I'm losing my fucking mind. (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by fleebleneeble@reddthat.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have been able to run games whether it was Steam, GOG, or itch and now I can't get shit to run. I don't have the worst rig. I was playing Fo4, and now suddenly I can't. I switched from a shitty Windows to Garuda. That was working wonderful, until I suddenly couldn't get it to work no matter what Proton version. Then I switched to Ubuntu, same issue. Then Cachy, then back to Ubuntu, and now back at it again with Garuda. Still. The. Same. Fucking. Problem. I have scoured the net for answers and fixes to no avail and I feel like driving into traffic. I cannot get any Proton version to run ANY GAME at this point, not just the more intensive ones. What the fuck do I do? Here are some specs:

Processor: 8 x Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40Ghz
Mem: 32 GiB RAM
Graphics Processor: Quadro K620
Dell Optiplex 990 (7010 housing)
245GB SSD, with additional 500GB HDD and 4TB external drive

I have been able to seamlessly play all kinds of games for months, and then it just up and doesn't let me anymore. I haven't done anything to tweak shit out of whack. No matter how many clean installs and following instructions otherwise, this shit feels BROKEN and I'm LOSING IT. Someone help me please.

-Little extra info, I always skip the Vulkan shaders bullshit and it was fine before. Sometimes it'd load with the "Downloading Windows (somethingsomething), but I don't get that anymore, and as soon as I skip the thing crashes before any launchers of sorts can load so I can mess with configuration with the little GUI bullshit before total launch.

UPDATE:

I have switched to Bazzite and have set my external drive to ext4. Shit seems to work seamlessly now. Thank you all very much.

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[-] fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago

NVIDIA-SMI 575.64.05              Driver Version: 575.64.05      CUDA Version: 12.9     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  Quadro K620                    Off |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 34%   43C    P0              2W /   30W |     499MiB /   2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            4160      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                            50MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4774      G   /usr/bin/ksecretd                         0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4992      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                   135MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5095      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                         5MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5144      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                        0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5146      G   /usr/bin/kded6                            0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5160      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell                    193MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5205      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                          0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5207      G   ...it-kde-authentication-agent-1          0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5285      G   /usr/bin/kdeconnectd                      0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5352      G   ...bin/garuda-system-maintenance          0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5363      G   /usr/bin/xwaylandvideobridge              0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5381      G   /usr/lib/DiscoverNotifier                 0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5533      G   /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-kde           0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           92817      G   /usr/bin/kwalletd6                        0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A          301147      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A          302560      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          0MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A          303057      G   ...share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A          303202      G   ./steamwebhelper                         22MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A          303229    C+G   ...am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper          2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A          304501      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          0MiB |

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Are you running the Flatpak version of Steam?

[-] fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago

I'm not at my computer at the moment but it's what comes with the distro. It's not Native though, I know that.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Install Flatseal and give Steam every permission that it gives you the option, then try again.

Would also be good for you to try games from other sources and see if they work.

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