It’s been years since I tried out Decky Loader on the Steam Deck. I love what it brings and enables. Unfortunately I had to reinstall the it every time Steam got an update; which is very often, because I use Steam Beta. I am thinking of installing it again, but it was annoying in the past.

Did this issue got resolved or would I need to use stable Steam if this bothers me?

  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    Use Stable Steam. Before any version update I disable SteamGridDB, as this one is prone to breaking.

    I stopped using CSS loader since we have Big Art Mode as an option now, which also caused crashes on occasion.

    You could add the Decky installer package (might be the wrong word here) to Steam from Desktop mode to run a reinstall without going to Desktop mode for convenience. Or more future-proofed, use this.

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-installer/main/cli/install_release.sh

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      8 days ago

      I’m mainly interested into showing the ProtonDB rating. But I don’t want to use Stable Steam.

      • Maiq@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Just a heads up, LSFG-VK combined with PowerTools can give you a major FPS boost in a bunch of games making them enjoyable not just playable. IMO must haves on the deck.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          8 days ago

          And Decky Localsend, so you can transfer files without going out of game mode.

          I actually have a different way of handling file transfer. I use my filemanager with SSH to directly access files like they would be local.

          As for an update to bork the system, I’m not that concerned about it. I am one of the pre-orders and it never borked for me. But good to know that in such a case there is a solution. My only concern with Decky Loader is just that it breaks with frequent updates. It’s unfortunate.

          • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            9 times out of ten rerunning the installer and selecting repair for Decky fixes it.

            The other time it broke was due to SteamGrid crashing whenever I would hover over the Decky icon after hitting thr QAM.