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CriticalCore

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Registered: 2013-12-31

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Launching Steam casues log out.

Launching Steam forces me back into the log in screen. Then when I log back in, I find no programs are running. How do I solve this problem so I can use Steam again?

I installed Steam last night, along with the 331 nVidia drivers for my 670. I read the wiki page for Steam, and used

sudo pacman -Rdds lib32-mesa-libgl && sudo pacman -Syu lib32-nvidia-libgl

becasue I was getting the OpenGL error. Steam launched with success and my games ran faster than on my Windows box.

After playing those games, I shutdown the computer for the night. Logging in this morning and launched Steam, which forced me back into the log in screen. I went around and did

sudo pacman -Rdds lib32-nvidia-libgl

and then

sudo pacman -S lib32-mesa-libgl

Steam ran with no problems, but games play at 1 fps.

Now I've run

sudo pacman -Rdds lib32-mesa-libgl && sudo pacman -Syu lib32-nvidia-libgl

again to obtain the nVidia libs, but launching Steam still sends me back to the log in screen. I need some help finding a solution so I can finally finish my move away from Windows.

So what's the first thing I should find out?

EDITS: Formatting.

Last edited by CriticalCore (2013-12-31 20:27:17)

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CriticalCore

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Registered: 2013-12-31

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Re: Launching Steam casues log out.

I've solved my own problem. Steam launched with success, I then rebooted and Steam launched again perfectly.

I double-checked the Arch Package Database for nvidia and reinstalled the 331.20 drivers. Then I downloaded the nvidia cg toolkit

sudo pacman -S nvidia-cg-toolkit

Also, just to be safe, I got three more packages (because why not?), but you probably don't need these

sudo pacman -S pycuda-headers python2-pycuda python-pycuda

Hope this helps anybody else who may encounter the same scenario. This thread is solved now.

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Registered: 2013-06-28

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Re: Launching Steam casues log out.

Please edit the title of your first post to mark this [SOLVED]

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