I've reinstalled zorin 18.1 4 times in order to potentially fix anything that I might have messed up in the installation process, and everytime I do it the games always run perfectly for a few days then it stops suddenly. I've tried running different versions of proton to no avail, I've changed to DX11 on config settings and nothing. I store my games on a NTFS drive since I dual-boot, but i transferred some games onto an ext4 drive and i'm still having the same issues.
Here is my inxi:
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 5
speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:7590
class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6
compositor: gnome-shell v: 46.0 driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: HP OMEN 27qs serial: CNC5150WS9 built: 2025
res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23")
diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa
v: 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD
Radeon Graphics (radeonsi gfx1200 LLVM 20.1.2 DRM 3.64 6.17.0-20-generic)
device-ID: 1002:7590 memory: 15.62 GiB unified: no display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 7 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon Graphics (RADV GFX1200) driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:7590
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM
20.1.2 256 bits) driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
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Are Secure Boot and Fast Boot in BIOS disabled? Is Steam installed as Flatpak, APT Package or did You downloaded it directly from Steam? Did You tried it with switching from Wayland to Xorg and reverse?
Yes, both are disabled. I installed steam both as apt, removed the usr files and reinstalled it again as a deb. I tried switching to xorg as well and it didn't make a difference. I opened journalctl -e and this is what I got:
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: wine: '/mnt/C41C4E371C4E2530/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/2124490/pfx' is not owned by you
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Adding process 30388 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Adding process 30389 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=2124490]
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30389 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30388 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30386 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30385 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30306 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30305 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30304 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:53 staticsoup-MS-7A34 steam[24792]: Removing process 30303 for gameID 2124490
Apr 20 15:07:56 staticsoup-MS-7A34 systemd[3115]: Started app-gnome-org.gnome.Terminal-30390.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
Apr 20 15:07:56 staticsoup-MS-7A34 dbus-daemon[3146]: [session uid=1000 pid=3146] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' requested by ':1.339' (uid=1000 pid=30394 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.real" label="unconfined")
Apr 20 15:07:56 staticsoup-MS-7A34 systemd[3115]: Starting gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server...
Apr 20 15:07:56 staticsoup-MS-7A34 dbus-daemon[3146]: [session uid=1000 pid=3146] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
Apr 20 15:07:56 staticsoup-MS-7A34 systemd[3115]: Started gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server.
Apr 20 15:07:57 staticsoup-MS-7A34 systemd[3115]: Started vte-spawn-be58273d-87f0-40be-a72e-aaf38b4303f2.scope - VTE child process 30410 launched by gnome-terminal-server process 30398.
Apr 20 15:07:59 staticsoup-MS-7A34 wpa_supplicant[1126]: wlp39s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-61 noise=9999 txrate=432300
Apr 20 15:07:59 staticsoup-MS-7A34 kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp39s0 OUT= MAC=f8:3d:c6:c7:25:89:d8:be:65:af:4b:12:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.163 DST=192.168.1.162 LEN=324 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=63628 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=43454 LEN=304
Apr 20 15:08:01 staticsoup-MS-7A34 kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp39s0 OUT= MAC=f8:3d:c6:c7:25:89:d8:be:65:af:4b:12:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.163 DST=192.168.1.162 LEN=324 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=63706 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=43454 LEN=304
Apr 20 15:08:02 staticsoup-MS-7A34 kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp39s0 OUT= MAC=f8:3d:c6:c7:25:89:d8:be:65:af:4b:12:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.163 DST=192.168.1.162 LEN=324 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=63715 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=43454 LEN=304
Apr 20 15:08:03 staticsoup-MS-7A34 kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp39s0 OUT= MAC=f8:3d:c6:c7:25:89:d8:be:65:af:4b:12:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.163 DST=192.168.1.162 LEN=324 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=63755 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=43454 LEN=304
My first thought is this, especially since you're running off an NTFS drive for your games as you said. It complaining about permissions may mean that you're running into an issue there. And even if you moved all those game files over to an EXT4 drive / partition, those files may still be giving you permission errors that you may not be noticing right away.
Were these games installed via Windows first and then launched on Linux later? Have you tried a completely fresh install of these games on a dedicated EXT4 drive that you made entirely in Zorin, without it being touched with the Windows fingers at all?
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