware Information:

    • Hardware Model: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5Q-PRO
    • Memory: 12.0 GiB
    • Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad Q9450 × 4
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    • Disk Capacity: 1.5 TB

    Software Information:

    • Firmware Version: 1613
    • OS Name: Ubuntu 23.10
    • OS Build: (null)
    • OS Type: 64-bit
    • GNOME Version: 45.1
    • Windowing System: X11
    • Kernel Version: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic




  • My GPU is just a few years old GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and I just updated the drivers from 535 to 545 but no difference. However I’ve gotten a prompt saying that Steam needs nvidia-driver-libs:i386 so I’m not sure if I should install that instead or in addition to the ones I already have.

    I still haven’t been able to uninstall steam snap(?) either. I’d like to try the non-snap version using terminal but I don’t know how to proceed. I’m sorry I’m such a novice with Linux. I’m feeling like my replies are really unhelpful.

    EDIT: No luck trying to install the other drivers. All I got is this: