Bazzite - Desktop - Nvidia (3080ti)- Gnome not launching games
I appear to not be able to run steam games in Bazzite. I know that this is a "me" issue since on my win4 I can run them perfectly. It's been so good as a gaming OS just working, I decided that I want to try and get my desktop over to Bazzite too.
I've installed the OS, installed steam and I've played a couple of thing fine in Emulation station. My Next Step was to try and get something working under steam, so I've ran "Proton Up" and set Steam to use GE-Proton9-25. I click play in steam and it says that it's launching then nothing... I've enabled the proton logging and get
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Proton: 1739155588 GE-Proton9-25
SteamGameId: 2688950
Command: ['/run/media/ben/Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Planet Coaster 2/PlanetCoaster2.exe']
Options: {'forcelgadd'}
depot: 3.0.20250123.114697
pressure-vessel: 0.20250122.0 scout
scripts: 0.20250122.0
sniper: 3.0.20250123.114697 sniper 3.0.20250123.114697
Kernel: Linux 6.12.12-203.bazzite.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Feb 4 23:54:25 UTC 2025 x86_64
Language: LC_ALL None, LC_MESSAGES None, LC_CTYPE None
Effective WINEDEBUG: +timestamp,+pid,+tid,+seh,+unwind,+threadname,+debugstr,+loaddll,+mscoree
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I am sure that I've just missed a basic step, and I'd so love to be able to drop windows! Please help! ❤️
15 Replies
try installing proton ge 24 instead of 25
could it matter that I am trying to run a game that I downloaded in Windows and I've added that to my steam lib?
that might be the issue yeah
same issue with 9-24
so yeah this being my desktop I've got say
C: blah blah blah
E: Games\SteamApps etc
and that's been fine
I've installed bazzite on what was my D drive. but of course I can still access my E drive
hmmm
gimme a sec
yeah just try installing it on a more linux compatible file system and see if it works
NTFS doesn't always play nicely
how is EXT4 in windows? it'd be nice to have 1 games dir shared
windows hates EXT4
i think brtfs is the closest you get to working
windows is happy with brtfs???
i think so?
there's a driver you can install i think
and I've heard of windows itself being installed on brtfs
I've heard of https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs?tab=readme-ov-file
GitHub
GitHub - maharmstone/btrfs: WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver ...
WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows - maharmstone/btrfs
I assume that's what you're on about
It'll be a bit of a PITA if I have to reformat but it'll be nice if that's just the issue
If that partition you're trying to launch the game from is NTFS that's 100% your issue
well that's a pain in the bottom... seems to run fine in my linux partition... I might try btrfs when I have time to download things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fc-3CCXbA
make sure you configure winbtrfs correctly like in this video
Mike's Tech Tips
YouTube
How to set up a shared btrfs partition for sharing games between Wi...
In this video we'll be looking at how to create a shared btrfs partition for
sharing our Steam game library between Bazzite and Windows.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Creating our shared btrfs partition in GParted
01:40 Installing WinBtrfs
02:32 WinBtrfs Secure Boot work around
03:16 WinBtrfs permission configuration
05:10 Hiding your Baz...