Any advice for hearts of iron 4? I can play the vanilla game by skipping the launcher. I'm a huge old world blues fan and I need the launcher to turn the mods on for the steam deck.
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So tried using the Proton Experimentsl and other versions for CK3. Can get it to start but crashes quite a lot. Anyone else had this issue?
Does there happen to be an ETA for a fix? I saw there was a launcher update that rolled out today, so I tried launching CK3 from Steam but it still doesn't work (I also tried with the beta version of the launcher).
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Also would like to know this, it's been 2 or 3 months now since the issue was originally raised.
The direct executable workaround for CK3 is all well and good, but the game crashes a lot and I can't begin a new game.
No chance I'm going to buy any upcoming DLC while I cannot play the game properly.
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As a status update I can tell you that our QA took delivery of their Steam Decks at the beginning of this week. From that you may draw your own conclusions, as I won't be promising anything (bugs take the time they take to fix).
As for your problems running CKIII - Unfortunately they won't get solved by the launcher team, you'll need to contact the game team. I do believe I stated that earlier in this thread
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Thanks for the status update!As a status update I can tell you that our QA took delivery of their Steam Decks at the beginning of this week. From that you may draw your own conclusions, as I won't be promising anything (bugs take the time they take to fix).
As for your problems running CKIII - Unfortunately they won't get solved by the launcher team, you'll need to contact the game team. I do believe I stated that earlier in this thread
Thank you for the update.As a status update I can tell you that our QA took delivery of their Steam Decks at the beginning of this week. From that you may draw your own conclusions, as I won't be promising anything (bugs take the time they take to fix).
As for your problems running CKIII - Unfortunately they won't get solved by the launcher team, you'll need to contact the game team. I do believe I stated that earlier in this thread
Re: the game vs. launcher issue, my game is currently modded and so I'm not able to un-mod or change the mods on my game without the launcher, or without manually deleting the files in the mod folder (I assume).
And for now, I'd rather play the Elder Kings version of the game than vanilla, even if I can't create a new game or enable the latest update!
My personal choice, of course. But that launcher issue is still paramount for me.
Appreciate that you're working on solving it, though. Thanks for the transparency and I understand that you want to make no promises.
So managed to get launcher to work with CK3 but keeps crashing. This didn't used to happen so is there a particular version of CK3 or proton I should rollback to?
Copied this from another source but here is a workaround to get Stellaris to launch on the steam Deck.
I've tested and this works.
So if you switch over to Desktop mode - open steam library - right click on Stellaris, manage, browse local files.
When that page opens up, look down near the bottom for a file just called "stellaris", it'll have a grey back ground with a "!" in a box.
Right click it and copy location.
Then go back to Steam library and right click on Stellaris, open properties, on the general tab you'll see a launch options, paste the file location in here.
Then a space and add %command%
Then when you next run Stellaris either from Desktop mode or from the normal steam deck bit, the game will run normally.
I've tested and this works.
So if you switch over to Desktop mode - open steam library - right click on Stellaris, manage, browse local files.
When that page opens up, look down near the bottom for a file just called "stellaris", it'll have a grey back ground with a "!" in a box.
Right click it and copy location.
Then go back to Steam library and right click on Stellaris, open properties, on the general tab you'll see a launch options, paste the file location in here.
Then a space and add %command%
Then when you next run Stellaris either from Desktop mode or from the normal steam deck bit, the game will run normally.
This also works with the launcher if you do the same steps with the 'dowser' file, so you can access and manage your mods.
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How do I find the "dowser" file? I got it running now but I prefer to have the launcher as it enables me to launch a save straight away.
Are there still no fixes ? Im not talking about deleting or moving any file in the deck...im just curious...
Maybe some explanation or an update of the dev would be nice...just to know if they working on something or dont they care aboit it ?!
Even my EA launcher and 2K launcher work great, thought those were terrible...
Maybe some explanation or an update of the dev would be nice...just to know if they working on something or dont they care aboit it ?!
Even my EA launcher and 2K launcher work great, thought those were terrible...
I have also a arch Linux computer and it works without any problems. So it must be some kind of library issue or something triggering this. I'll try investigate further
The command that steam on arch uses is this:
While steam deck uses this:
I have no idea what SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier and if that steam deck adding this causes the issue. But If I change the Stellaris launch command on my steam deck to this:
It starts working, however the latest save is no longer showing up on the launcher, I can find the steam cloud save however when I launch the game. Has the loading of save been removed from the launcher?? That was the most important feature of the launcher, especially on the steam deck because now I will get loading time to just open the game and then loading time once more when loading the save.
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While steam deck uses this:
I have no idea what SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier and if that steam deck adding this causes the issue. But If I change the Stellaris launch command on my steam deck to this:
It starts working, however the latest save is no longer showing up on the launcher, I can find the steam cloud save however when I launch the game. Has the loading of save been removed from the launcher?? That was the most important feature of the launcher, especially on the steam deck because now I will get loading time to just open the game and then loading time once more when loading the save.
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Hi, has there been any updates? Still experiencing problems.As a status update I can tell you that our QA took delivery of their Steam Decks at the beginning of this week. From that you may draw your own conclusions, as I won't be promising anything (bugs take the time they take to fix).
As for your problems running CKIII - Unfortunately they won't get solved by the launcher team, you'll need to contact the game team. I do believe I stated that earlier in this thread
We are working away at controller support as well as towards validation running under Proton - Due to upcoming releases, as announced elsewhere. Native Steam OS support is going to take a bit longer.
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Hi! I may not be the smartest guy in the world, however I did notice that it works for hoi4 because there is a launcher option that allows you to just skip the launcher. This also means that you can have mods, guides, achievements, what have you. I was wondering if this could just be a feature for other paradox games? Since the problem is just the launcher (at least for me) playing paradox games is totally possible and from my understanding of it the steam workshop is the only real issue. At least for the time being could this be a simple fix? Again I am not at all sure and I might even be having a separate issue.
That is in the purview of the dev team for each game, rather than the launcher dev team - HOI4 made that decision, the others have not.