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Bazzite•2y ago•
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Steam Proton games wont launch

Hello,
I just recently rebased to Bazzite-gnome from Silverblue-main and discovered that my steam proton games won't launch.
Originally I was running steam flatpak and games were running fine. I tried searching here for a solution but I didn't find one, so I hope this hasn't been already posted.
I have tried the following in no particular order:
-trying different proton versions (experimental, 9, and 8, it having worked on 8 before)
-clearing steam download cache
-deleting compatdata for the game
-deleting proton* and steamlinuxruntime* from 'common' folders
-verify integrity of game files
-restarting and updating the system
-launching in big picture mode
-launching with gamescope, lol
-launching with PROTON_LOG=1, will attach latest log below


I also tried one of my non steam games through lutris and it launches there.
Still somewhat of a Linux novice, any help is appreciated.
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