Steam crashing after "Verifying installation..."

I just installed Bazzite on my desktop (nvidia 4080 gpu) and am trying to launch Steam for the first time. Using the Steam icon the little GUI bar opens saying "Verifying installation" and then immediately closes. How can I get Steam to launch?

In the terminal I ran bazzite-steam and these are the logs seem fine until it crashes:
[2025-02-23 12:57:44] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1738026274, installed version 1738026274, existing pending version 0
[2025-02-23 12:57:44] Nothing to do
[2025-02-23 12:57:44] Verifying installation...
[2025-02-23 12:57:44] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2025-02-23 12:57:45] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /var/home/baz/.local/share/Steam/logs

crash_20250223125745_5.dmp[40826]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20250223125745_5.dmp
/var/home/baz/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 949: 40810 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

I ran updated and restarted my computer, ran
ujust fix-reset-steam
twice, with the same crash.

baz@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
Digest: sha256:2b4ed5a996290b66056801cf79113dc391ee2a6c808f47aa3ecd49741beaf19b
Version: 41.20250216.1 (2025-02-17T16:39:32Z)
LayeredPackages: coolercontrol lact liquidctl openrazer-daemon

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
Digest: sha256:2b4ed5a996290b66056801cf79113dc391ee2a6c808f47aa3ecd49741beaf19b
Version: 41.20250216.1 (2025-02-17T16:39:32Z)
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