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Steam not working properly/crashing (piefed.social)
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I have a few issues with steam and steam games.
I'll start with my laptop's specs:
Acer-Aspire-E5-722G

  • Operating system : Kubuntu 26.04
  • Kernel: 7.0.0-29 generic
  • CPU: AMD A8-7410 APU with 4 cores
  • Memory : 6.72GB DDR3 (supposed to be 8)
  • Storage: WD HDD with 931.51GB
  • Graphics device 1 : AMD Radeon(TM) R5 M335
  • Graphics device 2 : AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics (iGPU)

Issue 1: I have installed steam and it ran once but now it crashes if i try to open it (I can share the crash logs) and it works fine if I run it in terminal (I just type steam in Konsole and hit enter).

Issue 2: I installed Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 on my laptop and I ran it once and I had to turn the settings way down for decent frames but I got it playable, when I try to open it it doesn't crash it just take forever (I waited foor 20 minutes and it didn't open). Here is what I have tried:

  • I switched Poton version form experimental to the latest stable version (9.0-4)

  • I added ```-nointro -novid


Here is a picture of where it gets stuck 
![Corj5g4pgE5QpOm.png](https://media.piefed.social/posts/Co/rj/Corj5g4pgE5QpOm.png)  


Issue 3 (I don't know if this one is solvable): I used to have Windows 10 on this laptop and I could play American Truck Simulator on it with low settings, but on Kubuntu it doesn't launch.  

Thanks in advance.  
If you need more information just ask and i'll try to provide it.  

UPDATE: All of the issues have been solved (mostly)  
Issue 1: I disabled "GPU acceleration" and “smooth scrolling in web views” 

Issue 2: I used this fix from ProtonDB: Set launch options to  `PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%`  

Issue 3: I used this fix from ProtonDB: Set launch options to  `PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%` however my laptop doesn't have enough RAM and steam was closed by the kernel
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In the steam.desktop file there is a line Exec= that points to steams executable file. The steam.desktop file likely lives in ~/.local/share/applications.

In my steam.desktop file I have many Exec= for different ways to open steam.

The first one on my machine looks like Exec=steam %U. If yours has a %U you might try removing it or adding it if your exec line is missing it. Before you go messing with anything back up your steam.desktop to something like steam.desktop.bak or something like that so you can easily revert your changes if you need.

I don't use any ubuntu based OS's so I cant look on my machine to make sure what your steam.desktop file will/should look like.

The other user that replied to me, I cant see his name right now as I'm on a mobile client, you might ask them how they edited their steam.desktop file. They might have a better Idea what it should look like.

If all else fails you can remove steam and then remove your steam.desktop file and reinstall steam and It should regenerate the desktop file again. Maybe in a better/newer configuration.

Wish I could be of more help but I glad that your game is at least working!

If you still need help tomorrow I can try to do some research in the morning as it's late here now.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think I solved it with a different solution but thanks for the help

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm glad you solved it! Feels good doesnt it. I remember when I was just starting with linux and everything was new and daunting. Little by little these small victories mount into something useful.

    You should share the fix so others can benefit. I'd update your original post so others don't have to rummage through the comments.

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