(Steam Deck Game mode) Launching games from Steam is erratic

[brechtm]

Describe the bug

Launching Heroic games from Steam in gaming mode is buggy since upgrading to 2.5.0 (from 2.4.?). Sometimes it works fine as before, but often it starts the game several times (typically 3 or 4). I'm not sure, but I think games also take longer to launch compared to 2.4.? (also reported in #2115).

This happens for all games I tried. I haven't yet verified whether the same happens in Desktop mode.

P.S. Thanks for this wonderful piece of software! It makes the Steam Deck even better, adding user-friendly support for GOG and EGS games.

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Steps to reproduce

1. Install game in Heroic
2. 'Add to Steam'
3. Launch game in Steam
4. See the game starting up several times

Expected behavior

Launch game only once.

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System Information

Steam Deck

Additional information

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[flavioislima]

I cannot replicate that.
The issue introduced on 2.5 is that if the game has an update, it will hang on the loading screen forever. This I fixed already.

One thing it have in mind is that if the game is set to auto sync saves, the startup will take longer than normal.

[edt-xx]

I am in PC with beta2 and have had this Happen with cyberpunk a few times. I've not been able to figure out how to trigger it on demand though.

[arielj]

@brechtm is this still happening with heroic 2.5.1?

[brechtm]

I upgraded to 2.5.1 yesterday and haven't seen it happen again. But since on 2.5.0 it didn't always happen, I'll need to give it some more time before I can say it is fixed with relative certainty.

In any case, it still takes longer for games to start. Seems to be around 15 seconds, the save path detection timeout mentioned in the release notes. I tried manually syncing (download) saves on Celeste, which failed, so that may be related?

[arielj]

In any case, it still takes longer for games to start. Seems to be around 15 seconds, the save path detection timeout mentioned in the release notes. I tried manually syncing (download) saves on Celeste, which failed, so that may be related?

yes, it's probably related, if you disable auto sync saves for Celeste, does it start the game immediately?

[flavioislima]

should be fixed now

[brechtm]

I haven't seen this issue anymore! 👍
Starting games still takes quite long, even though auto sync saves is disabled.