Insanely slow Steam startup time

Fincali197 · 2023-06-22 17:21:36

So basically every single time I run steam it starts up in like 3 minutes, has anyone had this issue before?

Also, after a certain moment it just starts outputting

steamwebhelper.sh[239479]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/alexgo/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[239479]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 204 apps

I tried steam-runtime-native, but it resulted in basically the same thing

System info:
Kernel: 6.3.9-zen1-1-zen
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, Driver version: nvidia-dkms 535.54.03-1
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8600 CPU @ 3.10GHz
WM: Hyprland(from AUR, hyrland-nvidia)

Here's what Steam has output to the console: https://pastebin.com/cMirnDyu

Sorry if I forgot to provide any necessary info, this is my first time posting here.

Can anyone help please?

EDIT: This is not a hardware issue, since Steam starts up just fine on another Arch installation I have, just on a secondary drive. Also, I don't have any additional operating systems on my main drive, unlike the secondary one.

Last edited by Fincali197 (2023-06-22 17:35:50)

seth · 2023-06-22 18:41:10

Wild shot at the currently common offender:

pacman -Qs portal

Remmove xdg-portal-desktop-gnome and if that doesn't help all of portal and flatpak.
If that help but you for some weird reason insist on having flatpak around, we'll need to take a closer look for a mitigation.

Edit: otherwise (but that leads to crashes), https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p2106079

Last edited by seth (2023-06-22 18:42:13)

Fincali197 · 2023-06-22 22:02:10

seth wrote:

Wild shot at the currently common offender:
pacman -Qs portal
Remmove xdg-portal-desktop-gnome and if that doesn't help all of portal and flatpak.
If that help but you for some weird reason insist on having flatpak around, we'll need to take a closer look for a mitigation.

~ » pacman -Qs portal
local/libportal 0.6-1
    GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals
local/libportal-gtk4 0.6-1
    GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals - GTK 4 backend
local/xdg-desktop-portal 1.16.0-3
    Desktop integration portals for sandboxed apps
local/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland 0.4.0-1
    xdg-desktop-portal backend for hyprland

I don't think I have any other portals installed, except as a dependency of nautilus(libportal-gtk4 and libportal, but these don't interfere with hyprland's one afaik). Also, I removed flatpak(completely), and I haven't installed any packages with it, so this shouldn't be a problem. But Steam still takes forever to launch.

Just in case if this is needed, this is what running steam outputs in the terminal now: https://pastebin.com/JDnB1SD9

seth · 2023-06-23 05:45:20

remove xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
If that doesn't fix it, try to downgrade the nvidia driver.

If that doesn't fix it, you'll have to strace steam (strace -f -tt -o /tmp/steam.strace steam # that's gonna be a huge file) to hopefully see whether and where is stalls.

Fincali197 · 2023-06-25 11:34:13

Nvm, I am just stupid. This startup time is probably normal for HDD, because the same this works just fine on another installation I have on my SSD.

Also, is there a way to mark the post resolved? If so, how?

Last edited by Fincali197 (2023-06-25 11:34:39)

seth · 2023-06-25 13:08:05

Mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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Insanely slow Steam startup time

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