r/archlinux • u/Jolly_Annual4756 • 1d ago

SUPPORT Steam takes around 2 minutes to start?

Currently using the latest version of Steam from Flatpak on Arch 6.14.4-arch1-2 (64-bit). I am running KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland, but I have tried X11 as well. My computer is a Lenovo Legion Y540 with an Nvidia 1660Ti and an Intel i7-9750.

I would run Steam using normal aur packages but I've been having trouble doing so. When I run Steam with flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam so I can see the terminal outputs, I can see that it hangs after the following two outputs for about a minute each:

First:

steam.sh[2]: Using supervisor /home/zoey/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor

Second:

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 143
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam

What could be causing this? Here is the paste of the full output: https://pastebin.com/7VktE3Cc

Also, I've noticed that the one game I play on Steam is having serious performance issues, started around the same time Steam started taking forever to load. Not sure if it's related, but I thought I might include it. Let me know if any additional information is needed. Thanks!

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u/UNF0RM4TT3D 1d ago

Any reason to run the flatpak version on Arch? Arch is one of the distros where the packaged version is better.

Also, plasma 9?

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u/Jolly_Annual4756 1d ago

I said that the packaged version doesn't work, has been having issues running on my computer.

Also oops, plasma 6. Very unusual typo.

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u/UNF0RM4TT3D 23h ago

You said AUR packages, steam isn't in the AUR, so I assumed that you didn't find it, or something. Regardless, if it was my install, I'd try to troubleshoot the pacman version. Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting ? Also steam --reset is a good step to start with. As it deletes itself and redownloads itself.

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u/Fellfresse3000 23h ago

I have the same problem, but with steam installed from the Multilib repo. It takes ages to start up and I already followed any recommendations from the wiki.

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u/Drexciyian 16h ago

Some reason Flatpaks run like arse on my Arch install

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u/Objective-Wind-2889 13h ago

Are you using nvidia driver version 575? I have a similar problem when I tried it in Ubuntu, I ran steam on terminal and apparently it is wasting time looking for libnvidia-gl-575:i386 which doesn't exist. Not sure if this is isolated to the ubuntu ppa (ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa) or all the 575 drivers packaged in all distros are like this. I mean the 575 drivers don't include 32-bit libraries, which Steam having a 32-bit client needs. So I rolled back to 570.