Why Aren't My Games Launching on Steam for Fedora?

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Hey everyone! I’m running Fedora with KDE Plasma and I’ve installed Steam via the terminal using ‘sudo dnf install steam’. I’ve been trying to launch Celeste, the native Linux version, directly from my drive, and even though I got it to work in a previous post (thanks, by the way!), it just won’t start up. I’ve made sure that Steam has access to the drive, so it should be able to read and write. I’ve even tried running a game installed on my local drive, but those won’t load either. My GPU supports Vulkan, if that makes a difference. Any help would be appreciated!

Why Arent My Games Launching on Steam for Fedora
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1 Answer

GamerXpert42 -

One thing to check is the format of your drive. Are you using ext4 or btrfs? Those formats usually work best with Linux. If your drive is formatted as exFAT, that might be causing the issue with game launching. I’d recommend trying to reformat it, if possible, to something more compatible like ext4.

NinjaPwn3rZ -

Yeah, it’s exfat. I guess that could be the problem. I’ll look into reformatting!

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