[SOLVED] Steam games don't play

[JarzaClay]

Steam games, even native linux games, will not start on my Wayland/Hyprland gentoo box. The games install just fine, but steam will not show them, or run them. When starting the games with Lutris, I get this message:

[Naib]

sort of... I migrated to flatpak for STEAM... the multilib and mesa stuff from the gentoo side (being a rolling release) was causing major issues with games, which update slower.

Life has been soo much easier and more consistent with STEAM since I commited to flatpak
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[JarzaClay]

If I switch to flatpak, other than the drawbacks of performance, will games run under the flatpak or natively, under the original system. Are there any other drawbacks to using the flatpak?

[Naib]

they will run natively.
There is next to no performance hit since flatpak is a sandbox framework and still uses alot of your native system.

Only real drawback I have seen is you need to remember to run flatpak --update periodically to ensure the underlying libraries are up to date.


To put this into perspective... I recently hit a MAJOR performance issue with DOTA2 being hit the hardest... would sit at 60fps then collapse to 10fps after 10min...
I converted back to SYSTEM from FLATPAK (case of moving the key directory so you don't need to re-download) and well all the compatibilities issues I had years ago were even worse... so moved back to FLATPAK ...
the root cause of my issue was actually kernel-6.10.x (with .10 being worse than .3 and 6.10.3 being significantly worse than 6.9.x...) Enabling BAR in my BIOS had my performance retuen with fps being 120 constant across games...
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#define HelloWorld int
#define Int main()
#define Return printf
#define Print return
#include <stdio>
HelloWorld Int {
Return("Hello, world!\n");
Print 0;

[JarzaClay]

So, let me get this straight, it will use the system, not flatpak, to run the games, just the steam runtime? I usually don't use flatpak for things, so this is new for me.

[Ralphred]

[JarzaClay]

It was fixed by using the flatpak. It's most likely because of my messy USE flags.

[Naib]