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Saezher

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Registered: 2026-02-05

Posts: 1

Steam+RDR2 : Stucked on an empty RockStar launcher

Hello there,

Sorry to bother you.
After switching from Fedora (cosmic spin)  to Arch, I get stuck launching Red Dead Redemption2
The Rockstar launcher remains an empty white window, And there is nothing I can do with.

From what I understood, The Rockstar launcher is not compatible with wayland, but I have no special command on steam that force the use of wayland, so (if I understand well) it should use XWayland.
It also worked fine on fedora cosmic, so I guess it is not Cosmic DE's fault.

Any clue ? I do not know what I am missing

Thanks
r/archlinux - the rockstar launcher (right) remains empty ..
the rockstar launcher (right) remains empty ..

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (12) @ 4.65 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 [Discrete]
Linux 6.18.7-arch1-1
COSMIC 1.0.0 (Wayland)

PS :
proton experimental or GE, same result