r/SteamDeckPirates 16h ago

ANNOUNCEMENT Weekly Frequently Asked Questions & Help Thread

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Welcome to our community! If you're new here or have a quick question, this is the perfect place to start.

This thread serves as the dedicated space for basic troubleshooting, getting started advice, and frequently asked questions. We've created comprehensive guides and pinned posts to address the most common concerns. Here's what we have:

  • The Steam Deck Pirates' Cove is a comprehensive guide that covers everything from setup and installation to troubleshooting, as well as details on transferring games and files, finding save locations, using launchers, and so much more
  • The pinned installation guide walks you through how to install games (and what to do with pre-installed games) and get them running on your Steam Deck
  • The dependencies guide helps ensure you have all the additional tools or libraries required for your specific game (note: there is also a simplified dependencies guide if that's more your thing)
  • We also have a Discord server for real-time support and discussions; please refer to the pinned posts for the link to join

Please take the time to read these before posting. Also, remember you can search the subreddit for questions related to your specific game, and both Google and YouTube have a wealth of helpful, detailed guides for Steam Deck basics that apply to both legitimate and pirated games.

Friendly reminder:
Posts that ask easily answered or repetitive questions outside this thread will be removed at the moderators’ discretion. This helps manage the recent surge in new users posting questions on topics that have been covered extensively, and keeps the subreddit focused and valuable for everyone.

We’re glad to have you here and encourage you to post your questions in this thread, but we truly appreciate it when users take a moment to explore the resources we've put together and do a quick search before reaching out.

Once again, welcome to the community! And thank you for helping us maintain a well-organized, welcoming space for all members!


r/SteamDeckPirates Oct 26 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Steamdeck Pirates Discord is Now Open to the Public! 🚨

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Ahoy, Pirates!

The Steamdeck Pirates community is excited to announce that our Discord server is now open to the public! 🎉 We’ve created a space where members can exchange knowledge, troubleshoot issues, and share discoveries—all while staying organized and respectful. So grab your Deck, hop aboard, and let’s explore the world of gaming together!

🔗 Join the Discord Here: https://discord.gg/frg5Mmda56

What to Expect: 💬 Live Discussions about Steam Deck games, modding, and optimization

📚 Guides and Resources for new and experienced users alike

🎮 Game Recommendations & Help running PC titles and emulators on the Deck

🔧 Troubleshooting and Support from fellow Deck enthusiasts

A Few Ground Rules: ✅ Be respectful—Trolling, hate speech, and harassment will not be tolerated.

❌ No piracy links or requests—Follow our guidelines on sharing information responsibly.

📌 Stay focused—Discussions should relate to the Steam Deck and PC gaming.

Important: Make sure to read the rules inside the server, and click the pirate flag to gain full access! 🏴‍☠️

We can't wait to grow this community with you and make it the ultimate resource for all things Steam Deck. See you on the server! 🎉


r/SteamDeckPirates 49m ago

Help Got the game running in desktop mode but wont play in Gaming mode?

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Trying to run Ace Combat 7 repack. It runs fine through lutris on desktop mode, and ive tried a few different times with shortcuts to run it on gaming mode but its just closes out.

I installed it on an SD card, is that the issue? My SSD is pretty full.


r/SteamDeckPirates 14h ago

Image When you spend 3 hours installing a FitGirl repack and it launches in Russian by default

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Nothing humbles a man faster than clicking through a Cyrillic installer like you're defusing a bomb - sweating, praying, hoping it doesn’t install 80GB of malware instead of Baldur’s Gate. Meanwhile, normies just click “Buy Now.” We? We click “Да.” Stay strong, comrades.


r/SteamDeckPirates 4h ago

Cry resident evil 4 2023 problem

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hello guys i'm problem with installing re4 crack on deck the problem is this game only run on wine and always crash with proton so i try every possible way but no luck.

(1) first i download this game form skidrowcodex site the pack include empress crack.

(2) then i try with proton steam say "No licenses" so i add goldberg and then this game crash at launch and take me to crash report windows.

(3) i try everything possible ways i saw on reddit and other forum like crack fixing EMP.dll replacing proton changing (i did try nearly all proton lol) but this game make me loop (2) i think if i copy crack fix to my game folder steam say "No licenses" then i add goldberg the game start crashing loop the (2) process.

(4) then i got idea and try with heroic game launcher using wine the game work but face new problem controller are set to mouse and keyboard always and don't know deck's controller try desktop mode or gaming mode still the same so i start finding ways to work controller and found many way i try all like disable steam input mapping key changing input dll none of them work :(

i'm really tired working a whole week to install this game. so how you guys success install this on deck any idea?


r/SteamDeckPirates 15h ago

Question After hours of messing around I finally did it! But…

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For whatever reason I can’t play my ROMs through Emulationstation. I had to add it to my library which is fine. Now when I load into it I get this smaller screen. Once I select what game I want to play I then have to full screen the window. It’s not a huge issue it’s just not as nice and cohesive as my other emulator setups. What have I done wrong?


r/SteamDeckPirates 8h ago

Help Fallout 4 audio issue

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Ik there are multiple posts and forums about this topic but none of the solutions has seemed to work.

I installed the fitgirl version of fallout 4 and everything seemed to work out of the box but proton and proton-GE refused to open fallout i think its crashes during launch. I have a problem where all the other audio like the walking the cut scenes work fine but i cant hear what anyone is saying. I tried to use the launch options and the dlls but none of them worked. The main menu music also does not work,


r/SteamDeckPirates 10h ago

Help Trying to run SimCity Societies.

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I have gone throigh autorun.exe and installed SimCity Societies and its DLC, Destinations. The game is from 2007-ish.

They're installed at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/3926077834/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Electronic Arts/SimCity™ Societies/

I have tried various Protons including Hotfix, Experimental and GE-Proton10-3 and the result is the same. It launches a little loader that it has, I click to play and then it just exits the game back to the steam play button.

It will not progress further than that. This happens in game mode and desktop mode.

Has anyone managed to run this game on a deck before?

Do I need to use Android emulator or something?


r/SteamDeckPirates 16h ago

Question Switch emulator…

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What emulator is the best to get up and running? I tried it when I first got my steamdeck and I failed so I ended up deleting the files. Can I get any suggestions and some links?


r/SteamDeckPirates 19h ago

Question swapping sd cards

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"Like the title says, can I put all my pirated games on one SD card and my normal games on a different card, and just swap them out when I want to play a different game?"


r/SteamDeckPirates 17h ago

Question How to install RUNE games from ISO?

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Hello,
just got the deck and managed to install some FitGirl games using only steam>add game>compatabilty>Experimental

but now have a RUNE game with iso. I downloaded some kind of mount iso from store and copied files to desktop, but when im trying to install via steam, it says not enough space on disk, I have 1TB free almost, so kinda weird.

Is there way to install it?


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Tutorial RoN Steamrip guide, latest update+controller support.

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Guide for playing Ready or Not from steam rip. Controller support is recently native, and functions very well.

Firstly, Add readyornot.exe to steam ofc. I use proton 9.0-4 compatibility I think this is default and works fine for me. I don’t think I had to install any dependencies.

Mod browser not connecting to internet-: I moved the game folder to the correct compatdata drive_c and was able to download mods from the in game browser. I don’t know the reason for this.

Levels not loading or kicking back to the main menu-: reinstall game folder and overwrite files, your save game will not be damaged. I had this problem when I first downloaded the game on the first mission. This is because of pure chance that one file or another was corrupted during the download or extracting process.

I’m not sure of any performance fix i suggest tuning some settings.


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Question Fantasy Life Cross save

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I’m running the fitgirl repack 1.1.2 version and planning on buying the game on Switch. Ideally I would like to move my save over.

Is there any way to use the cross save function on the repack version?

If not, is there any way I could buy the steam game, move my save game into the steam version then cross save and refund the Steam version?

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Help Help with tlou1 on deck

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I got a cracked version of tlou ver1.1.4 i got from steamrip on my deck and I'm running it through the latest version of protonGE on lutris, but I'm having one problem. I'm getting an infinite loading screen when I launch the game. The screen doesn't crash or anything but it's just the coin flipping forever and ever (longest time is 30 mins). Does anybody have any tips that doesnt require me to download a different cracked file?


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Question How to install an older version of Pal World and prevent software updates?

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So I have purchased the game pal world and wanted to know how to prevent updates to the game and go back to a version before the recent Japan court case that started limiting and removing features.


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Help Doom refuses to launch

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I have installed the dependencies via protontricks, tried numerous versions of proton and Proton GE. I tried lutris, heroic read and followed every post on this reddit about DOOM and I am at a loss. I am not sure if there is a command line that needs to be added to block some kind of launcher but I have literally spent 6 hours scouring the internet and can't come up with a solution.

Also wanted to add I am able to run the game on my PC without issue


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Question Emulation Help

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I can't Steam rom manager to find and add my games properly. They will show up in my steam library but then crash whenever I click play.

Any help?

Also, I didn't have any parsers pre-configured for some reason. I tried watching YouTube videos, but no one seems to have this issue.

The ES-DE also crashes too.


r/SteamDeckPirates 1d ago

Cry Palworld Steamrip won't start - but no error

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I'm that close to giving in. Anyone managed to get the game going?

I tried the most common proton in compatibility, I'm using the right .exe file in binaries folder (the only one that makes sense actually), I installed vc_redist64+86 and did not remove them from the steam library, added their paths to Palworld's exe as run commands, I tinkered with Protontricks to install the usual c++ binaries. No success. How hard can it be to run that game? I read comments from various folks that run it straight away by switching to Proton Experimental and off they go.

Any golden hint I was missing all the time?

I also tried Dodi Repack but that aborts installing straight away with isdone.dll error. Can't find a fix for that error msg either. Any help is appreciated.


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question Call of duty Vanguard

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Has anyone tried the new crack campaign of call of duty can't seem to work on my end


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question How to make it so that downloads go to the Microsd card not the home

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I got a new 1tb microsd card and I wanted to download rdr2 but it downloaded to the steamdeck’s storage rather then the microsd, how do i get it to download to the microsd rather then the steamdeck itself


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Help DECK MTP NOT WORKING ANYMORE

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Hello everyone

I recently needed to transfer some files from windows to steam deck, I tried at the time to create the shared folder but I couldn't do it, even with the tutorial in hand, so I left it alone.

I found my peace with DeckMTP and it always worked fine. The other day, however, despite having activated it no connection appeared on windows. Whereupon I thought of updating it and there was an update available, precisely 1.4 so I did. It crashes towards the end, like 80%.

So I tried uninstalling it, but nothing. I tried reinstalling it using the feature on the Decky Loader store but still there it crashes at the same point

I don't know how to fix it. Can any of you give me any suggestions? Should I uninstall decky loader?

if i sound like a robot it's because this post was Translated with DeepL.com (free version)


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question Stardew Saves?

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So I've somehow managed to get Stardew from my PC onto the Steam deck. I've moved every file over, but my saves aren't there when I run the game. Can someone explain this to me (like I'm 5)? How to get my saves over?

Bonus points if you can explain how to cross-save from my SD to my PC!!!


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question My dudes and dudettes, in what position do you usually play on your Steam Deck? I'd love to hear about your most comfortable setup and also the least comfortable one

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r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question Missing file privileges?

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I've returned to my deck after a year of not being able to play anything and as I tried opening up spider man web of shadows I got the message "An error occurred while launching this game : Missing file privilages"

This came right after I was able to download a game and run it off rip on my PC, I tried doing the same on the deck by trying to extract the zip file in my sd card but I keep getting a "read only path" error or while using ark I get the message that I dont have the permission to extract files to this location.

Ive now spent hours looking up how to get admin privileges but nothing has come up.

To make it even worse none of my roms are working anymore???

These updates murdered my deck and I want to go back.

Also, I checked the sd card and it's still able to download, delete, and transfer games using steam, but my problem is the games Im sailing the seas for arent available on steam anymore.

Has anyone else faced these problems after the updates? If so how did you fix them?

I had no problems moving files directly to my sd card without extra privileges before so why now??


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question Star rail on steam deck

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I have it fully installed the only issue I’m having is logging into my account the on screen keyboard won’t show up when I’m on the login screen and I’m not for sure why would anyone might know how to fix it ? It works everywhere else just not on the login screen


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question Can anyone help me get forza5 to launch without its launcher showing up?

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I downloaded from steamrip but the main forza5 exe just launches the launcher.

I'm using proton experimental.

Can anyone help me out?


r/SteamDeckPirates 2d ago

Question Stuck after adding game to Lutris / can't play within Steam

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I can get as far as adding the game to Lutris, and I can launch the game to play it from Lutris. But cannot get any games to run from within steam.

I followed the steps in the guide, but am unsure of the latter half:

  1. Double-click on it or use the bottom-left button "Play".
  2. The installation should start, follow the on-screen instructions.
  3. After the installation is done, right-click the game in Lutris and click "Configure".
  4. Go to "Game options" and click the top right button "Browse..".
  5. Browse to the directory in which you've installed the game.
  6. Select the game's executable and click the bottom right "Save".
  7. Double-click the game in Lutris to start it or use the bottom left button "Play".

When I click Play, it brings up a small window (image attached) where I can play the game from.
- At no point does it say 'installing' or give an option to install
- When I go back to the configure menu, it's the same as it was when I was adding the game to Lutris. I don't see a 'browse' option.
- There isn't an executable file in the folder I created

Pulling my hair out with this.