I think it’s totally worth it as long as you don’t expect heavy duty games to run unreasonably smoothly:
the performance is great for its form factor.
the device is not locked down at all. SteamOS itself it a full featured desktop distribution. The default interface (called game mode) is designed to be accessible to controller users. But you can boot into desktop mode if you want which is a complete KDE plasma interface.
sleep mode is very convenient. Since developers are too cool to implement pausing, being able to put the device in sleep mode is very comvenient. When the device resumes the game resumes as well.
since it is not locked down prospects of piracy are great. It just takes some time to get used to lutris and understand the process. Knowing how wine and wine prefixes work is helpful.
It just takes some time to get used to lutris and understand the process. Knowing how wine and wine prefixes work is helpful.
This is not necessary at all. Installing a cracked game on a PC and copying the files over is all you need to do. Then you just add the exe to steam and force it to run with proton.
So I tried to do this today and the game wouldn’t launch. Logs show that steamapi_init() failed so it looks like it is because of the steam emulator the game uses. I looked around and apparently one could use the WINEDLLOVERRIDES variable to make proton use the dll that the game provided rather than something that Steam has. (Like setting it to steamapi_64=n.) But even that did not work. Have you any experience with this?
Make sure the cracked game works on your PC. Make sure you’re launching the game in compatibility mode with proton or whichever. 95% of the games I’ve tried have worked straight out of the box like that. For the rare ones that didn’t I had to download the Goldberg steam emulator and put that in the game folder. I hope that helps with your issue.
I think it’s totally worth it as long as you don’t expect heavy duty games to run unreasonably smoothly:
This is not necessary at all. Installing a cracked game on a PC and copying the files over is all you need to do. Then you just add the exe to steam and force it to run with proton.
I was aware that steam can accept random executable but for some reason I just defaulted to lutris since I was used to that. Thanks.
The barrier is truly tiny. My steam deck is essentially a pirate box.
So I tried to do this today and the game wouldn’t launch. Logs show that steamapi_init() failed so it looks like it is because of the steam emulator the game uses. I looked around and apparently one could use the WINEDLLOVERRIDES variable to make proton use the dll that the game provided rather than something that Steam has. (Like setting it to
steamapi_64=n.) But even that did not work. Have you any experience with this?Make sure the cracked game works on your PC. Make sure you’re launching the game in compatibility mode with proton or whichever. 95% of the games I’ve tried have worked straight out of the box like that. For the rare ones that didn’t I had to download the Goldberg steam emulator and put that in the game folder. I hope that helps with your issue.
Thanks.
Yup. Great summary; no notes.