Steam Games Won't Start on Fresh Install

Serum · 2020-12-22 20:02:13

I've installed Steam by un-commenting the multilib for Pacman and installing alongside nvidia-utils. From there, I made sure steam-play was checked in settings, and installed a couple of games (Blood: Fresh Supply and Stardew Valley). Upon attempting to start them using the latest stable Proton, the game shortly displays a "stop" button instead of "play" on Steam (as if I'm in-game), and then promptly switches back to "play" within a few seconds, as if it's no longer open.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way I can get a crash report through the Steam client to post here? Thanks

Last edited by Serum (2020-12-22 20:02:48)

V1del · 2020-12-22 20:16:54

Which games? What's the output from trying to start a game? Did you install the relevant lib32- libs as well? Case in point lib32-nvidia-utils and lib32-vulkan-icd-loader if we just think graphics compar, but really installing steam-native-runtime (... and more importantly it's dependencies) would be a generally good thing to do.

Also there have been some gotchas with proton 5.13 maybe try selecting proton 5.0-9 for the games in question.

Condex · 2020-12-22 22:21:52

Serum wrote:

I've installed Steam by un-commenting the multilib for Pacman and installing alongside nvidia-utils. From there, I made sure steam-play was checked in settings, and installed a couple of games (Blood: Fresh Supply and Stardew Valley). Upon attempting to start them using the latest stable Proton, the game shortly displays a "stop" button instead of "play" on Steam (as if I'm in-game), and then promptly switches back to "play" within a few seconds, as if it's no longer open.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way I can get a crash report through the Steam client to post here? Thanks

In the case of "Blood: Fresh Supply", I don't have the game but, according to Proton DB, it should work. My guess is that depends on the specs of the system.

Now, for "Stardew Valley", it has a native version, but it does not work ([ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Console' threw an exception.). You can always start Steam from a terminal and take a look at the output there when you try to launch the game.

You can force Steam to launch the Windows version of the game if you right click on it in the list, then "Properties" => "Compatibility" => Tick the checkbox and choose a proton version.
And, in my case, the Windows version seems to work with "Proton 5.13-4".

Did you follow the wiki guide to install Steam? It's the one I've used and, so far, I've had no problem.

Condex · 2020-12-23 22:47:58

Quick reply here.

If the native version of "Stardew Valley" crashes with the same error as mine, you can modify the "command launch parameters" and it should work:

TERM=xterm %command%

Arch Linux

#1 2020-12-22 20:02:13

Steam Games Won't Start on Fresh Install

#2 2020-12-22 20:16:54

Re: Steam Games Won't Start on Fresh Install

#3 2020-12-22 22:21:52

Re: Steam Games Won't Start on Fresh Install

#4 2020-12-23 22:47:58

Re: Steam Games Won't Start on Fresh Install

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