HGL
rising-crimson
Games not being added to steam
Just got a steam deck and was adding some of my gog games to my steam library. Was able to add games initially (added thief 2 and Deus ex) then all of a sudden it has stopped worked. Either having the "add games automatically" setting or individually adding the games with "add to steam" does nothing. This stopped working after I added T2fix mod as I wanted to add fan missions. I added the exe to the install of Thief 2 then added t2fix as a game to heroic then used the "run exe on prefex" to start the patching process. I then removed the T2fix game I created along with its prefex folder (I'm very new to this so still figuring out linux).
Since then I've not been able to add any games to steam at all, adding them and rebooting steam or the deck just gives me the option in heroic to add it again which does nothing. Additionally adding the exe via steam doesn't seem to work either, though it works with other apps like gimp and blender.
I've also reinstalled heroic launcher and deleted any prefixes files that were left over, along with deleting user settings via discover.
So I don't know what's left to do, clearly I'm missing something or need to enable an option.
3 Replies
rising-crimsonOP•4w ago
Also seems I can run games via heroic launcher just, just can't add them to steam
I don't believe this, as soon as I post this I tried one more time now stuff is getting added again ... I changed nothing in heroic launcher and is on default settings and just this one reboot it's decided to work again. Anyway why would this of happened? I've been at this for over 2hrs trying fix this and apparently doing nothing fixed it?
sensitive-blue•4w ago
steam either has to be off or restarted if you add a game to steam from heroic
rising-crimsonOP•4w ago
Yes what I was doing was adding games in desktop, exiting steam then restarting steam which did nothing even restarting the deck itself. I also tried adding games while steam was off none of that work, this also happened after clean reinstall heroic launcher, same deal with restarting steam etc. Then I mentioned I just rebooted the deck for what was the 10th time and its just started working again?
But anyway it decided to work again, I'm happy. Aside from the prior annoyance, heroic launcher is really neat