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Steam store doesn't load

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I'm running Wine Steam on Lutris on Ubuntu 20.04. When I open the store it doesn't load any pages except for the Downloads page. I already tried downloading msttcorefonts and adding the -no-cef-sandbox argument and neither of those things worked.

Also I tried just launching my game directly from Lutris but when I do it the framerate dramatically drops. It doesn't do that when I open it from the Wine Steam runner, which I know because since the downloads page still works I can open my game from there, but that means I have to delete Wine Steam and install it back again so I can delete the game and install it back again.
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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Sounds like https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44985

You can disable hardware acceleration in the Steam settings -> Interface

(or disable a dll but unchecking a box is easier I think)
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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spoon0042 wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:51 pm Sounds like https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44985

You can disable hardware acceleration in the Steam settings -> Interface

(or disable a dll but unchecking a box is easier I think)
I messed around with the Interface settings and it seems to have worked but now I have an entirely different problem because it won't let me install the one game I wanna play because it displays the sign that it's only available for Windows (all other games where that's also the case are open to installing)
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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@nucleartuna

If you are trying to run a Steam game - surely you are better off using the native Linux Steam Client and Valve's Proton Compatibility Layer (which has been built into the native Linux Steam Client for over 2 years now).

I generally do all my gaming - using the Proton-GE variant of the Proton Compatibility layer - alongside the native Linux Steam Client.

The Windows Steam Client doesn't run well under Wine at all - if at all - and hasn't for months now.

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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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Bob Wya wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 8:02 am @nucleartuna

If you are trying to run a Steam game - surely you are better off using the native Linux Steam Client and Valve's Proton Compatibility Layer (which has been built into the native Linux Steam Client for over 2 years now).

I generally do all my gaming - using the Proton-GE variant of the Proton Compatibility layer - alongside the native Linux Steam Client.

The Windows Steam Client doesn't run well under Wine at all - if at all - and hasn't for months now.

Bob
Valve's Compatibility Layer is far from working on all games so far - they officially tested and greenlit mostly major titles, the rest varies from running poorly to not at all. The one I wanted to play happens to be the latter.

I already solved the problem on this thread mostly, if I can't solve the new one that came up I'll eventually have to bite the bullet and start dual-booting, but my current SSD doesn't have enough space for both 2 SO's and all my data.
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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nucleartuna wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:22 pm ...

Valve's Compatibility Layer is far from working on all games so far - they officially tested and greenlit mostly major titles, the rest varies from running poorly to not at all. The one I wanted to play happens to be the latter.

I already solved the problem on this thread mostly, if I can't solve the new one that came up I'll eventually have to bite the bullet and start dual-booting, but my current SSD doesn't have enough space for both 2 SO's and all my data.
I'm aware that Proton is not a magic bullet...

Have you tried Proton-GE ?
This aims to have wider compatibility than stock Proton.

We can't really help much more - without knowing:
  • Whether your graphics card supports Vulkan (which is pretty much vital for gaming performance)...
    E.g. by getting the output from:

    Code: Select all

    inxi -C -G
  • What Steam game(s) you're struggling to play...
etc.

Thanks
Bob
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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Bob Wya wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:44 am
nucleartuna wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:22 pm ...

Valve's Compatibility Layer is far from working on all games so far - they officially tested and greenlit mostly major titles, the rest varies from running poorly to not at all. The one I wanted to play happens to be the latter.

I already solved the problem on this thread mostly, if I can't solve the new one that came up I'll eventually have to bite the bullet and start dual-booting, but my current SSD doesn't have enough space for both 2 SO's and all my data.
I'm aware that Proton is not a magic bullet...

Have you tried Proton-GE ?
This aims to have wider compatibility than stock Proton.

We can't really help much more - without knowing:
  • Whether your graphics card supports Vulkan (which is pretty much vital for gaming performance)...
    E.g. by getting the output from:

    Code: Select all

    inxi -C -G
  • What Steam game(s) you're struggling to play...
etc.

Thanks
Bob
I entered the command you mentioned but I don't know how to interpret the output, here's what came out:

Code: Select all

CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
  3: 798 4: 798 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 830M] driver: nvidia v: 450.102.04 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 830M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.102.04 
as I said I mostly solved the problem with the client interface itself (it's janky as hell but I can navigate it now so it doesn't matter) but now I can't download only one of my games, it's locked with an "available for Windows" stamp on it. I don't wanna disclose what it is because I'm embarrassed about playing it but it's the one game I used Wine for before and all other games in my library are available for download, even though they're also only for Windows/Mac.
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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Bob Wya wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:44 am
nucleartuna wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:22 pm ...

Valve's Compatibility Layer is far from working on all games so far - they officially tested and greenlit mostly major titles, the rest varies from running poorly to not at all. The one I wanted to play happens to be the latter.

I already solved the problem on this thread mostly, if I can't solve the new one that came up I'll eventually have to bite the bullet and start dual-booting, but my current SSD doesn't have enough space for both 2 SO's and all my data.
I'm aware that Proton is not a magic bullet...

Have you tried Proton-GE ?
This aims to have wider compatibility than stock Proton.

We can't really help much more - without knowing:
  • Whether your graphics card supports Vulkan (which is pretty much vital for gaming performance)...
    E.g. by getting the output from:

    Code: Select all

    inxi -C -G
  • What Steam game(s) you're struggling to play...
etc.

Thanks
Bob
ok forget everything I said I tried Proton GE and this time it worked. Running smoothly, no problem.

I also suspect that regardless of that the problem with what I was trying was that the game was for some reason still on my computer from when I tried the Linux Steam Client even though I had deleted it, because when I downloaded it again it didn't require me to reinstall the game, so even if that stops working for some reason I think I'll know how to fix it now.

Thank you so much!!!
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Re: Steam store doesn't load

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np 8)

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