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cupricdagger has Steam for Linux

2 Jan, 2024 @ 9:33pm

Unable to open main steam window

Steam is able to open certain windows (friends, settings, and screenshot manager) but does not show the main steam window. (When I use the view all windows hotkey, I can see that the main steam window exists but it completely empty.) Any suggestions?

This is on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS running in a virtualbox on Windows host.

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Originally posted by Marlock:

in steam settings:

enable low performance mode
enable low bandwidth mode
disable steam UI rendering hardware acceleration
disable entering Big Picture Mode at startup

also doublecheck if you set up virtualbox corectly for gpu acceleration

also why do you need to suffer a windows host AND run steam in the guest OS?

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Marlock

3 Jan, 2024 @ 1:29pm

cupricdagger has Steam for Linux

3 Jan, 2024 @ 5:55pm

Thank you Marlock! Disabling hardware acceleration fixed it.

The reason for this setup is that I'm trying to test the linux build of a game I published on Steam.

Marlock

4 Jan, 2024 @ 1:54am

Nice! It's always great news when a game dev takes time to make linux builds and test their game on linux!

IMHO If you have control over your machine (as in not tied by an IT department that forbids it) you should set it up to dualboot linux baremetal instead of running it in a VM

Ensuring GPU acceleration works properly inside the VM is tricky and it adds significant overhead to the system

Linux Mint's Installation Guide is a nice resource for understanding how to do it:
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/

I recommend keeping each OS on separate physical drives so windows doesn't break linux boot partition and whatnot, but it's not strictly necessary.

External USB drives can be used, but the usb data transfer speed may throttle the system IO speed.

Last edited by Marlock; 4 Jan, 2024 @ 1:56am