Crash while downloading games

My bazzite desktop and gamemode is now crashing when starting a new Steam game install. No idea why but it just started happening today. Currently have over 40 games installed and I just bought the Last of Us part II and it threw a black screen as soon as it started downloading. And it reboots my entire PC back into game mode and if I don't rush to stop the download the gamemode then crashes and reboots my PC. I ended up canceling and retrying with the same result. I then tried a different game Lords of the Fallen and same result. It just randomly started happening and I really haven't changed anything since my last game install besides adding Cooler control and Razer genie to my computer. I've played all my games all day no issue and this strangely just started happening. I've tried running system update as well. I've also checked my Storage thermals and those never go above 45c so it isn't overheating due to usage.

Specs
RTX 4070 TI SUPER
Ryzen 9 7950x3d
4tb Gen 5 crucial nvme
2tb gen 4 nvme
64gb ddr5 ram
Os: Bazzite-nvidia-stable (gamemode)

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:14 AM

It seems to be doing this during the Shader-precache install

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:14 AM

The first part of the download

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:19 AM

Just disabled allow steam pre-cache and restarted the download. No avail

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:29 AM

just ran ujust fix-reset-steam

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:30 AM

now steam wont open

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:30 AM

here is the first log

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:30 AM

steamerror.txt661.11KB

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:30 AM

and then after trying to open steam and failing

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:30 AM

I ran it again

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:30 AM

steamerror2.txt38.73KB

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:43 AM

crash_20250424004224_2.dmp109.29KB

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 4:55 AM

If there seems to be no fix for this would I be able to remove steam entirely and just install it from the discovery store?

OOykotGaming If there seems to be no fix for this would I be able to remove steam entirely an...

Kyle Gospo•4/24/25, 5:17 AM

KKyle Gospo No

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 6:07 AM

Alright I'm just doing a clean wipe and going without gamemode.

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 6:08 AM

I honestly have no clue as to why my machine would just crash when downloading a game. It's strange

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:41 AM

This might be an ssd issue. I've never had a ssd fail but it's everything I go to install a new game the PC hard crashes because it's my boot drive..

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:42 AM

I then went to do a full reinstall of bazzite after clearing the drive and during the install process the PC shuts down.

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:42 AM

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:42 AM

@OykotGaming type smartctlsmartctl in terminal and press enter

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:42 AM

Tried to install it onto my 2nd drive my 2tb drive and it worked

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:42 AM

if it says "PASSED" it shouldn't be a problem

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:42 AM

you'd also get filesystem errors

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:44 AM

there's another user with the same issue of steam crashing on bazzite-deck-nvidia

CCheckYourFax if it says "PASSED" it shouldn't be a problem

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:44 AM

Well would this affect a affect a complete reinstall onto the affected drive?

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:44 AM

solved by swiitching to bazzite-nvidia-open (without steam gaming mode)

CCheckYourFax solved by swiitching to bazzite-nvidia-open (without steam gaming mode)

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:46 AM

That's what I'm doing. The 4tb drive is completely wiped and I've tried installing the non-gamemode and during the install process on the completely wiped and reformatted 4tb drive the PC shuts down to bios with no boot option available

OOykotGaming That's what I'm doing. The 4tb drive is completely wiped and I've tried installi...

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:46 AM

Try power surge, sounds like some stuck hardware

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:46 AM

when pc is off, switch power to off on PSU (or pull plug) and try to turn on PC, fans should start spinning for a split second and then turn off again

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:46 AM

then wait 20 seconds and reboot

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:47 AM

then try to reinstall

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:48 AM

Why didn't you just try to rebase to the other image rather than reinstalling?

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:48 AM

Reinstalling was unnecessary

CCheckYourFax then wait 20 seconds and reboot

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:48 AM

I'll try this out as soon as it get home. Thanks. Hopefully

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:49 AM

And I've tried rebasing before but from game mode to gamemode and steam never repaired. After reinstalling gamemode from a clean wipe it started functioning

OOykotGaming And I've tried rebasing before but from game mode to gamemode and steam never re...

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:50 AM

You can try completely deleting the .local/share/steam folder

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:50 AM

and then running ujust fix-reset-steamujust fix-reset-steam

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:50 AM

this will reinstall steam

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:50 AM

this sometimes helps with seg fault

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:52 AM

By the way, it might also helps to stick to bazzite-41 for now, as you're not alone in game mode not working properly on nvidia

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:53 AM

when you reinstall bazzite, don't update and just rebase to bazzite-deck-nvidia:41bazzite-deck-nvidia:41

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:53 AM

this will pin you to 41 for now

CCheckYourFax You can try *completely* deleting the .local/share/steam folder

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:55 AM

Tried all of that. But maybe it didn't work due to my ssd issue at hand

CCheckYourFax By the way, it might also helps to stick to bazzite-41 for now, as you're not al...

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:55 AM

Will do. I'm installing the Non-gamemode variant currently

OOykotGaming Will do. I'm installing the Non-gamemode variant currently

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:55 AM

Okay, that one should work fine on 42

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:55 AM

i have it installed

CheckYourFax•4/24/25, 11:55 AM

with rtx 3070

CCheckYourFax Okay, that one *should* work fine on 42

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:57 AM

Sadly everything was finally functioning well until the issue when I started installing games. I have 40+ games already installed fine. Played the last of us for an hour. Then purchased the second one and started downloading a boom crash

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 11:59 AM

Then it kept crashing so I tried running ujust fix-reset-steam and it deleted steam but never worked again. So then I went to re-install bazzite onto the current boot drive I was having trouble installing games onto and It crashed mid bazzite install 5x in a row. So I decided to install bazzite onto my 2tb nvme and it worked first try. That's why I was worried the ssd might be cooked

OykotGamingOP•4/24/25, 12:01 PM

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