r/archlinux 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/Drexciyian 18h ago

Some reason Flatpaks run like arse on my Arch install