Hello!
Running on an NVidia 4070, AMD Zen 5. I could run games fine on Bazzite 41 KDE version.
I had this working until yesterday when I decided to try the Gnome version of Bazzite. On the Gnome version, I could no longer launch my Steam games on a separate SSD. The SSD was still BTRFS, which I had set up previously when on KDE, following this tutorial:
Anyway, I didn’t get on with Gnome because it kept crashing (it might have been a bad extension, I am not sure).
I reinstalled Bazzite 41 KDE (using the torrent, the one from the version switcher is 42 and currently stays stuck at grey screen when installing).
But to my dismay, my previously working games on that same version are no longer launching. I press play, nothing happens, and after a few seconds the play button becomes available again.
They do launch if I install them on the same SSD as where I installed Bazzite, but I want my Windows to access the games as well, and I don’t want Windows to write to my Bazzite installation drive.
I have gone through the tutorial again, and really there was little for me to do now, because I can write to the SSD I had already formatted as btrfs (I need it to run on Windows). I can choose it as a storage option from Steam.
One thing to note is that with the automounting options now in Bazzite I didn’t really need to do the automounting steps, so at first I skipped all those but the games still won’t launch.
Then I decided to modify the mount just to add this bit of code from here in the mount options (as per the tutorial):
defaults,compress-force=zstd:3,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,space_cache=v2,nofail
That is explained in the YouTube tutorial and it is found here in the knowledgebase:
Still no luck. Steam play is definitely enabled.
I am at my wit’s end here, any help would be appreciated.