Hello,
I have installed steam from rpmfusion-nonfree and it does not start anymore. It shows a Segmentation Error in line 906, “$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH” . I have removed my .local/share/Steam. I installed steam from rpmfusion-nonfree.
Greetings
Removing that directory without also removing the steam installation is an issue.
It contains the entire steam software for your user.
Note that f42 is still beta. It seems likely that steam is not yet able to be used on f42 though it works well for me on f41. The steam packages possibly have not yet been adjusted for the f42 changes.
I would suggest that you file a bug with rpmfusion for this error with steam
Are you using the nvidia driver?
Geez… Will there ever be an end to NVIDIA problems on Linux? It was supposed to be getting better but it’s just becoming grotesque at this point. I can’t even get angry, I just laugh. I’d get an AMD GPU but prices are ridiculous right now, especially in Europe. And the latest AMD GPU support apparently needs some polish too, few months, they say.
Oh, wait.. AMD has this problem too, it seems:
I guess, I’ll go back to 41, but 42 is only few weeks away, right?
Steam works ok here on f42 with amdgpu.
Can you do me a big favor and post a couple of screenshots from AMD GPU Control Panel?
Does it it give you full control of the GPU functions?
One of the annoyances is that the NVIDIA Control Panel under Wayland is barebones. It’s basically an info utility. I have no control over GSYNC, can’t set global FPS cap, etc. It’s much better under X11, but I don’t want to bother with X11 if “Wayland is the future”.
I’m curious how it looks like in Fedora.
Thank you!
Thank you very much. This does look a lot better.
I’d like something with performance comparable to my current RTX4080 (the screenshot above is from an older PC I’m using for testing) so I’m looking at the new Radeon 9070 XT but prices are kinda ridiculous right now. Demand is very high as people are buying AMD because of the NVIDIA shenanigans with artificial shortages that led to massive scalping on NVIDIA GPUs. So, it’s really a bad time to get a new GPU 
That’s on Valve for having Steam be 32-bit or whatever.
Dota 2’s my go-to, and it worked on F42 beta seemingly all 64-bit, except for SteamCMD. With SteamCMD being all CLI, there’s no GPU rendering and no 32-bit library potential issues 
If Steam really is the issue, I’m pretty confident you can do everything the GUI client does through SteamCMD.
Steam CMD is PITA exactly because it’s CLI and updating is unreliable, I want a GUI. Why is running 32 bit apps suddenly a problem in 42? Steam on Windows is 32 bit too and runs without hiccups.
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That reminds me, I never got Wine apps working on F42 beta and now I’m thinking this is related! With that winetricks command I ran it through a 32-bit prefix.
Yeah, from a short googling I gathered there are other 32 bit apps that may be affected. So it’s not really a “Steam issue” nor “NVIDIA issue” but something was changed under the hood in 42 and I hope it’s just a bug because killing 32 bit backwards compatibility on purpose would be very um… unreasonable.
Try this workaround
Thanks! Yeah, I saw that but I went back to 41 for now and I’m going to wait for the final 42 and even then give it a few weeks and watch these forums for any issues.
Steam might still be an issue F42 release: Fedora 42 RC Steam Nvidia not launching : Fedora
This suggestion works around the issue so it’s possible to run the steam installer
__GL_CONSTANT_FRAME_RATE_HINT=3 steam
After steam is installed the fix isn’t needed
42 is an open release now, yet ran into this issue immediately after upgrading to 42.
I don’t understand the fix. What file do I need to edit? Where do I copy and paste this code in?
I ran all updates. Do I uninstall Steam and reinstall?
Please type the fix in english.
Thanks
Uninstalled Steam in Software, and reinstalled Steam.. Nonfree RPM version.
It launched fine after that.
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On my end, using Fedora 42 (Gnome) with [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7800 XT], and installing Steam from the Software app by selecting rpmfusion Nonfree, Steam installs and launches properly, but it no longer launches after a system reboot. Uninstalling and reinstalling works, but again, after the next reboot, Steam won’t launch anymore.
I have run into a similar issue. I have an AMD GPU and CPU and a new Fedora 42 install. I installed Steam from the nonfree fusion RPM repo. Installing and uninstalling works properly, and I am able to launch after the initial install, but then Steam will not launch again after closing Steam or a reboot.