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Launching steam will sometimes lock up my Linux screen, but audio still works (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So when i launch steam everything else up, fire Gnome music, it will all show a application failed, then it will freez my entire system but again audio is fine. this is annoying does anyone else have this same issue?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a similar problem -- when I launch Steam, the whole system slows down to a crawl. But, it still recovers after a minute or so.

I have background shader processing enabled in Steam, so maybe that's what's causing this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back ground shaders? I think mine is turned off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then I don't know lol