steam games crashing

[I only Play Grand Magus]

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[king of nothin]

ive had this with Kernel + Nvidia driver versions until i found the working combination for me. is difficult to say from a distance what the problem might be for you. i also dont like windows btw but window-mode is quite okay (-;

[MesaPrimeX]

Try lowering your resolution, not all games support 1080p+ (1440p and up)

[Zyro]

What do you mean by "crashing the computer"? What does happen, what do you see?

[I only Play Grand Magus]

As an example i run dota, then after like 3mins everything goes black. And i have to reboot, now i had zero issues with my hardware before unbunto.

[x_wing]

Originally posted by Aaron Swartz:

As an example i run dota, then after like 3mins everything goes black. And i have to reboot, now i had zero issues with my hardware before unbunto.

Could your share with us your hardware specs? Also, What drivers are you using? Mesa? Nvidia?

[Zyro]

Originally posted by Aaron Swartz:

As an example i run dota, then after like 3mins everything goes black. And i have to reboot, now i had zero issues with my hardware before unbunto.

Reboot by clicking with the mouse or by reset button? If it's the later, it's probably hardware failing, like something overheating (GPU? CPU?) or memory failures.

[Marlock]

What version of Ubuntu?

What version of the Linux Kernel is it using now?

Do you have a graphics card from AMD or NVidia on the PC?

If yes, did you install proprietary drivers for it?

Did you update everything to latest version available on your system (system updates, kernel, gpu drivers)?

[bob]

If you launch Steam from the terminal it will display information about your crashes. If you like you can pipe the terminal output to a file, that way you'd be able to view it after a crash.

[I only Play Grand Magus]

I rebooted the computer back to windows. And decided to invest in a nice new laptop, for my kali linux. Gaben gave a big talk about linux, clearly its not the reality.

[bob]

Originally posted by Aaron Swartz:

I rebooted the computer back to windows. And decided to invest in a nice new laptop, for my kali linux. Gaben gave a big talk about linux, clearly its not the reality.

Lol

I have a 1800 usd gaming rig running Linux. Thousands of Steam users game on Linux.

What you did wrong was that you didn't do anything in trying to figure out your problem. Plenty people here asked you questions and gave you suggestions that you ignored.

If you have 0 willingness to Google ♥♥♥♥ or spend a small amt of time fixing your problem then Linux isn't for you. Linux is the reality BUT you aren't.

[Marlock]

Originally posted by Aaron Swartz:

I rebooted the computer back to windows. And decided to invest in a nice new laptop, for my kali linux. Gaben gave a big talk about linux, clearly its not the reality.

Did you just say Kali Linux?!

Ok, maybe its time for todays "Even Kali developers say its not for daily use, much less for Steam gaming" talk...

Even though it looks normal on the surface (a Desktop Environment), under the hood Kali is setup as a very safe but very locked down environment, not really suitable for daily use.

I'm not joking about the devs, they said it themselves on the distro website.

If you can, I recommend dumping Kali for some other Linux Distro. For people recently comming to Linux, Linux Mint is a great choice, easy to use, wonderful design (not just aestethics), well documented, quite self explanatory, similar to windows in what is good on windows.

If you truly need Kali for safety and privacy issues, well... dont use Steam on Kali! Its a seriously unnecessary risk since it downloads lots of closed source executables (the games), runs all kinds of statistics about the host system (telemetry), phones home all the time about those data and hosts a lot of runtime libraries that it can use instead of the ones provided by the host system, some newer, some older, some just different, maybe some with security breaches, obviously not under Kali's full control. This makes for a very large extra attack surface for someone trying to breach into you system, and for very easy tracking from intercepted signals.

If you are a reporter, activist, leak source, privacy freak or whatever (i don't think you are but "Aaron Schwartz" as nickname is quite suggestive ) just have Steam run from a different PC than the one used for safe comm, thats the best way to go about conciliating gaming with those.

Since there has been a lot of people complaing about Steam on Kali recently (meaning also a lot of people trying to use it for that), could I ask you why/how did you choose that distro? I'm genuinelly curious about this apparent rise in adoption for common uses.

[I only Play Grand Magus]

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[torra]

Originally posted by Aaron Swartz:

Originally posted by Marlock:

Originally posted by Aaron Swartz:

I rebooted the computer back to windows. And decided to invest in a nice new laptop, for my kali linux. Gaben gave a big talk about linux, clearly its not the reality.

Did you just say Kali Linux?!

Ok, maybe its time for todays "Even Kali developers say its not for daily use, much less for Steam gaming" talk...

Even though it looks normal on the surface (a Desktop Environment), under the hood Kali is setup as a very safe but very locked down environment, not really suitable for daily use.

I'm not joking about the devs, they said it themselves on the distro website.

If you can, I recommend dumping Kali for some other Linux Distro. For people recently comming to Linux, Linux Mint is a great choice, easy to use, wonderful design (not just aestethics), well documented, quite self explanatory, similar to windows in what is good on windows.

If you truly need Kali for safety and privacy issues, well... dont use Steam on Kali! Its a seriously unnecessary risk since it downloads lots of closed source executables (the games), runs all kinds of statistics about the host system (telemetry), phones home all the time about those data and hosts a lot of runtime libraries that it can use instead of the ones provided by the host system, some newer, some older, some just different, maybe some with security breaches, obviously not under Kali's full control. This makes for a very large extra attack surface for someone trying to breach into you system, and for very easy tracking from intercepted signals.

If you are a reporter, activist, leak source, privacy freak or whatever (i don't think you are but "Aaron Schwartz" as nickname is quite suggestive ) just have Steam run from a different PC than the one used for safe comm, thats the best way to go about conciliating gaming with those.

Since there has been a lot of people complaing about Steam on Kali recently (meaning also a lot of people trying to use it for that), could I ask you why/how did you choose that distro? I'm genuinelly curious about this apparent rise in adoption for common uses.

Not really sure what your ranting on about, if you read the post, it states i was running ubuntu,
and as a result ive found it easier just to reboot back to windows, as so few games are supported with linux. And i made no referance to playing steam games with kali lol, again if your read the post, i decided to treat myself to a new laptop to run my kali. and just as an after thought i dont know anyone in my line of work who uses kali, other than on a live usb, in a VM.

That is quite pathetic...

Statements like "it crashes my computer" and "everything goes black" have zero technical information, and you have made absolutely no effort towards actual troubleshooting attempt. People here asked you relevant information and tried to help you know. By the way despite almost nonexistent information you provided I agree with Zyro that it is very likely overheating problem, probably due to improper system configuration.

Also you are still on Steam forums, so mentioning Kali Linux has produced justified assumptions... unless you were trying just to show off.

Your afterthought might be onto something. Okay lets pretend I fell for it... if you imply that in your "line of work" people need to use tools included in Kali Linux ...sigh... - you should step your game up, because your basic troubleshooting skills are terrible and you may find yourself out of work very soon.

You don't need to respond in this thread really, you don't want to deal with issues or configure your system and there is nothing wrong with going back to Windows, its solved for you. Just as there is nothing wrong with trying Kali, but don't be surprised when your pretentious attitude is called out.

[I only Play Grand Magus]

Thanks for that level 0 profile input.

[torra]

you are welcome, glad you learned something