HGL
rival-black
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
mute-gold•3y ago
are you loading the Heroic app in game mode or a game directly?
rival-blackOP•3y ago
Game directly trough a steam shortcut
rival-black•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
rival-blackOP•3y ago
I tried Sifu and Absolute Drift
O, yeah forgot to mention, i use EGS
rival-black•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
mute-gold•3y ago
Are you closing through the Steam Deck menu or in-game?
rival-blackOP•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
other-emerald•3y ago
that's most likely a bug in steam big picture mode
steam deck ui doesnt work well with non steam games
rival-blackOP•3y ago
I have other non steam games and they exit just fine
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
other-emerald•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