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You can run steam trough the terminal and you will see what causes the error. But it seems you have had some issues with your install, I would recommend you try another distro.
If you don't want to try installing Plasma as they handle things differently in the background so it my be more stable.
I worked out I can easily install Plasma and switch between DEs, so have done that. The game doesn't crash on Plasma, so it seems to be GNOME related. Which is a shame because I love GNOME and am not a fan of KDE, but I guess I'll have to use KDE for a while 😅
Nice nice, I thought as much, sometimes it do be like that. You might be able to disable the compositor for the game itself OR use gamescope, but i have never successfully achieved that.
Turns out it's not fixed on KDE. It's just that it randomly lets me play for 5 mins without crashing sometimes.
I've tried downgrading graphics drivers, rolling back to a previous kernel, no change 😭
I still get the impression something is wrong with your install, could you try booting from a external drive to a gaming Linux OS? If that still happens maybe something is wrong with your HW.
I don't have a spare external drive 😭. I tried installing on a flash drive and the game still crashed, but the whole thing was so slow I can't be sure of the cause.
I tried to create a partition on my drive and install bazzite but apparently it doesn't like that so I dunno 🤷. I guess I might try installing Mint on the partition and see how that goes.
My distro has been fine for years up to this point. I've bounced around others but always come back.
Running Steam through the terminal doesn't give a whole lot more info, the game just freezes, nothing in the terminal until I click the force close option that pops up. Then it shows: