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Ubuntu 24.10 No Games Launch

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11376 · opened 2024-10-23 by Evansch0 · updated 2025-10-23 · 8 comments · github
EEvansch0 2024-10-23 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1726604483
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 24.10
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: AMD

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I expect for steam to launch games not just stall on the process IPC:CSteamEngin . No games launch regardless of what game it is (have not tried a native linux game. steam is the deb build.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. open steam
  2. try to run a game
  3. after 10 minutes of stuck on "launching" check for any abnormal processes related to steam and see IPC:CSteamEngin with ~170-180mb of ram allocated and 1.8% cpu usage
PPPSchL 2024-10-30 github

I have a similar problem (games start only after IPC:CSteamEngin running for about 5 min, 25% processor usage on a 4-core i5-4670K)
I suppose this is related to the old processor, on my 12th generation intel laptop games start immediately

EEvansch0 2024-10-30 github

yeah im on dual xeon e5-2690 v4

Wwhizse 2024-12-08 github

I've had a similar problem with the "IPC:CSteamEngin" running for several minutes before a game is launched (native and Proton), but only when the Steam client was launched from a terminal. Not from a shortcut via GNOME shell.

In my case this was caused by the soft limit for max open files being set very high in the terminal 1073741816, versus 9216 in gnome-shell. Lowering the limit in the terminal using (ulimit -Sn 9216) made the problem go away.

PPPSchL 2024-12-09 github

This is great information! Running steam from a terminal (where -n is 1024 on my Ubuntu 24.10), solved the problem for me! Still wondering what "IPC:CSteamEngin" does however...would not seem very good behaviour if it tries allocating file handles up to the limit...

Mmathew2214 2025-08-20 github

this is also happening on stock Debian Trixie.
valve, please fix.

even happens to native linux games. @kisak-valve please remove the proton tag.

Mmathew2214 2025-08-24 github

just installed debian trixie on my laptop. same issue. seems to be affecting all debian-based systems.
valve, please fix!

Mmathew2214 2025-09-17 github

Still occurring on latest steam client beta and stable.

Mmathew2214 2025-10-23 github

im still having this issue. Debian Trixie. Linux 6.17.4

Nothing extracted yet.