Linux Steam Game Client Frequently Crashes KDE Desktop??

[JeZ-l-Lee]

Hi,

Hoping there is some work-around for this:
I installed Linux Steam, updated Steam, & then bought "Metro Redux Bundle" for $30.
After that I was just browsing the Steam store on the Linux Steam client and then everything went black?
I could still pull up Konsole, but I did not know what to do so I rebooted with all my apps still open.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!

Jesse

[GreyGeek]

Linux Steam Game Client Frequently Crashes KDE Desktop??

That black screen usually indicates that your display manager crashed.

See: https://www.lifewire.com/kubuntu-p2-2202573

killall plasmashell
kstart plasmashell

or

kquitapp5 plasmashell
kstart plasmashell

[claydoh]

Does everything disappear (open windows, etc), or just the desktop?
If you can alt-tab between applications, and alt-space opens Krunner, then plasmashell crashed.
If you can't alt-tab and alt-space opens Krunner, then Kwin crashed.

You can restart either from Krunner:

plasmashell

kwin-x11 --replace

As to why, I do not know, may have to dig into system logs and/or journalctl. It is a bit unusual that the Steam client itself would do that, I think, as it doesn't itself do anything that might cause this to happen.
~/.steam/steam/logs
~/Steam/logs
These might shed light if the client crashed.

These commands might help locate logged errors


Which driver version do you have?



btw, Metro 2033 is hard, beautiful, and hella fun to play. Well worth the money. It taxes my gtx 1050 at high settings, but the card is only 2gb ram. It does pretty good at medium settings.
I think I am going to fire it up when I am done working tonight, haven't played it on the new TV yet

[JeZ-l-Lee]

Hi,

I have current non-beta proprietary nVidia display driver v390.48.
(it's the default one that Kubuntu installs)

Haven't played the two games yet, but I should be fine with below specs:
- AMD FX 4GHz 8-core CPU/32GB RAM/nVidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 GPU

Thanks!

Jesse

[GreyGeek]

I'm running an i7 with 6GB of RAM and an NVidia GT 650M using 2GB. I installed the NVidia driver by running
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
in a Konsole. I run Universe Sandbox^2 without problems, even those simulations with massive particle counts. Ditto for Portal2. My grandson play Team Fortress 2 without any lag at all. I used the Steam Installer in Kubuntu 18.04's repository. All in all, Steam and its games run great.