Starting up steam will sometimes crash Gnome (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Simplesyrup@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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When starting up stream and along side a game, it will sometimes make every application crash and unresponsive then the OS will lock up, any reason why this happens? Specs OS Ubuntu 23.04 Gnome 44.2 AMD rx6700xt Ryzen 5 5600xt 16GIB Kernal 6.2 Generic Wayland 64-bit ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING II Firmware 5003

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[-] weiln12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve had better luck using the Flatpak version of Steam than either the repo version or downloaded from Steam. On 22.04 I could not get the Gnome launcher to work at all for either and had to use the terminal. No issues using the Flatpak version. It also works with Proton-Up, which is also available as a Flatpak.

As for your issue specifically, you could look at the logs, but the only way I know to do that is via the Terminal, and you mentioned you don’t want to do that.

[-] Simplesyrup@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Idk if it logs it as the system would just hard crash and i had to do a full restart either by pulling the plug out or holding down the button

[-] weiln12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It will most definitely be logged if it’s Gnome crashing. If the entire system is crashing that’s a very different story, and if you’re hard resetting it sounds like a system crash, not Gnome specifically. Depending on how it crashes, there may be logs.

[-] Simplesyrup@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I started it up using terminal with logs, but I'm stuck again :/

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