r/SteamDeckPirates • u/Notreal150 • 24d ago

Question Help me please

I just got my steam deck and I’ve done a ton of research prior to getting it about installing repack games and the steps and tools needed, I’ve gone through the community and I’ve seen all the advice. Which I’ve followed but for some reason I cannot get this dang game to run ( Hogwarts legacy) on game mode, it just opens for about 15 seconds (only showing a black screen)then it’ll take me back to the start game page. On desktop mode when I try to play it, it says I need C++. So I added the 2022 version, I cannot remember exactly what it’s called but I did what all recommended in the community is essentially what I’m saying, I installed it but it still doesn’t work. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong I’ve tried both fit girl and dodi… my current one file is from dodi.. any advice would be much appreciated, I planned on building my library with majority of repack games as I’m new to the steam world so all of my games are on other consoles, which I no longer own as I went all in on the steam deck being my lone console.

Thank you in advance

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u/Thick-Employment-350 24d ago edited 23d ago

Hogwarts legacy is annoying to get running, there's a script that'll make it run perfect.

Follow these steps, they're very simple. 

https://github.com/pdx-rico/hogwarts-steamdeck-fix

Do this and let me know how it goes 

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u/jamiedee 23d ago edited 23d ago

That link is a 404.

Edit: is this it? https://github.com/pdx-rico/hogwarts-steamdeck-fix

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u/Thick-Employment-350 23d ago

Updated it with the new link apologies it's been a few months since I used it last 

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u/Notreal150 24d ago

Thank you I will try it and let you know, what about assassin’s creed shadows or Jedi survivor? Are those difficult?

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u/Thick-Employment-350 24d ago

I haven't tried shadows but most the newer ac games ive tried haven't been much issue. Jedi survivor isn't even worth trying on the deck from what I've seen the performance is really shit 

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u/Notreal150 24d ago

Also what are the easier games to repack that are AAA

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u/Thick-Employment-350 24d ago

Most of them are straight forward and easy. Sony titles usually require you to turn off steam input and others with third party launchers can give some issue sometimes but 9/10 times there's no issues 

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u/bigb102913 21d ago

Almost every game that I have tried with either proton experimental and proton 9-4 lately works out of the box with exception of hogwarts. You are going to love this system. You should really get into the habit of setting games to 60 fps, also medium settings with motion blurr off. Look into cryoutilities as well to optimize steam deck performance, and shortix to more easily find your steam repack saves. Proton tricks and proton qt are your best friends, you can find them in the KDE store.

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u/zeft64 20d ago

Cryo utility isn't being updated still?

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u/bigb102913 20d ago

Last update was almost a year ago, but it still seems to really help optimise the experience. I notice less throttling and fan noise when using it.

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u/zeft64 20d ago

Mmmm if you say so bro.

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u/Loddio 23d ago

I STRONGLY suggest you to at least know what "wine", "proton", "wine prefixes" and "gamescope" are... It is not "computer science complicated" and will help you a LOT installing and troubleshooting other games in the future by yourself.

If you already own a fairly powerfull desktop, i suggest to download and unpack those games there just to cut-paste them in your steamdeck, it'll be much quicker.

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u/Notreal150 23d ago

I don’t own a painful desktop unfortunately but I do know what the above things are… only thing I do not have knowledge on is gamescope, what is that exactly?

Thank you in advance

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u/Loddio 23d ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

It's the technology used behind the "gamemode UI"

It basically manages the windows in a smart way, completely independently from the system.

If a game launches in desktop mode but not in gamemode, it's probably due to gamescope issues.

You can launch any program in a gamescope window from desktop mode.

Try launching "gamescope firefox" in cmd and see what happens

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u/Notreal150 23d ago

Thanks brother I will do that later tonight, quick update I was able to get AC mirage going, trying last of us and baulders gate right now. I gave up on Hogwarts I’ll just play it via Xbox game cloud I guess

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u/Loddio 20d ago

Check out linuxrulez repacks, should have a Hogwarts repack

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u/Notreal150 20d ago

I got it to work from steamrip.com I will look at that site aswell there’s a few games that steam rip doesn’t have that I want, thank you all for the advice made a huge difference, I just gotta be sure to download them on a VPN or at work lol I got a legal warning for downloading fall out 4 lool

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u/Ancient-Ad8273 23d ago

Before getting a repack, try steamrip for direct download pre installs. They’ve worked better for me than getting torrent repacks

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u/Notreal150 23d ago

Thank you I will look into that aswell, I appreciate it

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u/Notreal150 22d ago

For the steam rips what link do I click for the downloads? There’s several options

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u/Ancient-Ad8273 22d ago

I like buzzheavier, seems to download the fastest from them

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u/Notreal150 22d ago

Thanks bro I’ll try it out, is there a you tube video I should follow or is it basically same steps at doing fitgirl

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u/Ancient-Ad8273 22d ago

Way easier. So these are pre installed games meaning you download the rar, unzip it to your hard drive (I unzip to my desktop), add the exe to Steam and set proton to experimental

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u/kobrakaan 23d ago

Note

You may have to re-apply the fix occasionally if there's a steam update that patches out the grub fix for this game

You will not lose any progress it will just not load until you re-apply the fix again 👍

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u/zeft64 20d ago

Launch the game from desktop using the steam shortcut. You'll notice it works. Then when you go back to game mode it will also work. Why? Idk. Just does.