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metropolitan-bronze
Games issue – Slipways on steam deck via Epic games store
Hi I've previously gotten Slipways to work via Heroic but it's recently stopped working and I don't know why (full disclosure I'm not great with linux).
Other epic games store games are working so it's not an EGS logjn issue. I've updated Heroic and Slipways, tried repairing Slipways in Heroic and tried restarting the Steam deck.
I attach the logfile and think it is uploaded here –https://0x0.st/8zI7.log
37 Replies
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
Sorry I neglected to describe the behaviour. When clicking play on Slipways it changes briefly to playing but does not appear to launch the game and then switches back to the original state where you can press play to try to start Slipways.
sensitive-blue•6mo ago
try repairing the game, and if that doesn't work report back
tried repairing Slipways in HeroicLog definitely points to something being wrong with either the game executable or prefix though Try renaming
/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Slipways to /home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Slipways_bak and re-launching the gamesensitive-blue•6mo ago
sorry for not reading more carefully, i had to look for it even with it being pointed out
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
I did that and it triggered a Wine popup but after that had completed when I tried to relaunch the game I have the same problem, Heroic says playing and then stops itself. I'll attach an additional log file here.
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
log file post switching to new target
subsequent-cyan•6mo ago
command asked you to rename the prefix folder to _bak but not to change the setting for the prefix to that folder
this way you'd have a backup of your prefix, and save games, but let heroic recreate the prefix without losing the backup
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
Aah apologies, not very savvy when it comes to this - should I try to rename that folder now or has my error invalidated that approach?
exotic-emerald•6mo ago
just change the target in Heroic settings is sufficient
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
Apologies if I'm wrong but I think I have and that didn't fix the issue? See picture of the steam deck where I've hopefully changed the correct info and the problem hasn't resolved
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
subsequent-cyan•6mo ago
what did you change??
metropolitan-bronzeOP•6mo ago
The end of the wine prefix folder from Slipways to slipways_bak
subsequent-cyan•6mo ago
ok lets back up and run step by step what you did..
when commandMC sent the message what did you do?
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
I edited the end of the wine prefix folder shown in the screenshot to slipways_bak. Then I tried to run the game. That produced a popup message stating that I think something was being updated or installed. Apologies I should have screenshotted that or taken a not of the exact message
subsequent-cyan•5mo ago
Ok that first time was correct. What did you do after? Because you seem to have edited the prefix setting in the game
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
I've not changed anything in the game? The only thing I did was change what is shown in the screen shot, then ran the game in heroic
subsequent-cyan•5mo ago
Your logs show you changed the game's prefix to _bak
So you renamed the prefix folder on disk through a gui or command line tool, then you edited your game to point to the new name of the folder?
At least thats what it appears you did
Heroic wont randomly change the place it looks for the prefix by itself
If you look in ~/Games/Prefixes/default do you have one or two slipways folders
Actually I think we are getting terms confused.
What should have happened:
Without heroic open:
- the slipways prefix folder should have been renamed to the _bak version
- no options in heroic should be modified, you should not change any settings, the prefix folder heroic should point to is the slipways folder without the _bak. It is ok if the folder doesnt exist, heroic creates one if its not there.
- start slipways again
- post new log
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
OK so I think I've done that but seems to have the same problem. Log file attached
Yup that's showing the same error
Have you tried installing the game onto the internal hard drive of the Steam Deck instead? Just ruling out SD card issues here
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
I haven't although it was previously working which is what is frustrating
Have you installed other games onto the SD card between it working & now?
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
Possibly - I installed Balatro recently but will check whether it was on the SD card
Also that was steam directly rather than via EGS
That's fine
This might sound weird, but: How big is the SD card you got in there? Does it have a model number? Would you mind sharing how much you paid for it?
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
I don't mind - it's a SanDisk Ultra 512GB. Paid 35 GBP on an Amazon sale. It still has about 300GB free
Alright, that sounds fine
Just wanted to make sure you didn't get a fake card
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
Class 10 U1 A1 if any of that info is useful
So yeah two things to try:
- Download GE-Proton from Heroic's Wine Manager & enable UMU as shown here: https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/1044301598018515105/1316138869107720193
After that, select GE-Proton in the game settings & try running the game
- Try uninstalling the game & re-installing it on internal storage
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
So within Slipways if I switch from Wine version Wine latest to Proton GE latest that did allow the game to start (appears to have lost my data but that is presumably because of the slipways folder error on my part)
I hadn't actually enabled UMU yet
Your save data is still somewhere in the Slipways_bak folder (assuming you haven't deleted that)
We can search for that & restore it once the game is confirmed running
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
Yes I assume I can sort that. However is it odd that Wine doesn't work but Proton does?
Wine-GE's getting a little old now, next Heroic version will actually default to downloading GE-Proton
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
I managed to get it running by switching from Wine latest to Proton latest within Slipways options
OK so is that the underlying issue fixed or is there still something odd going on?
If it works with Proton, I wouldn't worry about it
metropolitan-bronzeOP•5mo ago
Thanks for all your help by the way to everyone in this thread - you've all been incredibly kind and patient!
Not a problem at all
Your save data should be at
Slipways_bak/drive_c/users/deck/AppData/LocalLow/Beetlewing/Slipways/saves. You have to copy that to Slipways/drive_c/users/deck/AppData/LocalLow/Beetlewing/Slipways/saves
(if there isn't a deck user folder in the Slipways prefix, use steamuser insteadexotic-emerald•5mo ago
to validate the SD card, run
sudo f3probe /dev/mmcblk0 in the terminal if that is still a concern