This may not be a Linux specific problem as I had the exact same issue earlier with Windows 7 and it’s one of the reasons I installed Linux in the first place.

The specific game I’m trying to play is DayZ but it may not be issue specific to this game. It worked flawlessly untill this point. I had made no changes to anything. Basically when I try to launch the game it starts loading up normally and then just apparently quits and the “Play” button goes back green. No error, no black screen, no freezing or anything. It just stops launching the game.

I’ve tried checking the integrity of files, deleting downloads catche, disabling steam cloud, removing launch options… nothing. Almost like it gets blocked by firewall or something. However I feel like it may be an issue with steam itself or then it’s a hardware issue (I’ve got really old PC)

Few things I’ve noticed that may or may not be related:

  • When opening up steam it almost always used to download some updates first and check the integrity of them or something. Now it doesn’t. It just opens up Steam. When I click “check for updates” it says everything is up to date.

  • The firmware updater shows available updates for my SSD and HDD but no option to update. I also tried with sudo fwupdmgr get-devices but it says “UEFI firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:legacy-bios for more information.”

  • In the privacy settings it says “checks failed” and gives me this message:

  • I’ve tried reinstalling Proton BattlEye Runtime but it wont let me uninstall it and says “missing shared content”
  • hollyberries@programming.dev
    8·
    10 months ago

    Oh damn, you’re using the snap version of Steam, this is unfortunately outside of my area of experience :(

    Some key error messages I see are:

    /home/pokko/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper.sh: line 53: /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone: Permission denied
/home/pokko/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper.sh: line 60: /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces: Permission denied

    and

    flock /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf LOCK_SH failed. errno = 13vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices failed, unable to init and enumerate GPUs with Vulkan.
BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan!

    You’ve got permission errors and a GPU driver issue somewhere, likely related to the permission errors. The flock errors stand out to me also, as they are fonts. Maybe required fonts for the game to run?

    • Critical_Insight@feddit.ukOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’ve been using Linux for only a couple of weeks and all this is complete hebrew to me. I have no clue what is snap version of steam.

      • Yuumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I’m not trying to steal hollyberry’s job here but here is my understanding of snaps (and why they aren’t good).

        Snaps were created by Canonical (The company behind Ubuntu) to fix the issue of inconsistent dependencies. The problem with the format is that the market is proprietary and they just aren’t very good. Also they perform somewhat worse than Appimages and Flatpak.

        Personally I reccomend you look into Flatpak, as it’s a better sandboxing format than snap is.

        Also the reason you ended up with the SNAP version of steam is because Ubuntu prioritizes the snap version over the native version when using

        apt install steam
        • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          5·
          10 months ago

          the last part is not true, apt installs things natively. Ubuntu software (the graphical app store) uses snap, however

          I stand corrected. The apt packages on Ubuntu sometimes just install snaps under the hood. really strange move by Canonical

          • Critical_Insight@feddit.ukOP
            3·
            10 months ago

            Yeah I installed Steam using the Ubuntu app store. Now I’m trying to uninstall it but it’s been going on for an hour and doesn’t seem to be progressing anywhere.

            • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              5·
              10 months ago

              I’m sorry you’re having such a bad experience. It should be as simple as uninstalling in the Ubuntu store, and then reinstalling either using apt or flatpak. Is the uninstall not working?

              • Critical_Insight@feddit.ukOP
                3·
                10 months ago

                I need no try again. The uninstall failed the first time. It got stuck at 80% or so. I’ve had so much issues with Linux from the start that I’m getting suspicious about wether it’s a hardware issue.

                • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  The uninstalling issue almost certainly isn’t hardware related, Ubuntu’s app store is just a pile of hot garbage. Stuff like that happens all the time, or at least that was my experience years ago when I used Ubuntu, one of the (many) reasons I no longer recommend Ubuntu to new users.

                  As for the Steam issues, it’s probably a mix of software and hardware issues. It seems there are some permissions issues (likely caused by snap), but it also seems like there are GPU driver issues. What GPU do you have? If you have an Nvidia card, have you installed their drivers? There is also a very real possibility that your card is so old that DayZ is no longer compatible with it (which may be the case given that it wasn’t working in Windows, but to be fair Windows 7 is incredibly out of date and doesn’t receive updates so it could have also been a software/driver issue there).

                  • Critical_Insight@feddit.ukOP
                    2·
                    10 months ago

                    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:

            • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
              2·
              10 months ago

              I think this is completely unacceptable and it’s unfortunate that Canonical decided to make this bullshit the first Linux experience for many users.

              This stuff (basically, Snap or the “Ubuntu Software”) is one of the reasons many Linux enthusiasts are so mad at Canonical for pushing their Snap stuff through everyone’s throat. They invented a new software distribution format with significant limitations that power users can weigh the pros/cons of (and in many cases it’s a fine alternative!) but end users like you end up with scenarios where software simply doesn’t work.

              The kicker? The Steam snap package isn’t actually maintained by Steam! It’s maintained by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. The package appears in the normal software store UI, but their wiki recommends running a bunch of command line tools to make it work correctly.

              And then the worst part: their own wiki says:

              You should consider disabling snapshotting when uninstalling Steam, as snapshots can be incredibly large and take a long time to create since they will contain your Steam library.

              To uninstall, run either

              # Completely removes Steam and its data, without creating a snapshot
snap remove --purge steam

              or

              # Disables snapshots for ALL snaps on your system, and then removes Steam (you can set this back to 744h after)
snap set system snapshots.automatic.retention=no
snap remove steam

              Basically: for easy updates/downgrades, snapshots of applications are created during installs or uninstalls, and when you clicked “uninstall”, Ubuntu decided to make a copy of your entire Steam install before removing it, in case you want it back. That’s probably why your uninstall is taking forever.

              For future reference: Canonical’s Snap packages have a competitor that just about every other Linux distribution uses: Flatpak. Unfortunately, due to decisions by Canonical, to use it on Ubuntu, you will need to install a second software store. Flatpak has advantages and disadvantages, but at least Steam will work when you install it through that.

              In my personal opinion, the best way to use Ubuntu is to remove Snap, avoid Snap packages, and use Flatpaks instead. The rest of Ubuntu is probably one of the best Linux experiences a newcomer can have, but Canonical’s self-sabotaging through issues like this are making it very hard to try Linux for games.

          • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
            1·
            10 months ago

            Unfortunately, Ubuntu has been hijacking some major packages (Firefox, notably), causing apt install firefox to install Firefox as a Snap package. Most packages come from APT repositories, but it’s become impossible to anticipate whether or not a Snap will be installed.

      • hollyberries@programming.dev
        2·
        10 months ago

        Thankfully someone stepped in about snap… I don’t like it and would have gone on a rant without circling back to the issue on hand lmao

        As recommended somewhere up the chain, try a different version of Proton. Support for your hardware may have been deprecated.

        From here, I’m out of my element. Best of luck, sorry I couldn’t have been of more help!