A few months ago, I opened a topic about some issues I had with my proton games on Steam since I’ve quit my old Ubuntu Studio : Steam Runtime issue
I’ve tried a bunch of tricks, gave all the information about every single soft or hard on my computer with no success. Worst thing was the problem was here whatever distro I tried.
Having more time, I’ve thought about it again and realized there was one single common point between all the distros I’ve tried : Pipewire.
To be sure, I’ve installed a Mint 21.3 with 5.15 kernel but without pipewire : everything was working again ! But not with Garuda LTS with the same kernel , nor with Mint 22.1.
So I’ve simply launched a Steam game on the current Garuda after disabling my external audio interface by choosing the bios disabled internal soundcard. The game launched and played flawlessly. Then I simply switched back to my audio interface to get the sound again. Problem solved !
It’s really a curious bug, because symptoms differ depending on the game : Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous was crashing during launch. Ori and the blind forest was launching with no sound and showed curious artifacts, the character was able to pass through foes or walls and the controller was responding oddly, it was very strange.
So if your Steam games which were working with Proton on your old distro don’t work anymore, have a look at your audio conf !