Can't close game in Steam Deck's Gaming Mode
I just installed Heroic on my Steam Deck and i really enjoy it, but for some reason if i try exiting a game while playing it in Gaming Mode it gets hung up on exiting status. The only way to exit it is to restart Steam Deck. Is there a way to fix it?
11 Replies
rising-crimson•3y ago
are you loading the Heroic app in game mode or a game directly?
conscious-sapphireOP•3y ago
Game directly trough a steam shortcut
jolly-crimson•3y ago
is this happening for all games? or specific games? I've seen that happening but for games that have an external launcher for example, the game exists but a launcher is still running in the background
conscious-sapphireOP•3y ago
I tried Sifu and Absolute Drift
O, yeah forgot to mention, i use EGS
jolly-crimson•3y ago
hmmm I don't have Sifu but Absolute Drift should close just fine, maybe share a game log after trying to close the game to see if there's something useful there
rising-crimson•3y ago
Are you closing through the Steam Deck menu or in-game?
conscious-sapphireOP•3y ago
I’ll try it and post it here
Steam Deck menu
Checked the log, last line is just a command to start the game
itchy-amethyst•3y ago
that's most likely a bug in steam big picture mode
steam deck ui doesnt work well with non steam games
conscious-sapphireOP•3y ago
I have other non steam games and they exit just fine
probable-pink•3y ago
This is just speculation, but it may be the case that Steam is asking Heroic to exit, which then just exits without quitting the actual game; Steam in turn just sees "Oh something is still running" and waits
itchy-amethyst•3y ago
thats the likely cause but theres more games that open multiple windows or programs, they should still be capable of closing correctly
I'm thinking like a settings window before the actual game