Most my steam games are opening to a white screen. I can still see my mouse and my mouse will have the appearance of whatever game I’ve opened but the game itself will just be a white screen. I can also still here the audio of the game as well as exit the game just fine. I’m fairly new to Linux I tried to do my research and can’t find the solution to this. I’m using the latest version of Fedora 43 KDE and my Nvidia drivers are up to date. I have my default compatability tool set to proton experimental but I’ve tried to using proton hotfix and proton 10.0-4 with no luck I also tried proton 9.0 but the games wouldn’t even open using that it gave me the error “could not switch to requested monitor resolution, Details: switching to resolution 2560x1440 failed, Screen: DX11 could not switch resolution(2560x1440 fs=1 hz=0)” I’ll include a picture. I tried launching steam through the terminal and that did not fix the issue but I did see some errors pop up there when I tried to open Disco Elysium but I don’t know enough to make any sense of them I’ll provide a picture.
Games that work:
Mega bonk
Stardew valley
Games that don’t work:
Dark souls 2 & 3
Disco Elysium
Peak
Clair obscura expedition 33
Kingdom come deliverance 2 (this is the only one that
opens to a black screen and not a white one idk why)
My system info: Ryzen 9800x3d, Nvidia 5080, Msi mag x870 tomahawk wifi, 32gb ddr5, 2tb nvme pcie 5.0
This is what I got when I used the console to open steam
$ steam
Testing for explicit PulseAudio choice...
...and PulseAudio has been explicitly chosen, so using it.
INFO: filtering /home/Male/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share out of XDG_DATA_DIRS because it is unreachable
INFO: filtering /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share out of XDG_DATA_DIRS because it is unreachable
INFO: filtering /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/xdg out of XDG_CONFIG_DIRS because it is unreachable
steam.sh[5787]: Running Steam on ubuntu-core 24 64-bit
steam.sh[5787]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[5842]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[5787]: Log already open
steam.sh[5787]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Startup - updater built Mar 2 2026 20:16:43
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox'
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Opted in to client beta 'publicbeta' via beta file
You are in the 'publicbeta' client beta.
03/04 17:23:05 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
03/04 17:23:05 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1772502488)/tid(5897)
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Process started with command-line: '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox'
03/04 17:23:05 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Using update UI: console
03/04 17:23:05 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(5899)
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Create window
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Verifying installation...
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Verifying file sizes only
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Set percent complete: 0
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Set percent complete: -1
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Set status message: Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] Destroy window
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/logs
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] ProcessNextMessage: socket disconnected
[2026-03-04 17:23:05] No more messages are expected - exiting
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.UTF-8
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.UTF-8XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6779860
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6777fc0
pci id for fd 25: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 26: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 27: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
03/04 17:23:06 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
03/04 17:23:06 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1772502488)/tid(5936)
Running query: 1 - GpuTopology
Response: gpu_topology {
gpus {
id: 1
name: "AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO)"
vram_size_bytes: 11237068800
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_MesaRadv
driver_version_major: 25
driver_version_minor: 2
driver_version_patch: 2
luid: 0
}
default_gpu_id: 1
}
Exit code: 0
Saving response to: /run/user/1000/snap.steam/steampbjOgD - 70 bytes
pci id for fd 27: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 28: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 29: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
pci id for fd 27: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 28: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 29: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 6055
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
pci id for fd 13: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 14: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 15: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
X Error: GLXBadCurrentWindow
Request Major code 150 (GLX)
Request Minor code 11 ()
Error Serial #213
Current Serial #213
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 2560,1440 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 2560,1440 }
Caching cursor image for , size 24x24, serial 27, cache size = 0
pci id for fd 149: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 150: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 151: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
sh: 1: lsb_release: not found
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
pci id for fd 151: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 152: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
pci id for fd 153: 10de:2c02, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
MESA: error: CreateSwapchainKHR failed with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
sh: 1: lsb_release: not found
reaping pid: 5898 -- sh
This is what I got when I tried to open disco elysium
[2026-03-04 17:25:06] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2026-03-04 17:25:06] Checking for available updates...
[2026-03-04 17:25:06] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12
[2026-03-04 17:25:06] Manifest download: send request
[2026-03-04 17:25:07] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2026-03-04 17:25:07] Manifest download: finished
[2026-03-04 17:25:07] Download skipped: /steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12 version 1772502488, installed version 1772502488, existing pending version 0
[2026-03-04 17:25:07] Nothing to do
chdir "/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Disco Elysium"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/Male/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 632470, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 7110 for gameID 632470
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