I’ve had an issue where steam will not open up. I’ve found the issue to be to be with Nvidia-settings. When i open up nvidia-settings there is not much content. To fix the issue i reinstall nvidia-settings and it goes back to normal and steam opens normally. This fix only works until i reboot and I have to reinstall nvidia-settings again for steam to open.
Which driver version do you use?
The latest one that pop installed recently.
Ver 535.86.05
Hmm, that one is working fine for me. Is there any hint in journalctl which could help identifying the cause?
The only thing I can see is this repeated.
Aug 04 16:50:10 pop-os coolercontrold[1282]: GPU Index not found in Nvidia status response Aug 04 16:50:11 pop-os coolercontrold[1282]: Error communicating with nvidia-smi:
I’m assuming it coolercontrol, so i’ve uninstalled that, but nvidia-settings still reverts to this:
it should look like this:
As of the moment, steam is opening and running as per normal, but a reboot still resets Nvidia-settings to the first image, even after reinstalling the latest drivers from popshop.
In the first picture I think you’re using Wayland, while in the second one you’re using X11. I too have this problem with Steam freezing while opening on Wayland, since I updated to Nvidia 535
I can assure you that both pictures are x11. I’ve not had an issue since I moved from GNOME to KDE Plasma.