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conscious-sapphire

steam deck gta v rockstar games failed to initialise

just reinstalled but its not launching after with errors
Solution:
i just deleted a file and that launched the game
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conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
CommandMC
CommandMC2mo ago
Run flatpak update in terminal
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
it opened a black window for a sec and didnt launch the game
CommandMC
CommandMC2mo ago
"wineVersion": { "bin": "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-27/proton", "name": "Proton - GE-Proton8-27", "type": "proton" },
You are on an ancient version of GE-Proton
HeroicBot
HeroicBot2mo ago
Please follow these instructions on using GE-Proton: 1. Head to the Wine Manager in Heroic, click the "GE-Proton" tab, and install "GE-Proton-Latest" 2. Head to the settings for your game(s) (icon on game card in library). In the "Wine Version" dropdown, select "Proton - GE-Proton-latest" 3. Rename your Wineprefix (path is shown in game settings), e.g. from current-name to current-name_bak. To clarify: Rename the actual folder on your hard drive, do not change the option in the game settings. Note: This will make game-specific configuration data (e.g. in-game settings or save files) unavailable. If this is an issue, let us know & we'll help you restore them.
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
it gave an error but also launched the rockstar launcher. only thing is i cant sign in bc its not letting me open the keyboard
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
it just keeps giving unable to launch game, please reinstall error
CommandMC
CommandMC2mo ago
Did you try verifying your game files? The error in that log is quite strange
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
yeah i even uninstalled and reinstalled before the verify
CommandMC
CommandMC2mo ago
Could you send in the following file then:
/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/.local/state/Heroic/logs/games/9d2d0eb64d5c44529cece33fe2a46482_legendary/repair.log
/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/.local/state/Heroic/logs/games/9d2d0eb64d5c44529cece33fe2a46482_legendary/repair.log
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
Solution
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphire2mo ago
i just deleted a file and that launched the game
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
lemme just try and see what it was args.txt inside is -nobattleye -noBE @args.txt ig it was an old workaround
CommandMC
CommandMC2mo ago
Strange, that file doesn't appear in the list of files shipped with the game & I don't recall ever seeing someone recommend adding it
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
yeah for whatever reason not all the files from the previous install got removed and stayed there in the new one no idea where i couldve found the workaround tho, couldve been anywhere (google, reddit, youtube, etc)
CommandMC
CommandMC2mo ago
Any files not added by the game don't get deleted on uninstall. Some games save your... saves in the game directory, we don't want to accidentally delete those
conscious-sapphire
conscious-sapphireOP2mo ago
ah i see. thanks for your help

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