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[HL 25] Half-Life Bugs Steam Deck #10254

Open ifohancroft opened 10 months ago

ifohancroft commented 10 months ago

I don't know how, but my girlfriend managed to install Half-Life on my Steam Deck a couple of days ago, but the game had problems (mostly with jumping not working) so she uninstalled it.

Today, I tried installing it again, but just opening the Half-Life library entry bugs the Steam Deck.

  1. The install button doesn't work. Neither hitting A while the install button is hovered, nor touching the button on the screen.
  2. After you've opened the Half-Life entry from the library, you can't restart the Steam Deck (or turn it off). It freezes during turning it off. Also, you can't even bring up the power off menu by holding the power button after opening the entry from the library.
  3. Browsing around the library and the software, suddenly other buttons don't work, like pausing a game that's downloading, the Steam button doesn't work (the physical one), although ocasionally the one on screen also stops working.

If you do manage to restart the Steam Deck, it all works as expected again, as long as you don't open the Half-Life entry in the library. If you do, all the bugs start all over again.

MetalClaw368 commented 10 months ago

Try installing the Half-Life game in the Steam Deck's Desktop Mode, and I was able to get it from there. I hope this helps!

schmalpal commented 8 months ago

This happens to me too. The issue isn't that you can't install HL, MetalClaw, it's that you literally can't view the HL game entry on the deck without it screwing everything up - power menu no longer works, steam button doesn't work, A button basically doesn't work, you can't perform any actions other than switching library views. You have to force a shutdown and restart by holding the power button. I previously had HL installed as well, so it has something to do with installing and then uninstalling it. Doesn't matter if I've purged every HL file from steamapps, it's still doing it in January 2024.