AlienOne
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•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
My double-Xeon processor system lists 72 as the number for my system (maybe due to hyperthreading?)....which is why I can run Steam games like Starfield/Elden Ring/Crysis Remastered with no problem on my Alienware laptop running Bazzite 42, and I could not run the same exact games on my desktop on the same exact OS without entering startup commands that limited core counts. Worth noting.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
That right there......is EXACTLY what my issue was. I just encountered the same thing with Elden Ring this evening. Apparently, any game utilizing EasyAntiCheat has some kind of 40-logical cores limit to it according to my research. And, that thread lists several other games with the same issue.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
Perhaps I sound dumb to you. All I can say is that I went as far as completely resetting/recompartmentalizing/reformatting the drives in order to wipe any sort of permissions issue I had before, I reinstalled the games while in Bazzite, and the games would still not start up---until I entered those startup commands. Make of that what you will.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
On the Windows side, the only game that replicates the startup problem is Dead Space 2, and the only way I fixed that (on the Windows side) back in the day was to tell my system to run on 1 core. Starfield starts right up on the Windows side. Both sides can update the game. There's no more disk write or file locked issues anymore. Windows has registry entries for the right "1000 level super user" (not sure how else to term that) on those drives
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
Is your system a single CPU system? My system is a double CPU system using Xeon processors....perhaps that's it.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
and, if so, how is that somehow bypassed by entering a CPU core startup command in Steam?
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
is there some kind of hard-locked permission burned into the drive's circutry that is circumventing a reformat while outside of an operating system environment?
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•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
The GParted program used to partition and format the drives as btrfs was downloaded while in Bazzite as an ISO and put on a bootable USB drive.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
How does that have anything to do with permissions?
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
Then, when I entered the aforementioned startup command, the game started up with zero issue.
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•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
Every single time, those games would not start.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
and went through twelve different protons, deleting the pfx file every single time I tried a new one
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
I then re-installed both games while in Bazzite
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
I reformatted two drives and three different partitions using GPartition started from the BIOS as btrfs partitions and started up in Bazzite without even going into Windows during troubleshooting the permissions issue. That meant that Windows had not even touched the drives at all or messed with permissions when I reformatted the drives.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
The only way Crysis would start up is if I added that startup command.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
After I fixed the permission issue, Crysis still did not start up.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
I fixed the permissions issue
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
My fix also explains why other people had no problems starting up these games and I was having problems starting them up--because the issue was directly related to how those games in particular were reacting to my hardware on startup (number of CPU cores specifically). I hope that this thread winds up helping someone else who may be in a situation as unique as mine.
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by AlienOne on 5/12/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Games not starting in Steam on Bazzite
That aside, I do appreciate the help getting my fstab file corrected and the permissions issue highlighted....Those fixes certainly needed to happen as well. I'm happy to report these games starting up in Linux are no longer an issue for me.
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