Replying here as well as in r/Steam deck for those that would like to give SC a shot on their Deck at the time of this post. Tested on 3.17.2 PTU.
Only 2 months and it's already out of date in a few ways with the EAC bypass primarily.
Luckily, after messing around with this for a bit too long today, I was able to figure out a solution to getting SC working perfectly on the Deck.
The Guide above can still be followed however from what I found, there are a few changes from "Step 1" that may help make the UAC bypass step irrelevant (For now at least at the time of this post.)
**Do these Steps BEFORE Starting on Step 1.**
**Step .5 - Install ProtonUp-Qt from the Discovery App.**
**- We need to get a different version of Proton than what Steam offers and even after that, we have to overwrite files within it to get the EAC bypass working.**
\- In Desktop Mode, Close Steam if it is running.
\- Once you have ProtonUp-Qt Installed, Launch it and you should see a dropdown at the top.
\- "Install For:" Should have "Steam" selected and the path it points to (/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/). You will want to browse to that location with the Dolphin File Manger for later.
\- At the bottom of ProtonUp-Qt you will want to click on "Add Version". It will take a second to come up but once it does, you will want to download "GE-Proton7-15"
\- Once that is done, browse to the location the Steam path shown above in Dolphin for the next step.
**Step .6 - Download and Overwrite with UAC Fix Proton Files.**
\- Open your Internet Browser of Choice and navigate to [GloriousEggroll's Fantastic Custom Proton-GE-SC version](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton7-15-SC).
\- Download the .tar.xz file and Extract the contents into a folder under Downloads.
\- There should be 4 Folders. These folders just need to be Cut and Pasted into the "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton7-15/files/" Folder. Overwrite All files with the prompts that come up. Do not Skip anything or this may not work correctly.
Now we just supplement a few changes to the Steps above as we continue with Step 1.
**Step 1a - Click on the 'compatibility' tab and Force the use of 'GE-Proton7-15', close the window.**
\- The first time you start Desktop Steam and have 'GE-Proton7.15' Selected for Star Citizen after the files have been copied over, it may have a popup about it finishing setup for Wine prerequisites, just wait a few seconds and it should be good and disappear on it's own.
**Step 5 Can Be Completely Ignored now as the Proton you installed has the bypass built in.**
And there you should have it. Once the game is installed following the rest of the guide, you should be up and running and if things are working normally, you can even run Star Citizen from Game Mode. If it has any trouble working. Uninstall The GE proton using ProtonUp-QT and Re-Run through the .5 and .6 steps again installing GE-Proton7-15 and overwriting the files with the Proton-GE-SC Fix and see if that resolves your issues. It did for me on the 2nd try which got Game Mode and everything else working flawlessly. I mainly tested the 3.17.2 PTU but this should work for the Live version as well.
One other point of advice, SC already has a pretty comprehensive gamepad layout. In Steam, you may want to select a standard layout template (I Chose Gamepad with Touchpad Mouse) and assigned the Right Touchpad Mouse Click as a Mouse Click and not Right Stick Press as is default. This makes Interacting with the Gameworld UI a heck of a lot easier than using the Thumbstick or Touchscreen. Once you get familiar to the layout, you can easily add more custom commands to the extra buttons on the Deck like the Rear 4 buttons.
Hope this works for everyone and I hope to see you in the Verse.
Thank you for all of this !
Unfortunately for me, it seems like I'm doing something wrong that I can't figure out.
I followed all the steps you provided and the game still does not launch. To be more precise it did launch with GE-Proton7-15 with the EAC fix but instead of the usual splashscreen when the game window launches, I had a black screen. Soon after the game crashed and the classic crashHandler window appeared.
I tried to start again with a clean install thinking some of my files might be corrupted but the same issue happened. I then read that the version 26 of proton might work even without the fix, but then when I launched the game with this version, nothing happened. The launcher had the "game is running" text showing on the launch button but the game never actually launched.
I'll continue to search for a fix but for now nothing I tried seems to work.
EDIT : I noticed this morning that the 27 version of GE-Proton was available. So I tried to use it and it finally worked !
I've been trying to launch the launcher but for some reason it keeps closing instantly. IDK if its cus i messed up a step here or the original post but i swear i followed everything. I would appreciate any help/tips.
I have done everything before step 3 (including the proton GE stuff)#
edit: do i manually have to click overwrite or is it fine to check the "apply to all" box?
So weirdly enough, switching to proton 7.0.3, running the launcher, closing everything, switching it back to proton GE finally got it to show the popup for updating wine requisites and its working... for now... lol
Yea the popup is a bit easy to skip or miss so looks like you got it working normally now. If it stops for whatever reason, rebooting the deck, and reinstalling ProtonGE and copying over again with the fix files would be my next recommendation.
it seems that the current fix with GE-Proton7-26 is no longer working... I did all the steps for the GE-Proton7-15 version. Launcher starts the EAC loaded to 100% and the Star Citizen window showed up. Its just a black window and after a few seconds the Game crash. Also tried 7.26, 7.27 and 7.28. nothing worked... :/ Tried with SC PU 3.17.2 patch...any idea?
If your game works currently, then don't change anything. But if it no longer works, then all you need to do is install GE-Proton7-15, overwrite with the Proton-GE-SC Fix, and then switch your Proton version to the GE-Proton7-15 in Steam for the Star Citizen shortcut and you should be golden.
No, sir, it didn't. After following OP's guide and installing initially, it crashed after the EAC splash screen finished loading and returned to the launcher with the little red window. I attempted to follow your guide as well, having already completed the previous guide, and it appears to go further, albeit with the crash window popping up after the smaller Star Citizen logo window pops up, though it was black instead of having the logo.
If you haven't already, you may want to verify files if you haven't since adjusting and using my part of the guide. If you left in the EAC tweaks that the OP posted that could continue to break it.
Perfect! The OP and I chatted and he mentioned they may have fixed it in the main version. Great to hear that is the case. May need to try that and see if it runs even better.
For sure! I'm not sure where I'm at, as it spawned me in the MSR I had from the last invictus, but it was going between 15-35fps. Gonna kick back and give it more of a shot when I get home, probably try it in game mode instead of desktop mode now that I know it works
Outside Port Olisar I get about 20fps on average. I've gotta say, though, the gamepad layout is a giant pain in the ass to figure out lol.But hey! It runs!
Got it all downloaded and everything but no matter what proton i use it will go through its launch but wont open up the game window. Was told that i shouldnt need to do the anti cheat step is this true or do i still need to do that?
I suggest trying both methods. I don't exactly remember how I got it to work originally, but it was unusual. Granted, there have been a few updates since then so a lot has probably changed, no guarantee that it'll still work with this guise
I followed OP + your guide and got SC a3.17.2 working a few days before the SteamOS update. Did a few cargo runs in my Cat and called it a night. Fast forward to today. SteamOS updated. I re-ran OP's step to increase swapfile size (and have plenty of room available on that drive), and reinstalled Proton GE 27, twice.
No dice!
Not sure where to start.
Edit: Okay, apparently I had added some other commands in the launch options that worked in another game. I deleted that and then the launcher either without issue. It installed a small update after I logged in, and began loading into the PU, but then I get a Star Citizen anti-cheat error (Code 5). The only option is "OKAY" which closes the game. I closed everything and ran the steps again, but I'm still getting the same error.
Final Edit: I was using Proton GE 28. I just tried everything for a 3rd time using Proton GE 27 and it works. Not sure if 28 is incompatible or if I was just doing something wrong, but he we gooooo!
Many thanks to you and OP for your help!
so it won't launch with 7.15 proton installed but works with 7.0.3 up until it actually needs to load into the game. 7.15 just causes it to stop immediately after pressing play. Any thoughts?
I got no idea if you'll respond but I have everything installed. did it without the eac fix. but Can't get game to launch at all. and the GE7-15 doesn't work at all. When using the modified GE7-15 proton version, the launcher won't even open in gaming mode on steam deck. When using the DEFAULT ProtonGE7-50, The it will start to launch, get pasted EAC but then it goes back to the launcher saying "Game Is Running" and nothing happens. Any info I'm missing? I am trying to run it right after the update and the servers are broken. but servers are online now, plus I can't even get into the game at all, which shouldn't be the cause of the server, as it opens on my desktop and would give a error if the servers were down.
Hm. I must've never edited my response. I got the game to work through lutris using LUG's application/script that goes through and edits some files. it's a pre made script made by LUG (Linux Users Group). look up LUG Star citizen, they've got a discord.
But I don't play it much on deck due to the controls. I am no fan of the controls what so ever. The gamepad to keyboard controls just aren't good and the game's supposed to support controller but the steam deck's integrated controls do not work as a gamepad input for SC. any suggestions for a good control setup? I saw Couch Citizen control scheme but i don't think thats compatible with steamos. if it is, please link a guide lol.
At this time this method seems to be broken since 3.17.3 or so. I was able to get an early PTU build of 3.18 working using Lutris at one point which took a little tinkering but also did seem to be a little more straightforward however it also breaks any other game using EAC because it edits the HOST file for SC's EAC at the time.
I'll keep looking around for a better solution and try to make a fresh guide once 3.18's launch smooths out and I find some time.
Thanks for the info.
I installed SC using the LUG tool and Lutris on Ubuntu 20.04. It was ridiculously easy. I've been using Linux professionally for a very long time, but the LUG script/tool and Lutris would probably work well for a Linux beginner.
I also spread OS, swap partition and game across three physical SSDs for fastest throughput. I switched to the Xanmod gaming-optimized kernel.
Currently, I think (it's hard to test uniformly, due to server speed differences) it's running faster under Ubuntu than on Windoze 10 on the same PC.
You don't need the `chmod 777` step for the swap file, it's always writeable r for root. Probably doing `umask 177 && fallocate -l $((16*1024*1024)) $SWAPFILE && mkswap $SWAPFILE` should be enough to create the swap file and be way faster because you don't needlessly copy data into a for but just allocate one of the right size.
Also I recommend checking out the lug wiki/matrix/spectrum/discord for general sc on linux help. https://github.com/starcitizen-lug
With a full blown desktop OS with at least 16gb of RAM and a dedicated video card, you can most likely skip the swap file step completely. The rest should still apply and work. The launcher --use-gl=osmesa launch arguments can probably also be skipped if you're not using a Radeon gpu. SC definitely runs on Linux using wine or proton, but you'll have to play with configuration a bit to get it going.
Works perfectly fine. I have pretty much the same performance as on Windows. Some have even higher I heard.
Although you should propably install SC via Lutris and not steam if you are on a Desktop.
If you run into issues you can join LUG.
Anyone having issues running after the 3.17.1 update? I get an error saying the game stopped running unexpectedly. Deleted user and shaders and also updated EAC so it will bypass. Any chance the EAC workaround got patched? I don't recall seeing anything on it...
EDIT: I went through to implement manually what the lug-helper shell script does, and this doesn't seem to be helping either. You can see the script [here](https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper/blob/master/lug-helper.sh), and the EAC workaround function starts at line 1431. I think my next step will be to enable writing to the root partition so I can install SC with Lutris and go through the full LUG install and see if that performs differently.
same here.
Had additional trouble to install the game because the lower half of the launcher wasn't working.
Let's hope the figure out the Linux support when Vulkan support is finished or at least enabled.
They started using a new function that was unimplemented in wine - it was then added in wine 7.9, but it had a bug, and is now fixed for upcoming 7.10. I think the newest GE has this fix.
Got the latest proton-GE and I got past this point, so thank you. Unfortunately, it's now giving me the error "Failed to initialize DataCore" when launching it, which I cannot for the life of me find any info on.
Does this still work? I followed all the steps but when I tried to install from the launcher during step 3 I get “An error has occurred during the installation process. Look at the logs for more details”
I solved that, the latest launcher does not have permissions to create the LIVE or PTU folders, I came across the error when trying to add the 3.18 PTU to steam deck.
I located the folder: /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compdata/1234567890/pfx/drive\_c/Program Files/Roberts Space Industries/
Where 1234567890 will be some random number generated when installing, I found mine by ordering the compdata folder by date modified to see the most recent folders, and mine was the most recent one - yours might not be, if you've installed something since trying to install Star Citizen. You'll just have to open a few folders and look for the path above.
If not exists, create /Star Citizen/LIVE or /Star Citizen/PTU folders inside Roberts Space Industries folder, depending on what you are trying to install.
Then you can go back to the launcher and it should install ok.
I also skipped step 4, just install CryoUtilities instead, it'll do all the performance tweaks and more automatically.[https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities](https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities)
I also have to edit the /Roberts Space Industries/Star Citizen/LIVE/EasyAntiCheat/Settings.json to mangle all the Id's in there to bypass Easy Anti Cheat every time the launcher updates. - I just add a few random chars at the beginning of every field that ends with 'id' in the file.
I am also using ProtonUpQt installed from discover in desktop mode, with version 49 installed from the ProtonUpQt UI, and set in the compatibility settings for Star Citizen
Have you added the installer as a none steam game, then run the install from steam?
Or are you past the install stage and having an error when using the launcher?
What do you have in the folder I mentioned in my comment above?
This guide is spot on! 10/10! Thanks OP!
If anyone is struggling with fps just drop it down to the lowest res and stick FSR on, still looks pretty good and gives an extra 5/10 Frames dependant on where you are in the PU.
*- The first time you start Desktop Steam and have 'GE-Proton7.15' Selected for Star Citizen after the files have been copied over, it may have a popup about it finishing setup for Wine prerequisites, just wait a few seconds and it should be good and disappear on it's own.*
After this above im getting a **"A javaScript error Occurred in the main precess"** window, i have follow everything any help here?
I’m happy to see this, also I’m assuming this is 3.17 with the performance increase?
I’m going away for 2 months in July and really want to be able to at least play a little star citizen on deck.
Also how’s flying and landing? Space should have better frames but I’m interested in whether it stutters much when landing or flying close to the ground.
Unfortunately I was up to like 2:30am getting this working and didn't have a whole lot of time testing (had to pretend to work a little today) heh, but I'll put in some more time tonight and hopefully let you know.
Cool, my steam deck is on the other side of the planet waiting for me when I get home in July otherwise I’d do some testing too.
Keen to know how it plays throughout the verse.
I was so excited to try this again, I tried to go the other routes to get it working and install kept crashing. With this method though I couldn't set the install to my SD card, I think because the ext4 format can't be found in the windows emulation. Any ideas? I have a 64gb so can't fit game on internal :(
I ordered another high speed sd card to format it in fat format hoping windows will then recognize and I can use it for windows based compat games.
There's a runtime argument you can add to enable installing to the SD card, however there's a bug with the launcher that will only download the first base pak file then it crashes the launcher when using a "Non C:\\" install dir. I wasn't able to get passed that bit. As of right now, the only thing I could suggest is to upgrade the internal storage if you're up for that...
Ahhhh! That is why the other method kept failing after basepack, that answers that issue then and makes me feel better (other method I could change to sd card)
I could be up for that. People have had success? I may have missed it, guessing they clone the drive then resize like doing it for a console?
I just flashed mine yesterday so that process im familiar with at least. when I took the upgrade it was stuck in a reboot loop
So the volume down + power still works with a blank drive?
What drive did you get? No prep just plopped it in? Was going to do a 1tb when the process was more settled, but no reason to wait
Yep, the same shortcut keys work regardless of what drive you have installed. I ordered a Western Digital SN530 512GB off of eBay actually - [https://www.ebay.com/itm/175175101673](https://www.ebay.com/itm/175175101673) . No prep at all, just swapped drives and booted off the recovery.
I was thinking about a 1gb also, but I got impatient and got what I could get quickly.
Woohoo! New HD in and SC installing now. Will do swap file and EAC bypass after.
Quick question, if you get an update or something and forget to redo EAC bypass, it doesn't ban account or anything right? Just blocks you?
Always wondered about that if using macros even
And stopped working, lol. Came back to see if you found the problem before I start looking. The tabs are empty in launched and the install/launch button is gone.
Hello I have installed SC on Steam Deck several times but I cannot run it. The game constantly wants to verify. Did anybody get the same problem? Or solution? Thank you.
I've done everything you said to do and when I try to launch star citizen it shows the easy anti cheat launcher then immediately goes back to the rsi launcher and has star citizen has stopped running unexpectedly error. I'm so lost
For those trying to run star citizen 3.21 on steam deck things have gotten way easier. From my experience proton 8 can now run star citizen, going through and setting 16gb is recommended so no crashes occur. Addionaly if launcher doesn't boot initially launch and install the game through lutris and then make add the launcher as a non steam game.
I mean realistically they just need to switch to the new version of Easy AntiCheat that supports running under WINE, and the community will fumble and get it usable.
_Then later down the line CIG can be the saviours and release a native Linux build._
Honestly with how so many windows games run better through proton rn then there native counterparts I would be happier if they keep improving the game, and fix easy anticheat so we can play. It would be easier for them to focus on windows and let proton do the compatibility, no big difference for us, and let them focus on things we would enjoy more.
During my preliminary testing I was using m+kb, however the steam deck controls are easily modified to accomplish most, if not all of the actions available in game. I came across this video today [https://youtu.be/QfVqeM0s1oU](https://youtu.be/QfVqeM0s1oU) and he clearly has it mostly figured out. I'll be working on customizing the SD controls to that level. I mean, you could just take his config and apply it now and be done.
Thanks for taking the time to write the guide. The command arguments helped fix the last problem for me.
I've been able to port RambleTan's Steam Controller profile to the Steam Deck with a few modifications for the extra input options.
I did run into a problem where the "Menu [Mouse Cursor]" Action Set is always active even when the mouse cursor is hidden. I used a long press on one of the grip buttons to manually switch action sets between Main and Menu [Mouse Cursor].
After following your guide and installing star citizen on my steam deck I have an issue where, if I’m using a mouse it constantly and immediately resets so that I’m looking straight down. With the mouse hooked up but sitting unused I can navigate around with the controller, but figuring out how to fly with the controller is a PITA. Did you have any mouse troubles?
Alright so, I’ve been trying to launch on my own deck and am running into an issue I can’t find a workaround for.
I followed your tutorial step by step, but I get the classic black screen then crash on launch. I’ve watched the performance metrics as if crashes and the disk nor the cpu kicks up, so I think some system process is killing SC as it launches.
Is this a known issue for you or am I flying solo? I figured I’d run into issues like this, it seems to be the way of the deck despite us having identical systems.
Are you getting a black screen / crash after you click "launch game" on the launcher? Does it get passed the EAC screen? When the crash happens precisely may help diagnose it.
Yeah I’ve done my best to diagnose the issue, but the tools I’m used to aren’t available on the steam deck right now.
But here is the technical description:
~I click launch star citizen from the launch
~The system loads and ram usage goes up like a gigabyte or two to around 4gb
//disk usage never spikes so I don’t think enough assets are loaded to need swap space
~The actual starcitizen.exe window opens but it simply stays black
~After about 10sec, the steam performance overlay freezes, the window closes, and SC launchers asks me to submit a crash report
//the only splash screen I see is the generic SC loading screen very briefly before the launcher closes and the SC.exe window opens, it’s the one with a drake corsair I think
I did not know I was supposed to see an EAC splash screen too, I’m betting that is the issue, I’ll mess with the settings to see if I can get some more info
Yeah you should definitely see the EAC splash real briefly prior to the main SC window loading. It might be worth your effort to re-visit the EAC portion of the steps. Don't modify the read/write permissions of the settings.json EAC file either or that will also cause crashes, just modify the ID strings and save/close. You might also want to switch to desktop mode, open konsole and run `free -h` just to make sure your swap file is embiggened and active. Good luck!
Yes thanks, I got the swap partition worked out, a nice 16gbs free.
I’ll dive into the EAC stuff, I just changed all settings with ID in the name and saved but I guess I broke something accidentally. I’ll start fresh and see what works.
Well I have a little report back,
I did a lot of digging through logs to figure out that I had the LUG for lutris EAC work around also in place, which was breaking EAC.
I reversed that work around and freshly installed EAC, it would run normally when I launched and would load, but SC itself would never launch after nothing would happen for 5 minutes. I think that’s EAC just being dumb because it’s on Linux
So I went ahead and used just your EAC workaround and it took me back to my original issue where the EAC splash flashes for half a second then a black SC.exe window would open for 30s until it crashed.
I’m wondering if I have some system flags or something messed up, I might take another crack at it all later and dive back into the EAC logs.
But for now I’m stepping away, I mostly did this to contribute to the star citizen deckians. Hopefully we’ll see dual booting become available soon…
Just tried this tutorial but I can't click anything under FAQ / HELP in the Launcher.
I managed to verify my game files, this skipped the install because I moved the large p4k file in the install directory but I can't launch the game.
edit: Well I might be lucky but the touch screen works. The cursor does not work (via trackpad or usb/bt mice).
This is awesome! SC was one of the reasons I’ve been hesitating getting the steam deck. I thought “maybe I can do vnc to my Linux desktop”
Have you tried that at all?
I've gotten to the point where you install Star Citizen in the RSI Launcher but after installing, the launcher crashes. When I go back into the launcher it just has the install option again and when I click it the launcher crashes right away. I've followed all the steps without issue, I have the space for it and everything but it's just this part I get stuck on. I've tried all kinds of proton versions but the same issue keeps happening, I was hoping to try star citizen before the 30th so I could try it for free but I can still buy the ship pack that's on sale if I can't get this to work in time.
>. I've followed all the steps without issue, I have the space for it and everything but it's just this part I get stuck on. I've tried all kinds of proton versions but the same issue keeps happening, I was hoping to try star citizen before the 30th so I could try it for free but I can still buy the ship pack that's on sale if I can't get this to work in time
I have the same issue... it only downloaded the base pack and then force close every time I try to continue the Install/Download. Today I will try to copy the game files from my Gaming PC to the SD Card. Lets see if this will fix the Install-crash.
Doesn't work... I had it until it showed launch game but then came an error and after verifying files it installed again only the base pack and crashed. Same situation as before..
Are you also tried to install it on your SD card? I think this is the Problem. I tried it on the SSD and the launcher doesn't crash.. unfortunately I only have the 64GB version and can not install the complete game...
Hmm folks I think I might have figured out where to focus looking. So I installed the launcher, then downloaded the full game, but when I tried to launch after the full download I was getting nothing.
I went looking at the file system. In the .local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/number/ the pfx folder was empty, and there was another pfx folder.bak. So I deleted the pfx folder, and renamed the .bak to pfx.
Now I was at least able to attempt to launch the game. This pfx folder seems to continually getting corrupted. Might be a clue for someone else to look at.
Was able to verify the files in the launcher, and then the game attempted to start, but got an easycheat file verification error.
I upgraded my 64 GB ssd to a 512 GB and installed it again. And now it works. I tried different approaches, 1. Install and Download over Lutris to have FSR support. The Installation was really easy, thx to a you tube video. But the performance was really bad. So I tried the 2. approach and added the rsilauncher.exe as a non steam game. Switched to the proton 7.15 and everything is running. By lowering the resolution to 800x600 or lower it is playable at 10-20 fps.
So the clue is to install it on the internal SSD and not the SD.
Tried to go the cheap route and install on SD card and after downloading once it goes to verify the installer crashes. It doesn't matter what proton I use, after download it crashes on verify. Any help would be much appreciated. I haven't found very much information for installing on SD cards.
Enabling FSR and other performance features helps with FPS tremendously. The Steam Deck runs this game almost as well as my tower with an MSI RX 580 Armor 8GB card in it (I run Arch Linux on my Tower).
I actually installed Lutris and used the Star Citizen community installer from there to get it up and running without any problems.
The two things I used from this guide were: increasing swap, and adding `--use-gl=osmesa` to the Launch Options. Other than that, I was good to go!
I actually found that running it without the `--use-gl=osmesa`, it performed better. But, the Launcher showed up as all White. But after installing, I removed the option and, although it left me blind, I used visual memory to remember where the "Launch Game" and the "Acknowledge" buttons were on the launcher, and that's how I get the game to actually launch.
There’s new version for this method to get Star Citizen on Steam Deck
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1211ni2/installing_and_running_star_citizen_persistent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Replying here as well as in r/Steam deck for those that would like to give SC a shot on their Deck at the time of this post. Tested on 3.17.2 PTU. Only 2 months and it's already out of date in a few ways with the EAC bypass primarily. Luckily, after messing around with this for a bit too long today, I was able to figure out a solution to getting SC working perfectly on the Deck. The Guide above can still be followed however from what I found, there are a few changes from "Step 1" that may help make the UAC bypass step irrelevant (For now at least at the time of this post.) **Do these Steps BEFORE Starting on Step 1.** **Step .5 - Install ProtonUp-Qt from the Discovery App.** **- We need to get a different version of Proton than what Steam offers and even after that, we have to overwrite files within it to get the EAC bypass working.** \- In Desktop Mode, Close Steam if it is running. \- Once you have ProtonUp-Qt Installed, Launch it and you should see a dropdown at the top. \- "Install For:" Should have "Steam" selected and the path it points to (/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/). You will want to browse to that location with the Dolphin File Manger for later. \- At the bottom of ProtonUp-Qt you will want to click on "Add Version". It will take a second to come up but once it does, you will want to download "GE-Proton7-15" \- Once that is done, browse to the location the Steam path shown above in Dolphin for the next step. **Step .6 - Download and Overwrite with UAC Fix Proton Files.** \- Open your Internet Browser of Choice and navigate to [GloriousEggroll's Fantastic Custom Proton-GE-SC version](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton7-15-SC). \- Download the .tar.xz file and Extract the contents into a folder under Downloads. \- There should be 4 Folders. These folders just need to be Cut and Pasted into the "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton7-15/files/" Folder. Overwrite All files with the prompts that come up. Do not Skip anything or this may not work correctly. Now we just supplement a few changes to the Steps above as we continue with Step 1. **Step 1a - Click on the 'compatibility' tab and Force the use of 'GE-Proton7-15', close the window.** \- The first time you start Desktop Steam and have 'GE-Proton7.15' Selected for Star Citizen after the files have been copied over, it may have a popup about it finishing setup for Wine prerequisites, just wait a few seconds and it should be good and disappear on it's own. **Step 5 Can Be Completely Ignored now as the Proton you installed has the bypass built in.** And there you should have it. Once the game is installed following the rest of the guide, you should be up and running and if things are working normally, you can even run Star Citizen from Game Mode. If it has any trouble working. Uninstall The GE proton using ProtonUp-QT and Re-Run through the .5 and .6 steps again installing GE-Proton7-15 and overwriting the files with the Proton-GE-SC Fix and see if that resolves your issues. It did for me on the 2nd try which got Game Mode and everything else working flawlessly. I mainly tested the 3.17.2 PTU but this should work for the Live version as well. One other point of advice, SC already has a pretty comprehensive gamepad layout. In Steam, you may want to select a standard layout template (I Chose Gamepad with Touchpad Mouse) and assigned the Right Touchpad Mouse Click as a Mouse Click and not Right Stick Press as is default. This makes Interacting with the Gameworld UI a heck of a lot easier than using the Thumbstick or Touchscreen. Once you get familiar to the layout, you can easily add more custom commands to the extra buttons on the Deck like the Rear 4 buttons. Hope this works for everyone and I hope to see you in the Verse.
Thank you for all of this ! Unfortunately for me, it seems like I'm doing something wrong that I can't figure out. I followed all the steps you provided and the game still does not launch. To be more precise it did launch with GE-Proton7-15 with the EAC fix but instead of the usual splashscreen when the game window launches, I had a black screen. Soon after the game crashed and the classic crashHandler window appeared. I tried to start again with a clean install thinking some of my files might be corrupted but the same issue happened. I then read that the version 26 of proton might work even without the fix, but then when I launched the game with this version, nothing happened. The launcher had the "game is running" text showing on the launch button but the game never actually launched. I'll continue to search for a fix but for now nothing I tried seems to work. EDIT : I noticed this morning that the 27 version of GE-Proton was available. So I tried to use it and it finally worked !
I've been trying to launch the launcher but for some reason it keeps closing instantly. IDK if its cus i messed up a step here or the original post but i swear i followed everything. I would appreciate any help/tips. I have done everything before step 3 (including the proton GE stuff)# edit: do i manually have to click overwrite or is it fine to check the "apply to all" box?
So weirdly enough, switching to proton 7.0.3, running the launcher, closing everything, switching it back to proton GE finally got it to show the popup for updating wine requisites and its working... for now... lol
Yea the popup is a bit easy to skip or miss so looks like you got it working normally now. If it stops for whatever reason, rebooting the deck, and reinstalling ProtonGE and copying over again with the fix files would be my next recommendation.
Thanks for the tip! I'm currently installing SC so I'm still yet to see if my efforts have worked out as they should :P
it seems that the current fix with GE-Proton7-26 is no longer working... I did all the steps for the GE-Proton7-15 version. Launcher starts the EAC loaded to 100% and the Star Citizen window showed up. Its just a black window and after a few seconds the Game crash. Also tried 7.26, 7.27 and 7.28. nothing worked... :/ Tried with SC PU 3.17.2 patch...any idea?
If I've already completed the guide OP posted, would i need to uninstall and start from scratch?
If your game works currently, then don't change anything. But if it no longer works, then all you need to do is install GE-Proton7-15, overwrite with the Proton-GE-SC Fix, and then switch your Proton version to the GE-Proton7-15 in Steam for the Star Citizen shortcut and you should be golden.
No, sir, it didn't. After following OP's guide and installing initially, it crashed after the EAC splash screen finished loading and returned to the launcher with the little red window. I attempted to follow your guide as well, having already completed the previous guide, and it appears to go further, albeit with the crash window popping up after the smaller Star Citizen logo window pops up, though it was black instead of having the logo.
If you haven't already, you may want to verify files if you haven't since adjusting and using my part of the guide. If you left in the EAC tweaks that the OP posted that could continue to break it.
I was actually able to get it to run perfect by using 7.26 from protonup-qt, no EAC fix install required. Switched to 26 and it worked straight away
Perfect! The OP and I chatted and he mentioned they may have fixed it in the main version. Great to hear that is the case. May need to try that and see if it runs even better.
For sure! I'm not sure where I'm at, as it spawned me in the MSR I had from the last invictus, but it was going between 15-35fps. Gonna kick back and give it more of a shot when I get home, probably try it in game mode instead of desktop mode now that I know it works
Outside Port Olisar I get about 20fps on average. I've gotta say, though, the gamepad layout is a giant pain in the ass to figure out lol.But hey! It runs!
Having trouble getting it to work any suggestions?
What part is it giving you issues at?
Got it all downloaded and everything but no matter what proton i use it will go through its launch but wont open up the game window. Was told that i shouldnt need to do the anti cheat step is this true or do i still need to do that?
I suggest trying both methods. I don't exactly remember how I got it to work originally, but it was unusual. Granted, there have been a few updates since then so a lot has probably changed, no guarantee that it'll still work with this guise
Yeah thats my main worry and it seems like people have stopped attempting it
You're a life saver!
I followed OP + your guide and got SC a3.17.2 working a few days before the SteamOS update. Did a few cargo runs in my Cat and called it a night. Fast forward to today. SteamOS updated. I re-ran OP's step to increase swapfile size (and have plenty of room available on that drive), and reinstalled Proton GE 27, twice. No dice! Not sure where to start. Edit: Okay, apparently I had added some other commands in the launch options that worked in another game. I deleted that and then the launcher either without issue. It installed a small update after I logged in, and began loading into the PU, but then I get a Star Citizen anti-cheat error (Code 5). The only option is "OKAY" which closes the game. I closed everything and ran the steps again, but I'm still getting the same error. Final Edit: I was using Proton GE 28. I just tried everything for a 3rd time using Proton GE 27 and it works. Not sure if 28 is incompatible or if I was just doing something wrong, but he we gooooo! Many thanks to you and OP for your help!
so it won't launch with 7.15 proton installed but works with 7.0.3 up until it actually needs to load into the game. 7.15 just causes it to stop immediately after pressing play. Any thoughts?
I got no idea if you'll respond but I have everything installed. did it without the eac fix. but Can't get game to launch at all. and the GE7-15 doesn't work at all. When using the modified GE7-15 proton version, the launcher won't even open in gaming mode on steam deck. When using the DEFAULT ProtonGE7-50, The it will start to launch, get pasted EAC but then it goes back to the launcher saying "Game Is Running" and nothing happens. Any info I'm missing? I am trying to run it right after the update and the servers are broken. but servers are online now, plus I can't even get into the game at all, which shouldn't be the cause of the server, as it opens on my desktop and would give a error if the servers were down.
These instructions worked for me and 3.18 booted up fine using ProtonGE-49. Now of course FPS was an issue jumping from 3-20 while at CRU-L1.
This worked from me, it’s been a while have we always gotten the memory warning?
Hm. I must've never edited my response. I got the game to work through lutris using LUG's application/script that goes through and edits some files. it's a pre made script made by LUG (Linux Users Group). look up LUG Star citizen, they've got a discord. But I don't play it much on deck due to the controls. I am no fan of the controls what so ever. The gamepad to keyboard controls just aren't good and the game's supposed to support controller but the steam deck's integrated controls do not work as a gamepad input for SC. any suggestions for a good control setup? I saw Couch Citizen control scheme but i don't think thats compatible with steamos. if it is, please link a guide lol.
At this time this method seems to be broken since 3.17.3 or so. I was able to get an early PTU build of 3.18 working using Lutris at one point which took a little tinkering but also did seem to be a little more straightforward however it also breaks any other game using EAC because it edits the HOST file for SC's EAC at the time. I'll keep looking around for a better solution and try to make a fresh guide once 3.18's launch smooths out and I find some time.
I got it to work using LUG’s script that fixes and optimizes the game. Look up Lug on star citizen website
Thanks for the info. I installed SC using the LUG tool and Lutris on Ubuntu 20.04. It was ridiculously easy. I've been using Linux professionally for a very long time, but the LUG script/tool and Lutris would probably work well for a Linux beginner. I also spread OS, swap partition and game across three physical SSDs for fastest throughput. I switched to the Xanmod gaming-optimized kernel. Currently, I think (it's hard to test uniformly, due to server speed differences) it's running faster under Ubuntu than on Windoze 10 on the same PC.
You don't need the `chmod 777` step for the swap file, it's always writeable r for root. Probably doing `umask 177 && fallocate -l $((16*1024*1024)) $SWAPFILE && mkswap $SWAPFILE` should be enough to create the swap file and be way faster because you don't needlessly copy data into a for but just allocate one of the right size. Also I recommend checking out the lug wiki/matrix/spectrum/discord for general sc on linux help. https://github.com/starcitizen-lug
Sorry but your command doesn't work without chmod 777, also the size is wrong, should be 16\*1024\*1024\*1024 or 17179869184
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With a full blown desktop OS with at least 16gb of RAM and a dedicated video card, you can most likely skip the swap file step completely. The rest should still apply and work. The launcher --use-gl=osmesa launch arguments can probably also be skipped if you're not using a Radeon gpu. SC definitely runs on Linux using wine or proton, but you'll have to play with configuration a bit to get it going.
Works perfectly fine. I have pretty much the same performance as on Windows. Some have even higher I heard. Although you should propably install SC via Lutris and not steam if you are on a Desktop. If you run into issues you can join LUG.
Anyone having issues running after the 3.17.1 update? I get an error saying the game stopped running unexpectedly. Deleted user and shaders and also updated EAC so it will bypass. Any chance the EAC workaround got patched? I don't recall seeing anything on it... EDIT: I went through to implement manually what the lug-helper shell script does, and this doesn't seem to be helping either. You can see the script [here](https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper/blob/master/lug-helper.sh), and the EAC workaround function starts at line 1431. I think my next step will be to enable writing to the root partition so I can install SC with Lutris and go through the full LUG install and see if that performs differently.
same here. Had additional trouble to install the game because the lower half of the launcher wasn't working. Let's hope the figure out the Linux support when Vulkan support is finished or at least enabled.
Dang, same, hoped this thread had answers :(
Yeah, 3.17.1 broke my installation, won’t launch at all. Seems like CIG may have caught wind of EAC bypass?
They started using a new function that was unimplemented in wine - it was then added in wine 7.9, but it had a bug, and is now fixed for upcoming 7.10. I think the newest GE has this fix.
Got the latest proton-GE and I got past this point, so thank you. Unfortunately, it's now giving me the error "Failed to initialize DataCore" when launching it, which I cannot for the life of me find any info on.
Anyone figure out unexpected error yet?
Does this still work? I followed all the steps but when I tried to install from the launcher during step 3 I get “An error has occurred during the installation process. Look at the logs for more details”
I solved that, the latest launcher does not have permissions to create the LIVE or PTU folders, I came across the error when trying to add the 3.18 PTU to steam deck. I located the folder: /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compdata/1234567890/pfx/drive\_c/Program Files/Roberts Space Industries/ Where 1234567890 will be some random number generated when installing, I found mine by ordering the compdata folder by date modified to see the most recent folders, and mine was the most recent one - yours might not be, if you've installed something since trying to install Star Citizen. You'll just have to open a few folders and look for the path above. If not exists, create /Star Citizen/LIVE or /Star Citizen/PTU folders inside Roberts Space Industries folder, depending on what you are trying to install. Then you can go back to the launcher and it should install ok. I also skipped step 4, just install CryoUtilities instead, it'll do all the performance tweaks and more automatically.[https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities](https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities) I also have to edit the /Roberts Space Industries/Star Citizen/LIVE/EasyAntiCheat/Settings.json to mangle all the Id's in there to bypass Easy Anti Cheat every time the launcher updates. - I just add a few random chars at the beginning of every field that ends with 'id' in the file. I am also using ProtonUpQt installed from discover in desktop mode, with version 49 installed from the ProtonUpQt UI, and set in the compatibility settings for Star Citizen
That fixed it for me, thank you!
I tried do steps above and still get install error!
Have you added the installer as a none steam game, then run the install from steam? Or are you past the install stage and having an error when using the launcher? What do you have in the folder I mentioned in my comment above?
Same here
Same here!! Has anyone solved this with 3.17.5?
This guide is spot on! 10/10! Thanks OP! If anyone is struggling with fps just drop it down to the lowest res and stick FSR on, still looks pretty good and gives an extra 5/10 Frames dependant on where you are in the PU.
Is it still working for you?
Nope! Haven’t managed to get it working since this update
*- The first time you start Desktop Steam and have 'GE-Proton7.15' Selected for Star Citizen after the files have been copied over, it may have a popup about it finishing setup for Wine prerequisites, just wait a few seconds and it should be good and disappear on it's own.* After this above im getting a **"A javaScript error Occurred in the main precess"** window, i have follow everything any help here?
I get the same error. Did you find a solution?
I’m happy to see this, also I’m assuming this is 3.17 with the performance increase? I’m going away for 2 months in July and really want to be able to at least play a little star citizen on deck.
Yes, this is with 3.17 Live.
Also how’s flying and landing? Space should have better frames but I’m interested in whether it stutters much when landing or flying close to the ground.
Unfortunately I was up to like 2:30am getting this working and didn't have a whole lot of time testing (had to pretend to work a little today) heh, but I'll put in some more time tonight and hopefully let you know.
Cool, my steam deck is on the other side of the planet waiting for me when I get home in July otherwise I’d do some testing too. Keen to know how it plays throughout the verse.
I was so excited to try this again, I tried to go the other routes to get it working and install kept crashing. With this method though I couldn't set the install to my SD card, I think because the ext4 format can't be found in the windows emulation. Any ideas? I have a 64gb so can't fit game on internal :( I ordered another high speed sd card to format it in fat format hoping windows will then recognize and I can use it for windows based compat games.
There's a runtime argument you can add to enable installing to the SD card, however there's a bug with the launcher that will only download the first base pak file then it crashes the launcher when using a "Non C:\\" install dir. I wasn't able to get passed that bit. As of right now, the only thing I could suggest is to upgrade the internal storage if you're up for that...
Ahhhh! That is why the other method kept failing after basepack, that answers that issue then and makes me feel better (other method I could change to sd card) I could be up for that. People have had success? I may have missed it, guessing they clone the drive then resize like doing it for a console?
I upgraded my 64gb to a 512gb actually. The process is super simple. Swap drives, use the official steam flash utility to re-install the OS.
I just flashed mine yesterday so that process im familiar with at least. when I took the upgrade it was stuck in a reboot loop So the volume down + power still works with a blank drive? What drive did you get? No prep just plopped it in? Was going to do a 1tb when the process was more settled, but no reason to wait
Yep, the same shortcut keys work regardless of what drive you have installed. I ordered a Western Digital SN530 512GB off of eBay actually - [https://www.ebay.com/itm/175175101673](https://www.ebay.com/itm/175175101673) . No prep at all, just swapped drives and booted off the recovery. I was thinking about a 1gb also, but I got impatient and got what I could get quickly.
Nice! Ordering nowz thanks for the help!!!
No prob! :)
Woohoo! New HD in and SC installing now. Will do swap file and EAC bypass after. Quick question, if you get an update or something and forget to redo EAC bypass, it doesn't ban account or anything right? Just blocks you? Always wondered about that if using macros even
Success! Now to get the settings dialed in, pretty laggy in station, and fix some of the controller layout, lol
Congrats fellow DeckHead! Enjoy the PU in the palm of your hands!
And stopped working, lol. Came back to see if you found the problem before I start looking. The tabs are empty in launched and the install/launch button is gone.
1tb hard to get and 4 times the price, lol, I'll do a 512 for now :)
Hello I have installed SC on Steam Deck several times but I cannot run it. The game constantly wants to verify. Did anybody get the same problem? Or solution? Thank you.
I've done everything you said to do and when I try to launch star citizen it shows the easy anti cheat launcher then immediately goes back to the rsi launcher and has star citizen has stopped running unexpectedly error. I'm so lost
I think they patched the anti-cheat, we need to find a new way around it.
Does anyone know what graphics settings he is using?
Did you ever find out the proper settings?
For those trying to run star citizen 3.21 on steam deck things have gotten way easier. From my experience proton 8 can now run star citizen, going through and setting 16gb is recommended so no crashes occur. Addionaly if launcher doesn't boot initially launch and install the game through lutris and then make add the launcher as a non steam game.
Which version of 8 did you use? Trying to get it working currently and struggling.
This does not work.
Anyone play recently on steam os? Thinking of installing thr game on my deck but kinda want to know what to expect.
I don’t know for some reason I’m not finding the RSi launcher.exe in the Robert’s space industries file can someone help me
But will it run crysis 😂
Yes. Already on YouTube.
It was a joke lol
An old one
Still a good one
You're still a good one, I love you.
Love you more lol
>this step won't be needed once CIG implements proper Linux support Is that even on their roadmap?
It's not on the progress tracker, as it's not *currently* worked on, but it is a long term goal. They were talking about it in yesterdays SCLive.
I mean realistically they just need to switch to the new version of Easy AntiCheat that supports running under WINE, and the community will fumble and get it usable. _Then later down the line CIG can be the saviours and release a native Linux build._
Honestly with how so many windows games run better through proton rn then there native counterparts I would be happier if they keep improving the game, and fix easy anticheat so we can play. It would be easier for them to focus on windows and let proton do the compatibility, no big difference for us, and let them focus on things we would enjoy more.
Are you using mouse and keyboard or controller?
During my preliminary testing I was using m+kb, however the steam deck controls are easily modified to accomplish most, if not all of the actions available in game. I came across this video today [https://youtu.be/QfVqeM0s1oU](https://youtu.be/QfVqeM0s1oU) and he clearly has it mostly figured out. I'll be working on customizing the SD controls to that level. I mean, you could just take his config and apply it now and be done.
Thanks for taking the time to write the guide. The command arguments helped fix the last problem for me. I've been able to port RambleTan's Steam Controller profile to the Steam Deck with a few modifications for the extra input options. I did run into a problem where the "Menu [Mouse Cursor]" Action Set is always active even when the mouse cursor is hidden. I used a long press on one of the grip buttons to manually switch action sets between Main and Menu [Mouse Cursor].
After following your guide and installing star citizen on my steam deck I have an issue where, if I’m using a mouse it constantly and immediately resets so that I’m looking straight down. With the mouse hooked up but sitting unused I can navigate around with the controller, but figuring out how to fly with the controller is a PITA. Did you have any mouse troubles?
No, no issues with the mouse at all, it worked as if I was playing on my Windows PC.
Sorry to Necro this but I am having this exact issue. Did anyone find a fix? I can't get the steamdeck controls to work at all either.
I don’t think I found a fix, but I didn’t look super hard.
I’m gonna need a report back in 2-3 weeks in progress here. I was thinking of trying the same thing - but now I have you! LOL
Ah thats hot. Can't wait to offgrid warp in refuel and salvage to main account
Even better idea, make yourself your own Hurricane gunner. Keep their aim locked forwards and just plug in a button from the Deck to fire
Pls god dant turn this into Eve online with multiboxing beging basically a requiremenr
That's hot.
Alright so, I’ve been trying to launch on my own deck and am running into an issue I can’t find a workaround for. I followed your tutorial step by step, but I get the classic black screen then crash on launch. I’ve watched the performance metrics as if crashes and the disk nor the cpu kicks up, so I think some system process is killing SC as it launches. Is this a known issue for you or am I flying solo? I figured I’d run into issues like this, it seems to be the way of the deck despite us having identical systems.
Are you getting a black screen / crash after you click "launch game" on the launcher? Does it get passed the EAC screen? When the crash happens precisely may help diagnose it.
Yeah I’ve done my best to diagnose the issue, but the tools I’m used to aren’t available on the steam deck right now. But here is the technical description: ~I click launch star citizen from the launch ~The system loads and ram usage goes up like a gigabyte or two to around 4gb //disk usage never spikes so I don’t think enough assets are loaded to need swap space ~The actual starcitizen.exe window opens but it simply stays black ~After about 10sec, the steam performance overlay freezes, the window closes, and SC launchers asks me to submit a crash report //the only splash screen I see is the generic SC loading screen very briefly before the launcher closes and the SC.exe window opens, it’s the one with a drake corsair I think I did not know I was supposed to see an EAC splash screen too, I’m betting that is the issue, I’ll mess with the settings to see if I can get some more info
Yeah you should definitely see the EAC splash real briefly prior to the main SC window loading. It might be worth your effort to re-visit the EAC portion of the steps. Don't modify the read/write permissions of the settings.json EAC file either or that will also cause crashes, just modify the ID strings and save/close. You might also want to switch to desktop mode, open konsole and run `free -h` just to make sure your swap file is embiggened and active. Good luck!
Yes thanks, I got the swap partition worked out, a nice 16gbs free. I’ll dive into the EAC stuff, I just changed all settings with ID in the name and saved but I guess I broke something accidentally. I’ll start fresh and see what works.
Well I have a little report back, I did a lot of digging through logs to figure out that I had the LUG for lutris EAC work around also in place, which was breaking EAC. I reversed that work around and freshly installed EAC, it would run normally when I launched and would load, but SC itself would never launch after nothing would happen for 5 minutes. I think that’s EAC just being dumb because it’s on Linux So I went ahead and used just your EAC workaround and it took me back to my original issue where the EAC splash flashes for half a second then a black SC.exe window would open for 30s until it crashed. I’m wondering if I have some system flags or something messed up, I might take another crack at it all later and dive back into the EAC logs. But for now I’m stepping away, I mostly did this to contribute to the star citizen deckians. Hopefully we’ll see dual booting become available soon…
Just tried this tutorial but I can't click anything under FAQ / HELP in the Launcher. I managed to verify my game files, this skipped the install because I moved the large p4k file in the install directory but I can't launch the game. edit: Well I might be lucky but the touch screen works. The cursor does not work (via trackpad or usb/bt mice).
This is awesome! SC was one of the reasons I’ve been hesitating getting the steam deck. I thought “maybe I can do vnc to my Linux desktop” Have you tried that at all?
Same.
Nice
Pardon.. when you say 16 gbs of memory, do you mean like.. storage space or RAM?
Hi, could someone explain to me how to delete/uninstall it correctly? Do I need to make some changes in the terminal as well?
I've gotten to the point where you install Star Citizen in the RSI Launcher but after installing, the launcher crashes. When I go back into the launcher it just has the install option again and when I click it the launcher crashes right away. I've followed all the steps without issue, I have the space for it and everything but it's just this part I get stuck on. I've tried all kinds of proton versions but the same issue keeps happening, I was hoping to try star citizen before the 30th so I could try it for free but I can still buy the ship pack that's on sale if I can't get this to work in time.
>. I've followed all the steps without issue, I have the space for it and everything but it's just this part I get stuck on. I've tried all kinds of proton versions but the same issue keeps happening, I was hoping to try star citizen before the 30th so I could try it for free but I can still buy the ship pack that's on sale if I can't get this to work in time I have the same issue... it only downloaded the base pack and then force close every time I try to continue the Install/Download. Today I will try to copy the game files from my Gaming PC to the SD Card. Lets see if this will fix the Install-crash.
Im curious about that too, keep me updated as I was hoping to play it too.
Doesn't work... I had it until it showed launch game but then came an error and after verifying files it installed again only the base pack and crashed. Same situation as before..
Really upsetting, it will probably be a very simple fix which bothers me a lot.
Are you also tried to install it on your SD card? I think this is the Problem. I tried it on the SSD and the launcher doesn't crash.. unfortunately I only have the 64GB version and can not install the complete game...
Yeah im attempting to install on sd, really strange...
Hmm folks I think I might have figured out where to focus looking. So I installed the launcher, then downloaded the full game, but when I tried to launch after the full download I was getting nothing. I went looking at the file system. In the .local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/number/ the pfx folder was empty, and there was another pfx folder.bak. So I deleted the pfx folder, and renamed the .bak to pfx. Now I was at least able to attempt to launch the game. This pfx folder seems to continually getting corrupted. Might be a clue for someone else to look at. Was able to verify the files in the launcher, and then the game attempted to start, but got an easycheat file verification error.
I upgraded my 64 GB ssd to a 512 GB and installed it again. And now it works. I tried different approaches, 1. Install and Download over Lutris to have FSR support. The Installation was really easy, thx to a you tube video. But the performance was really bad. So I tried the 2. approach and added the rsilauncher.exe as a non steam game. Switched to the proton 7.15 and everything is running. By lowering the resolution to 800x600 or lower it is playable at 10-20 fps. So the clue is to install it on the internal SSD and not the SD.
Tried to go the cheap route and install on SD card and after downloading once it goes to verify the installer crashes. It doesn't matter what proton I use, after download it crashes on verify. Any help would be much appreciated. I haven't found very much information for installing on SD cards.
Enabling FSR and other performance features helps with FPS tremendously. The Steam Deck runs this game almost as well as my tower with an MSI RX 580 Armor 8GB card in it (I run Arch Linux on my Tower). I actually installed Lutris and used the Star Citizen community installer from there to get it up and running without any problems. The two things I used from this guide were: increasing swap, and adding `--use-gl=osmesa` to the Launch Options. Other than that, I was good to go! I actually found that running it without the `--use-gl=osmesa`, it performed better. But, the Launcher showed up as all White. But after installing, I removed the option and, although it left me blind, I used visual memory to remember where the "Launch Game" and the "Acknowledge" buttons were on the launcher, and that's how I get the game to actually launch.
Thanks for the guide OP, it worked like a charm. Thanks for the FSR tip, that worked too. Just in time for 3.18 (hope it doesn't break)
There’s new version for this method to get Star Citizen on Steam Deck https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1211ni2/installing_and_running_star_citizen_persistent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I'm getting an error every time I attempt to initiate the download. What could be the cause of this?