Let’s just say that, at the moment, I can’t do that.
If the problem persists in these next days, I’ll, but it’s not a priority.
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What if I were to say “yes” to URGENT! An entire drive couldn't be written/modified anymore after a failed Steam's Game update. Is it dieing or is Steam or the game having issues? - #6 by isaac0clarke ?
Sorry, I have to admit I don’t know what that would do - this level of filesystem detail is a bit over my head.
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Understandable.
Then for now I am done.
I won’t select any other comment as “the solution”, but I will select this one because I feel like, if the issue persists or “comes back”, it’d be better to link back here in a new issue.
Also if anyone else gets the same issue, this would be a good place to start.
I had a similar issue a few years ago. It turned out to be malfunctioning physical RAM. The lower addresses, where the operating system and everything ran by default, were fine, and trying to install a large-ish game (DOOM (2016)) was the only thing that I was doing that actually hit the malfunctioning segment. I was able to observe the problem very conveniently, from inside my running OS, using memtester, available for install via the Fedora package repositories using dnf. Your bios options may include a “check memory” utility, and there are also memory checkers that can be burned to a CD-ROM or flashed to a thumb drive and booted into directly. The solution was to replace the physical RAM sticks. I never found out what caused the malfunction.
Sorry to say, but you should bring sources, proof, supporting this claim.
Hold on, I don’t think proof is necessary to give someone another angle to look at when troubleshooting. Especially when it wasn’t a universal claim but a personal experience that was shared.
The source is them (they said I 
)
I’d assume bad RAM and/or settings unless you’ve done enough memtests to confidently prove otherwise (I prefer HCI)
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Sorry, my illness impacts my mind, I got confused.
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What I do not get is everything that you are describing is exactly with what I had issues with Steam when I tried playing A lord of the rings game when I came back to Linux which at the time I was on SuSE Tumbleweed. Get this though years ago back when I had a Linux SuSE 7.3 install I had tried to play some games that many years ago.
Back then steam was very new to the scene so most stuff was still being done in WINE but even with WINE back then I still had allot of disk drive errors myself. Thing I also found was I tested my HDD for errors lots of times thinking there might be a bad sector but those tests back then showed no sectors being bad.
Myself I have always had Loading issues as well as download issues with steam myself I think there still having issues to date with Steam itself. After seeing all these same issues I saw years gone by now I have not touched Steam nor have I tried to play any games on Steam. Just goes to show how bad steam is compared to what we have within the open source community.
I have seen allot of improvements with the open source community but not as much improvement when it comes to 3rd party applications.
On the other hand, I’m using Steam right now, coincidentally with LoTRO, on BTRFS and have no issues at all. Given the number of steam installations, I’m fairly sure that there would be exceptionally loud complaints if anything was regularly causing issues.
YMMV of course, but more often than not, disk errors are actually disk errors.
Sorry about that yeah it wasn’t Lord Of The Rings it was a Game Of Thrones game I was trying out. I had nothing but issues with it disk errors to it completely shutting down on me after it would just load into the game. I know I gave things a good go and I just got frustrated with all of it and stopped trying.
Give it another go. Install steam from the RPM and try it out - it’s working staggeringly well with little to no effort from the end user.
When you have the option of playing games on a PS5 though over Steam gaming I would rather keep my PS5 for gaming and my Studio set up for studio work. The Mini Itx I have I don’t have the add on box and the graphics card in it really is not the best for gaming which I never bought it for gaming I bought it for photo editing and light video editing. It is not really a matter of would it work it is the fact that my studio set up I do not want to game on. As for my laptop it is getting dated and the graphics card in it at best has problems too so I just gave up on playing steam games. A long time ago I us to play Guild Wars 2 on my laptop but that was in a windows environment so who knows with what it would do with steam on linux.
Are your steam games installed on an NTFS (Windows) partition or something with a Linux filesystem? I seem to recall a warning about not using NTFS for steam.
If you try to run Steam games with a NTFS partition the games will just fail to load, period.