I’m using Arch currently and the following issues have been present on every install of Steam I’ve had:
- Controller inputs break constantly. If I use big picture mode, the games will be in some quasi state where it both detects my controller and doesn’t.
- The menus take like 3 seconds to open.
- The right click menu in the system tray does not work 30% of the time.
- Worst of all, when I close a game, steam will not detect that it closes. Once this happens, no other page will load, no menus will open, and i have to
killall steam -s SIGKILL, since no other signal works. It’s also survived SIGKILL multiple times. How? - In game, the shift+tab menu does not work; half the buttons are unresponsive and the game will crash upon closing shift+tab
The arch wiki had nothing on this.
Flatpak and native installs have the same problem, reinstallation does nothing, steam --reset does nothing.
These issues occur across multiple games with different engines.
It’s very strange since I have a very generic system and most people seem to have great experiences.
Is steam the only program you’ve noticed having issues? If not then here’s a scary possibility to consider: Hardware Failure
I recently had my power supply destroy my MB and SSD and there were signs that I ignored just before it all went down.
If you still have your arch install usb available then boot from that and pick the memtest86 option in the boot menu to see if your ram has any faults.
Power supply can cause memtest failures? How do you know if the issue is the RAM sticks, the mobo sockets, the CPU, or the PSU? Lol