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steam deck tools, currently only vortex
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Vortex refuses to launch #3

Closed Flood123789 closed 1 year ago

Flood123789 commented 1 year ago

I been using your tool since I had gotten my deck a few weeks ago, when to refresh my game and re installed your tool from scratch along with it. Vortex refuses to launch after nuking all files from your app. Factory reset steamdeck and the issue persists. I noticed one possible issue here: 20230419_051824 I seem to have an access denied error that I'm not sure how to correct. Can I get your assistance?

pikdum commented 1 year ago

What release channel is your steam deck on? That error shouldn't be the issue, but this might be the same as the other issue.

I probably need to do a fresh install on my system to be able to reproduce.

Flood123789 commented 1 year ago

i am currently on the stable channel

pikdum commented 1 year ago

@Flood123789 Should have a fix:

  1. completely remove the broken Vortex: 
    rm -rf ~/stl/
rm -rf ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/pikdum-vortex.desktop
  2. run "Update Pikdum's Tools" on desktop
  3. run "Install Vortex" on desktop

Issue was caused by a pre-release Vortex 1.8.0 version, which is crashing on startup here. This quick fix just forces Vortex 1.7.8 to be installed instead.

I've opened https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/issues/792 to track Vortex 1.8.0 support and/or an upstream fix.

Let me know if that fixes things. :)

Flood123789 commented 1 year ago

That did the trick! Thank you for the help!

pikdum commented 1 year ago

No problem, thanks for reporting the issue. I'll go ahead and close this issue then.

aerojet029 commented 1 year ago

when closing Vortex, it autoupdates even with the setting checked not to update, forcing it to break itself. any way to force a newer version of proton or experimental?

pikdum commented 1 year ago

any way to force a newer version of proton or experimental?

Yes, but couldn't get newer Proton GE to work at all on Steam Deck for whatever reason.

You can install a new Proton version like:

~/stl/prefix/steamtinkerlaunch dcp https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/download/GE-Proton7-55/GE-Proton7-55.tar.gz

And you can tell Vortex to use it in ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/global.conf:

USEVORTEXPROTON="GE-Proton7-55"

Proton GE 7-55 was the latest working version I could get running, though. If somebody can figure out how to get Proton GE 8-3 working, then that should fix the Vortex 1.8 issues.

Or maybe there's a different Proton build that would work? My best guess is that the newer versions need some system dependencies that the Steam Deck doesn't have the proper versions of yet.

aerojet029 commented 1 year ago

using Proton Expiremental through steam seems to have the vortex manager working fine, Been trying a ton of things to get it to work through launching from steam, but the "deployment" of mods is just completly borked. also I'm not sure how to create an "excecutable" to work when downloading from Fireforx

pikdum commented 1 year ago

Just shipped a fix that should have Vortex 1.8 working. Probably need to re-install to be safe, though.