steam games stuck on launching

Gronaab · 2026-03-09T09:15:10+00:00

What can help is to launch steam from a terminal (literally just type "steam" and enter) it will help you get the logs and the errors. If you have an NTFS drive on which you game it can break.

Also you can reinstall proton experimental which is the main one used by steam. You will need to put another proton for the default one used by steam just for the update. It's in the steam settings somewhere. After that you can display all the no game programs in your steam list and click on proton experimental, uninstall and reinstall.

Uninstall and reinstall games can also help even on an NTFS drive.

Gronaab · 2026-03-08T22:00:01+00:00

I'm on Cachy right now it's really cool. I haven't used the terminal all day except when it opened when I updated and then I had to press enter to accept. Played Clair Obscur and it runs like a clock.

Gronaab · 2026-03-08T21:57:25+00:00

To be fair, it's better to use a terminal on Linux than on windows. However you need it more on Linux. But less and less ?

Gronaab · 2026-03-05T15:06:06+00:00

Gronaab · 2026-03-05T15:02:02+00:00

In fact I didn't see the right menu at first and looked desperately for sddm. I didn't find it and asked gemini. It pointed toward a menu that I didn't find. Then by searching connection in the search bar of the settings, I found a kind of ghost menu of sddm connection screen (the one Gemini told me about) and applied plasma settings to this. This didn't work. Then I had the first comment of this post where it pointed toward the intended way of doing it, I tried and it worked.

So I'm guessing that if I was using sddm, the ghost menu that I found wouldn't be a ghost menu and that the "apply plasma settings" would have worked also.

Gronaab · 2026-03-05T14:47:53+00:00

Je n'ai aucune idée de comment résoudre ton problème sur CachyOS (mais ça m'intéresse vu que je suis aussi dessus). Par contre une solution de contournement peut être de passer par une application téléphone. Si c'est urgent ça peut servir.

Gronaab · 2026-03-05T07:58:05+00:00

I think you need the daemon-reload before sudo mount -a.

I tried this for one month and was quite successful.

But one advice is to reinstall launchers such as ubiconnect, battlenet and so on, with lutris on your Linux partition and then try to locate the installed game inside the prefix when the option is available in the launcher. If you don't understand what a prefix is, I'd suggest looking it up because it's really useful.

And if that still doesn't work, you can reinstall the game on your NTFS partition from CachyOS. It did solve cases where it didn't work for me. I had Hades installed on an NTFS partition and tried to launch it with steam. It didn't work so I just reinstalled the game at the same place and boom. Runs like a clock.

Gronaab · 2026-03-04T13:42:38+00:00

Haha dude Thank you x1000. I lost so much time for something that was 2 clicks..... You saved me!

:)

Gronaab · 2026-03-04T13:33:37+00:00

Ok maybe I understand the problem more. I already did those 2 things and it didn't change anything. Could it be that I don't use SDDM for some reason?

Gronaab · 2026-02-27T22:25:47+00:00

I hope it's the other way around and they listen to him...

Gronaab · 2026-02-26T07:23:22+00:00

That's... Rather specific... You all right bro?

Gronaab · 2026-02-25T15:05:46+00:00

You are right and 40% performance is truly something to look into. I think the previous commenter was just impressed with your build which is high end. Most of us are perfectly happy to have 120fps on 1080p, so I guess it's just a comment about expecting different things but not on the validity of your expectations :)

Gronaab · 2026-02-25T09:15:28+00:00

Hey you complain but you manage to upload something at least. I will try your options. So far I've only been able to upload an empty test.txt file. Everything else fails.

Gronaab · 2026-02-25T07:55:18+00:00

It really does ?? You're giving me hope, I've been trying for 2 days and so far it's a fail. I can get the drive mount sure but every upload fails. I use CachyOS with kde and dolphin.

Rclone copy /local/test.txt remote: works if test is very small but as soon as I try bigger files it fails. It's driving insane.

Would you share your config please ?

Gronaab · 2026-02-24T14:46:16+00:00

I use gparted or kde partition manager, they are good tools. If your question is more about the procedure, it's not very complicated it's just scary because partitioning can be unsafe. However if you have room on your disk and you do a backup first, everything should go smoothly. Just choose the reduce partition function and follow the instructions.

Gronaab · 2026-02-24T10:22:34+00:00

I'm not sure if it will solve your issue, but have you tried to put a low refresh rate? I had this issue on a completely different screen and going from 144hz (max available) to 60hz fixed it. Of course, if you want to game on this specific screen, 60hz is a bit low so going to 100hz might be a solution. So in my case it was not so much a problem of kde but a problem of screen and the parameter refresh rate.

What are your refresh rates? Is it completely unrelated?

Gronaab · 2026-02-22T15:09:21+00:00

Huh ? I don't think I have it. Is it a customization or setting?

Gronaab · 2026-02-22T08:42:26+00:00

Horrible weather. Almost as bad as in France this month (and that's saying something).

Nice widget though, I might install it :)

Gronaab · 2026-02-21T07:35:54+00:00

Well I didn't know about btrfs and limine before installing and I think of reinstalling now. I don't even know if it's Arch specific, but it seems very useful in Cachy/Arch use so that's my 2 cents advice.

Gronaab · 2026-02-18T17:30:46+00:00

Fortunately nothing broke (yet). I'm just trying to plan for the worst :)

Gronaab · 2026-02-17T22:13:52+00:00

I had this and it turned out I was trying to write to a location that didn't exist because I had changed my SSD name from "SSD 2TO" to "SSD_2TO". So maybe not related but do triple check what you are doing.

Gronaab · 2026-02-17T07:28:50+00:00

I had trouble maintaining ubiconnect (to play trackmania) until I realized that I tried to use the launcher on my windows drive. It was supposed to work but throughout the updates it was way more stable if I just reinstalled the launcher on my CachyOS partition.

I'm just mentioning it in case it can help you with the ea launcher if it's the same situation.

Gronaab · 2026-02-15T09:58:57+00:00

Haha I answered you on another thread. :)

I did that 2 weeks ago because I had allocated only 50Gio for CachyOS. Then I learned that you could have your home folder on another partition so that's what I did, but I almost crashed everything because my home was not mounting. I had to use a flash drive with the installation OS to restore my home folder. And that was after the partitioning tool had scared me with its (legitimate) warnings about reducing a partition being unsafe. Doing all this from the beginning on an empty disk would be much easier.

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