problem:
I just installed EOS and installed the steam package. Terminal installation went smooth and afterward it did the post install update when I clicked the runtime. Subsequently, when I try to actually launch the client, whether clicking it or running ‘steam-runtime’ in the terminal, it won’t load anything up. It’s running because I can see it as a task but nothing steam related comes up on the screen. After looking around I believe it has something to do with lib32-nvidia-utils being a higher version than my driver 495.46 but I don’t know how to downgrade packages. Pls help
Have you tried steam-native-runtime ?
This is what I normally use and have had zero issues with it so far
edit Just noticed in your screenshots mention wayland, have you tried under x11?
All I know is I always install the same way no matter the DE, though I have been using KDE for months now without switching back to XFCE (my other favorite de) on X11. The only issues I have ran across so far are with the actual games, not steam itself. The only time I have had issues with steam launching is with the Flatpak (from memory may be snapd, but pretty sure)
I think the problem is a partial update. Try sudo pacman -Syu and apply all the updates and reboot.
nvidia-dkms should also be at 510 unless you intentionally downgraded it.
If sudo pacman -Syu doesn’t give you any updates, try to regenerate your mirrorlist as the one you are using (the first one in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist) seems to have issues.
To downgrade packages you can install the downgrade utility with yay -S downgrade after that you can run sudo downgrade nvidia nvidia-utils and you can choose the version from there
