Steam client version (build number or date): 1756942958
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Gentoo
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
GPU: Nvidia
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam detects incorrect System Information details for RAM and Storage.
Only half of system RAM seems to be detected.
All storage devices seem to be counted under SSD regardless of their type.
This includes devices that shouldn't be counted at all, such as CD-ROM drives and USB drives.
Item
Incorrectly Reported
Actual
RAM
131072 Mb
256 GiB
Number of SSDs
8
3
SSD sizes
20T,20T,4000G,2000G,0B,0B,0B,0B
4 TB, 2 TB, 4TB
Number of HDDs
0
2
HDD sizes
20 TB, 20 TB
Here is system output of correct stats for reference:
$ free -g
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 251 7 242 0 2 243
Swap: 0 0 0
$ lsblk -Q 'TYPE !~ "part|rom" && TRAN != "usb"'
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 18.2T 0 disk
sdb 8:16 0 18.2T 0 disk
nvme1n1 259:0 0 3.6T 0 disk
nvme0n1 259:3 0 1.8T 0 disk
nvme2n1 259:6 0 3.6T 0 disk
Full Steam System Information dump is available for reference on gist.
It's May 2026 and Steam on Linux still reports this information incorrectly. I won't take up too much space here, but I also created a GIST which shows my actual disks, and RAM, versus what Steam's Linux client reports.
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam detects incorrect System Information details for RAM and Storage.
Only half of system RAM seems to be detected.
All storage devices seem to be counted under SSD regardless of their type.
This includes devices that shouldn't be counted at all, such as CD-ROM drives and USB drives.
Here is system output of correct stats for reference:
Full Steam System Information dump is available for reference on gist.