Bazzite GNOME forever loop

Good morning one and all.
I have a mainstay laptop and decided to install Bazzite on my older box. I don't have the specs on hand but I remember it's an older i7 and nVidia gtx 980. I downloaded the bazzite-gnome-nvidia and used Rufus to make bootable USB. UEFI non CSM, GPT, Large FAT 32.

I went through the installation OK, reclaimed the M2 SSD for Linux and cracked on. But after removing the flashdrive and booting into Bazzite, I see this screen (attached) and it loops through this and Bazzite logo and little spinning wheel, then black screen and back to this.

I'm pretty sure I must have botched something, but I can't think what.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance =]
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