Team Fortress 2 crashes

General system Gaming, sound and video
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Yes and no as the games them self do not rely on steam to run technically, it is basically just a laucher for the games.

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I know that but my point being the Steam launcher seems to break a lot when installed from the default repos, Iā€™ve seen that on different distributions and on different online Linux communities. And if Steam doesnā€™t launch you canā€™t launch your games.

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@smokey shame on me. Didnā€™t read that carefully :frowning:

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Letā€™s perhaps discuss the merits of Flatpak Steam later. For the moment, OP still didnā€™t get his stuff fixed.

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Almost 2 years I have never had it not launch for me yet

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Yes sorry I was forgeting my own advise here

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Take it easy fam. No problem.

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I can dig up plenty of topics that say otherwise, I agree to just stick to the topic.

A third solution would be to install Windows :rofl:

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I can verify that Team Fortress 2 launches for me and online gaming works.

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It doesnā€™t crash anymore when I do this, but there are missing textures where text should be

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I have no idea why, but it just works with this

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Try this guide for fixing other issues about fonts. It might work for you as well.
Also, would be good to install Windows fonts as well. Hereā€™s the Arch wiki link for doing that. TL;DR: yay -S ttf-ms-win10-auto, else check the wiki.

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Probably because Flatpak pulls in everything it needs better than with the native version.

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This worked for me. Seems all the necessary MS fonts install fineā€¦

yay -S ttf-ms-fonts

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-fonts

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As written here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microsoft_fonts#Legacy_packages

ttf-ms-fonts are legacy package

So I think typing $ yay -S ttf-ms-win11-auto are best of all, because newer version which should be backward compatible

(instead of $ yay -S ttf-ms-win10-auto by @winnyace).

Edit: ok ttf-ms-win11-auto fails on installation currently. :sweat_smile::sweat_smile::sweat_smile:
So use $ yay -S ttf-ms-win10-auto i guess.

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Correct. And it has worked just fine. Including all my documents previously made in Windows 10 and 11 years ago. Iā€™ve had zero issues. So, i guess what works for one, may or may not work for another. Just saying in my case, ttf-ms-fonts works for me.

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Quite literally any works here, I think. The idea is to get some Windows fonts on the system because it uses those as fallback fonts.

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