This may not be a Linux specific problem as I had the exact same issue earlier with Windows 7 and it’s one of the reasons I installed Linux in the first place.

The specific game I’m trying to play is DayZ but it may not be issue specific to this game. It worked flawlessly untill this point. I had made no changes to anything. Basically when I try to launch the game it starts loading up normally and then just apparently quits and the “Play” button goes back green. No error, no black screen, no freezing or anything. It just stops launching the game.

I’ve tried checking the integrity of files, deleting downloads catche, disabling steam cloud, removing launch options… nothing. Almost like it gets blocked by firewall or something. However I feel like it may be an issue with steam itself or then it’s a hardware issue (I’ve got really old PC)

Few things I’ve noticed that may or may not be related:

  • When opening up steam it almost always used to download some updates first and check the integrity of them or something. Now it doesn’t. It just opens up Steam. When I click “check for updates” it says everything is up to date.

  • The firmware updater shows available updates for my SSD and HDD but no option to update. I also tried with sudo fwupdmgr get-devices but it says “UEFI firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:legacy-bios for more information.”

  • In the privacy settings it says “checks failed” and gives me this message:

  • I’ve tried reinstalling Proton BattlEye Runtime but it wont let me uninstall it and says “missing shared content”
  • @Caboose12000
    2•4 months ago

    I had an issue like this once, it turned out something with openGL had gotten messed up in my last system update, so although I thought I hadn’t changed anything, not even Linux native games would launch correctly. the solution that worked for me was just using my distros update tool to make sure everything was up to date, and that found and updated the broken package and since then everything’s worked for me

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•4 months ago

      I’m starting to think it has something to do with my GPU/drivers aswell. Earlier when I ran the software updater it found an update for steam but while installing I got this message and I have no idea what it mean and how to sort it out

          • @[email protected]
            1•4 months ago

            I don’t know what distro you’re using but you should just search the package name plus your distro name on the web to see what’s actually up.

            I know that it’s called nvidia-driver-libs-i386 on Debian.

              • @[email protected]
                1•4 months ago

                That really sucks lol, I was hoping you’d be on Mint or something. Did you install using Ubuntu’s app store thing that uses the awful snaps?

                I’m guessing the normal Steam package installs the drivers for you seeing as I can’t find a guide that shows you how to install them on the same page as installing Steam.

                • @[email protected]OP
                  2•4 months ago

                  Yeah Ubuntu App Center. I managed to uninstall it now and installed one using terminal. I’m re-downloading the game now so we’ll see how it goes…

              • @Caboose12000
                1•4 months ago

                I’m not sure how you can get that package on Ubuntu, but for what it’s worth Ive had a much better time ever since I switched from Ubuntu to Nobara. it really has everything I need for gaming out of the box and everything just works. I’m sure a full reinstall is way more of a hassle than you’d want to deal with rn, but if you get to that point I’d highly suggest nobara

                • @[email protected]OP
                  1•4 months ago

                  I might treat my PC with a new motherboard, CPU and RAM in the near future so switching distros is not totally out of the question. This rig is almost exclusively for playing DayZ tho, so this issue is particularly irritating.