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A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
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Steam & Installed Steam Games Won't Start #1531

Closed evilthreads669966 closed 3 years ago

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release): NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="20.10" ID=pop ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian" PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 20.10" VERSION_ID="20.10" HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com" SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy" VERSION_CODENAME=groovy UBUNTU_CODENAME=groovy LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME):

Issue/Bug Description: The two applications won't launch. I'm trying to download Elder Scrolls Online

Steps to reproduce (if you know): They used to launch.

Expected behavior: Steam should run and obviously counter-strike probably depends on the latter.

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

I re-installed Steam from pop shop and it still won't start. Should I try switching to flatpak instead of .deb file

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

It's actually showing 3 steam processes in system monitor

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

going to end them all and try again

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

all 3 steam processes run when I try to launch steam

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

I installed all the most recent operating system updates earlier. Like 180 of them.

bflanagin commented 3 years ago

@evilthreads669966 as frustrating as this answer is we have no control over steam, its games, or how they interact with your system and github is meant for bugs and software requests that are related to Pop!_OS and other things System76.

BUT as I have had a similar issue in the past you should try re-initializing steam for your user account.

First move the .steam folder to .steam-old in your home directory using the terminal win+T 

mv ~/.steam ~/.steam-old

Then without closing the terminal window run steam through it

steam

This should rebuild the .steam directory and launch steam. You will need to move the folders from .steam-old to the new .steam directory if you want to avoid reinstalling all your games. If you don't mind going through that process you can simply delete .steam-old.

For further more in-depth support go to our reddit page here or join our mattermost server here

You can also try the steam support forums here

Closing Ticket.

evilthreads669966 commented 3 years ago

@bflanagin perfect brother. Thank you. It worked great deleting .steam. I don't know why I didn't try that. I haven't had time to provide more info on the other issues but I will as soon as I can. Busy developing.