hi @kisak-valve may i get more of a step by step instruction of how to do the proton log part you are asking me to do cause i am new to the linux platform and i do not know where to go to do a lot of these things, i only started using linux like a month ago. and half of that time i was trying different versions because some did not function the way i was expecting them to.

i am using CachyOS KDE plasma the first version i liked and did what i wanted it to do, until steam broke.

i am not a programmer and am very lost when it comes to debugging things. i have spent the last 3 decade using windows or mac and most of the time when a problem comes up they are much easier fixes.

https://gist.github.com/ellie-7734/80837e6c08fe0d6e98f7fe16558df568

@kisak-valve i did add that proton log to the launch options via the properties for 1 game so far. i tried launching it, nothing new happened and my PC is struggling to find the log that it was supposed to generate

@ellie-7734 are there any proton games working on your end?
As far as proton logs go, if you were to get logs for among us, the resulting log file would be called steam-945360.log and it should be in your home folder. If the log file isn't even generated, then it sounds like the issues start before proton even has a chance to try and launch the game.

Something that might give more information if the log is missing is running steam itself through your terminal, then trying to run a game, and then going back to the terminal to see if any errors pop up there.

steam-526870.log
steam-945360.log
are these what im looking for?

i think the reason my computer was struggling to find the file is cause i have 40TBs of storage drive space 32 of it is specifically for games most of it is empty, but its usally faster if i navigate to a specific section and start the search on my own before enlisting the help of my computer due to how much storage i have cause i don't like uninstalling co-op games. cause like it seems to always be that my friends wanna play the one game i don't have immediately available to play.

From those logs I'm going to assume you are using a ntfs drive, if so that's likely the reason why nothing works. NTFS isn't recommended to be used on linux, but if you really must you can try following these steps to get it working https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

steam-1599600.log
steam-474960.log
steam-648800.log
steam-863550.log
steam-1366540.log
steam-960910.log

@simifor i am not sure, cause i do not know which games are or are not "proton games" the games that i know are working are:
cities:skylines
alchemy origins
big pharma
antichamber

@ellie-7734 all those working games have linux native builds available, so they wouldn't use proton unless you specifically forced them to in the game's properties

@simifor i already have the drives mounted properly and all these games were working prior to this last week. i have already rebooted since they were mounted properly.

@ellie-7734 again, ntfs is not recommended to be used on linux, specially with proton. The partition mounting isn't enough for it to work properly and it's prone to breakage. You can test this with a small game like among us, try installing it to a non ntfs partition and it'll likely work without changing anything else

so the solution is to delete the thousands of hours of play time in the single player games and their save files that i have on my game drive and spend the weekend reinstalling all my games....

@ellie-7734 Hi

why dont u try this

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

You can ping me here if you are stuck at any part of the instructions or are unsure of how to proceed at any step.

Your game ntfs drive is mounted at /run/media/lorelei

Start from this part of the steps from the image. id -u

Basically its some permission issues related to ntfs, which can be solved with the instructions from that link.