inconsistent Steam crash after quitting game
Hi All,
Sorry to resurrect something I thought was solved, but there's definitely something funky going on whenever I play a Steam game for ~20 or more minutes and then quit. Here are my specs:
Hardware Information:
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X × 12
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 6750 XT
Firmware Version: H.C0 (MSI Pro B550M-VC Wifi MB)
OS Name: Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Silverblue)
OS Build: Stable (F41.20250301)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 47
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.13.5-102.bazzite.fc41.x86_64
Whenever I quit a game (Elden Ring, MH Rise most recently), I'm unable to access the Steam store, my library, or any other part of Steam afterward. The Steam icon still appears in my system tray (I'm using GNOME), but the only thing I can do is click on it and select quit, then restart Steam. All of the other options do nothing.
But once I restart, everything works fine until I quit a game again. Managed to get a log from the terminal this time, which I've attached. I'm thinking this is the relevant bit:
Found an Arch-related thread that suggests something is up with xdg-desktop-portal, but I have no idea what to make of it in connection with Bazzite: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286683
Appreciate any help y'all can provide. Thank you!
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Alright, so I experimented a bit more and if I turn Steam's overlay off, I don't have this problem. Or at least I didn't have it yesterday when I tried it on a few different games. Anyone else have problems with the overlay and crashing?
Nope but I would not rule out some games disliking the overlay.
Provide more info other than "different games" 🙂
Oh sorry: Monster Hunter Rise, Elden Ring, Forza Horizon 4, Stellaris, Witcher 3
It seems like the amount of time matters too. If I only play for a few minutes, I don't get a crash most of the time. But 20 minutes or more seems to be a sweet spot.
Sorry to keep bugging you all with this, but I'm genuinely curious. If it's just the games, it looks like I need to get a proton DB account and start reporting some of this stuff! About time. I at least document some of the problems I run into.
(with games, I mean, not Bazzite. This is literally the only Bazzite-relates trouble I have)
I own Witcher 3 so I can try with that although I never had the issue with it during my playthrough many years ago
Any fancy launch options you use?
Nope. I was running mangohud but turned that off for experimenting yesterday
Vanilla install, no mods in each case
Ok I will test then, won't have my mods here anyway so geralt will probably use 20 mins walking to storage 😂
Hahahaha. Poor Geralt needs to sort his basement like I do
This error is Bazzite telling me to to clean out the attic and garage instead of playing games!
Might have lost power while I slept, PC has to do memory training again 😭
Memory training?
Zen 5
Happens on first boot or on hardware change and sometimes on power loss
There it goes
Ah I'm stuck in the Zen 4 past. Will upgrade to an x3d Zen 5 chip one day!
was planning on upgrading from tr 1920x to the 9950x3d but it only had vcache on 1 ccx so it was useless for me so i went with the 9950x
still a good upgrade
That thing must fly. I don't do a ton of professional work on my personal PC, so I went with a last gen build last year when the Black Friday sales were good. Still the fastest, smoothest computer I've ever had. And much cheaper.
ok cant replicate it
no issues here
i run a lot of VMs for testing
very happy with it
Huh! Well thank you very much for trying. I'll drop this and only post about it again if it starts affecting my ability to actually start the games. This is more curiosity than anything.
if you want to rule out steam fumbling over itself you can do
ujust fix-reset-steam it will reinstall steam and try keep as much userdata as possible (games, saves, etc)
it works on a "list of folders to not remove" if you know a file that should be kept that is not in it yet, do tell us
it will sign you out of steamOh cool. I can give that a try later today. All my important Steam files are cloud saves anyway.
It must be some combo of Steam and the games I play, though I wonder about it showing up in Arch too. Such a weird error.
if it also happens in arch i have no idea what causes it
I found a thread that suggested it had something to do with xdg-desktop-portal? No idea if that's even relevant to Bazzite.
every modern linux system uses that
Also some suggestions that flatpak is somehow involved hahaha. Arch is weird though. This is inconsistent and disabling Overlay seems to fix it completely, so it must be Steam's doing somehow
I'm going to sign up for protondb and start trying to keep a list of when I run into this. Might try submitting a ticket to Steam too. Never tried interacting with Valve that way.
valve might say they only support steamos and ubuntu