Game will no longer run in Game Mode, but will run in Desktop. Formerly worked fine in Game Mode.
Have a game that was previously installed on my SD card on my Steam Deck. Moved the SD card over to my GPD device after installing Bazzite, most of the games already installed on the SD card auto added to Steam by themselves.
Played the game several times and no issues.
Now the game will only run in desktop mode. If I switch to game mode and try to run it, it crashes immediately. Also switching back to deskop after trying to launch it in game mode makes it crash on desktop mode as well, untill I reboot.
I only made these changes beween when I know it worked last.
- copied over my save file from my Steam Deck
- changed the boot behavior to boot directly to desktop
I have reverted both of these changes and the issue still persists.
I have also:
- deleted the proton files with the steam menu
- opened location
/var/home/(user)/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/(game location) and completely removed that directory, allowed the game to recreate a new directory (which ended up being the same id#)
- attempted to re-add the game through lutris (as that's how I initially installed it on the Steam Deck)
- removed/re-added the game link in Steam
I'm out of ideas what to do to fix this issue.
Other installed games on the SD card contiune to run fine, regardless if I boot to desktop first, then enter game mode.40 Replies
The game still runs fine if I move the card back over to my Deck, so it can't be an issue with the card or files.
Best starting point imo will be gamescope logs
how do I find the logs
~/.gamescope-stdout.log for example?
Haven’t gone through these logs myself so I’m not sure what to expect thoI'll give it a whack and see what I find
And a few other logs under home directory as well
I have the same on my deck until the last libinput one
huh, the gamescope log files does not exist in the dame directory on my Deck
Run a few games in game mode ig
Or it’s just different dolphin config
I'm having to do a file search because the file structure appears to be significantly different
Stock steamOS is just /home instead of /var/home iirc
yea it's not there either
checked multiple directories and can not find it..
I no longer have a stock steamOS system to check but I believe that last error is the problem
file search can't even find a file with "gamescope" in it
this is dumb
let me go ask on the Deck discord
ok so the gamescope log apparently no longer exists on the deck
the logs are wrote to a journal file somewhere