# Bazzite fails to boot into Gaming Mode and logs me out and updates client on each boot **URL:** \ **Category:** Bazzite\ **Created:** [May 3, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240 "2025-05-03T13:54:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![n0noob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/n0noob/32/6301_2.png) [@n0noob](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/n0noob)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240/1 "2025-05-03T13:54:31Z")
Hello, I have recently installed Bazzite on my laptop. Here are my laptop specs: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/4/4baffe1c0e01d7f1c2692e9390e8a378c643341d.png) Here is output of `rpm-ostree status`: ```auto anoop@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status State: idle Deployments: ● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck-nvidia:stable Digest: sha256:ca7404027579f1e2403acc13d3c65b89b2eb2164b00b5f7a000e716846e77669 Version: 42.20250430 (2025-05-01T19:34:58Z) ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck-nvidia:stable Digest: sha256:a62b59bccc33e7c4655788145ca2f9ff98ed76e8f0c71c63b9079da19380b7ec Version: 41.20250409.1 (2025-04-09T19:09:26Z) LayeredPackages: goverlay ``` I am unable to log into Gaming Mode any more. Earlier it used to directly log me into gaming mode which is not happening any more. Even though I try to double click that icon “Return to Gaming Mode” from desktop it shows a black screen and then gets me back into my KDE session. Secondly, steam logs me out on every boot and updates itself repeatedly with each boot. Can someone please help me debug this issue? I am not sure if this is because of a change that I have made in the system or it started happening by itself with any recent update. ---
**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240/2 "2025-05-03T21:22:55Z")
Is this the same issue? Maybe the fix will help. > [@Steam no longer starts](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/steam-no-longer-starts/8238): > > Hello, I recently have started using Bazzite on my main PC and so far I have had a flawless experience. However, recently I’ve had an issue with steam constantly logging me out. I saw somewhere that apparently running ujust fix-reset-steam would help fix this issue, but it somehow ended up breaking my steam client completely. The login GUI doesn’t even appear in any capacity anymore and it seems like the steam process will run for a few seconds before terminating. Just incase these are neede… ---
**Author:** ![n0noob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/n0noob/32/6301_2.png) [@n0noob](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/n0noob)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240/3 "2025-05-04T03:30:21Z")
Tried: > [@Steam no longer starts](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/steam-no-longer-starts/8238/4): > > From someone in the Discord you can try this: Open terminal and run \_\_GL\_CONSTANT\_FRAME\_RATE\_HINT=3 steam -reset Let it reinstall and update Steam, once finished sign in/2FA into Steam. Then exit, launch Steam by clicking the desktop shortcut this time, it’ll ask you to re-log in/2FA. after you’ve logged in a second time, it should work from the shortcut again without asking you to sign in an additional time. This fix did not work for me. Problem stays the same. ---
**Author:** ![PCGR\_X](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/pcgr_x/32/7250_2.png) [@PCGR\_X](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/PCGR_X)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240/4 "2025-07-05T08:19:02Z")
Did you ever get this resolved? I have same issue but I get this issue at fresh install ---
**Author:** ![XeawnCross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c77e96/32.png) [@XeawnCross](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/XeawnCross)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240/5 "2025-07-08T23:23:42Z")
I’m experiencing the same issue on a ROG Ally X. It had happened to me a couple of times before, but it happened three times today. As a workaround I ended up just copying all my games that kept defaulting back to linux versions to a separate location and now I just restart the system instead of using the return to game mode shortcut. I tried cutting down on the process of going through my games and updating the proton compatibility version by using protonplus, but it keeps crashing for me. If anyone finds a solution I’d be eternally grateful, or even a batch command I can keep handy to just run and have it update the proton version of a large volume of games at once. I travel a lot so my ROG Ally is my daily driver, so I keep a large rotation of games installed on it and manually updating each one, opting back into betas, and resetting my custom performance settings each time is driving me a little batty 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kenya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/kenya/32/7248_2.png) [@Kenya](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Kenya)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-fails-to-boot-into-gaming-mode-and-logs-me-out-and-updates-client-on-each-boot/8240/6 "2025-07-09T04:28:53Z")
This is an issue with Bazzite-DX. Maybe the fix can be applied? > > > Like the title says, when you look at the /usr/bin/bazzite-steam, it shows that …steam is being started with the \`-steamdeck\` flag enabled. If you compare this with the regular bazzite versione of bazzite-steam, you can see the flag is dynamically set. > > Described on this older reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1by6y58/steam\_asks\_for\_login\_every\_time/