HGL
ambitious-aqua
Adding games to Steam
Hello team,
Running 2.6.2 on a Steamdeck with most current version of Steam.
I have installed a number of games using Heroic via my Epic Games account.
They appear in Heroic and play properly when launched from Heroic itself, added as a non-Steam game via SteamOS mode.
Heroic is configured to automatically add games to Steam but they do not appear in any collection once installed. This applies to every game in Heroic.
The game page settings in Heroic show an option to Remove from Steam, which I have tried, followed by Add to Steam again manually.
They still do not appear.
I wonder if there is anything I can check or try to fix this easily.
I wasn't sure how to drop my log file here as I'm posting from discord in my phone. Apologies.
Thanks for the help.
9 Replies
Are you launching Heroic from Desktop mode?
As far as I know, the files it modifies to add your games are read-only while in Gaming mode
flat-fuchsia•3y ago
You have to fully exit Steam in Desktop Mode to ensure that the shortcuts are added by Heroic
you cannot add while in game mode
ambitious-aquaOP•3y ago
I'm running in Game mode, yeah.
The initial install of the games was done in Desktop mode. I also tried the remove and add in Desktop mode and rebooted the deck just to be safe.
I'll try again.
Unless you mean I have to kill Steam while I add the shortcuts... Let me try that...
flat-fuchsia•3y ago
that's what I mean
ambitious-aquaOP•3y ago
Ok that'll probably be it then, ask I hadn't killed the steam process. Brb.
Assuming it works the same way as on normal desktop Linux, you can also just "right-click" Steam in the system tray and exit from there
flat-fuchsia•3y ago
it's the same
ambitious-aquaOP•3y ago
Hurray, it worked!
Took a while to do them all, but killing Steam was the trick. Thanks both 🙏🏻👍🏻
passive-yellow•3y ago
Add to steam and remove from steam only works if steam is closed. The problem is that steam cache the current state of none steam games added or removed.