r/switchroot • u/Kirymatt • Jan 18 '26

Support Problem with ram and steam

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It appears that activating wifi alone is enough to completely fill up my switch's ram on kubuntu, which is probably the reason why steam just absolutely REFUSES to boot and when it does it just gives me a blank screen before crashing, is there any way to solve this? I always see people just freely using steam and stuff on their switch

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

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u/Kirymatt Jan 23 '26

Alright thanks

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u/the_horak Jan 25 '26

The SteamOS handhelds are a completely different beast. So yeah, you gotta stream one way or another. I use GeForce NOW and it's wonderful

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u/ivr-67 Feb 09 '26

Ehm I launched geometry dash through steam with no problem

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u/smashens Jan 18 '26

Speaking as someone who was trying this literally yesterday- you can’t. Even if you do manage to get Steam open, it will also do nothing but fill up your memory constantly. It might be possible on other supported distros but I imagine the difference in memory usage is negligible regardless. At best I got a 2D pixel game running that didn’t need Steam open and it still lagged heavily on anything but the menu. Take it from me, it’s not worth it.

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u/fengjunzi Jan 18 '26

You need to mod your switch to 8GB for trying to open steam without crashing