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PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 110

Steam has to unpack runtime everytime it starts

Every time Steam starts up after a reboot or being manually closed, it pops up a dialogue saying "Unpacking Steam runtime". After that, it takes about a minute to boot up. Nothing else seems to be wrong with it, so I'm not really sure what this is about.

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Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: Steam has to unpack runtime everytime it starts

How are you starting steam? (STEAM_RUNTIME=1?)
Also when you open steam on the top left corner menu you can check for updates, make sure there are no pending updates to install

PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 110

Re: Steam has to unpack runtime everytime it starts

How are you starting steam? (STEAM_RUNTIME=1?)

I'm just running

steam

in

/usr/bin

I'm not sure how I would set STEAM_RUNTIME.

Also, Steam has no pending updates.

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Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: Steam has to unpack runtime everytime it starts

You can use

  /usr/bin/steam-native 

or

 env STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam 

This can cause issues with some games though, read Steam_runtime

PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 110

Re: Steam has to unpack runtime everytime it starts

You can use

  /usr/bin/steam-native 

or

 env STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam 

This can cause issues with some games though, read Steam_runtime

I don't think I want to disable the runtime though. I just don't want it to have to unpack every time it starts.

Last edited by PopeRigby (2019-11-03 20:08:27)

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