Never used any of these method and frankly, I only have a vague understanding of how it works. In my experience, I played 100% of my pirated deck games just adding the exe file to steam, use proton experimental most of the time. If it doesn't work, check reddit for fixes, most of the time it is dependencies, specific proton version, or just needing a launch command. Using steamrip BTW. I use Fitgirl when I want to listen to the installer music.

So, can anyone explain what are the benefits of using Lutris or Heroic? I am curious.

So if I pirated a game, and add the exe as a non-steam game, then run with Proton (as I've done for years), clicking play will result in the game beginning to load, but it doesn't get anywhere, because before a load screen can show up, the play button switches back from "Stop" to "Play".

Through a Proton log created when launching these games, I can see that the game's launch, but Steam is force closing the application immediately.

Anyone else had this?

I have the original game from Steamrip, they just released a DLC and steamrip has it as well.

how can i install this while keeping my save file?

Hi, is it possible to get the lost judgement fitgirl repack working on steam deck. Done the usual non steam game steps but it's not launching and assuming this is to do with the denuvo bypass. Is there something else I need to do or is it not compatible for steam deck?

I want to install Forza Horizon 6 on my main pc and stream it to my TV via the deck. How can I use the built-in Steam streaming service with an external app? Is it possible or do I need to set up Apollo/moonlight etc separately?

Anyone know how to get dead rising 2 to run? The game doesn’t seem to recognise the steamdeck as a controller.

I keep seeing a lot of different tutorials to get the online part of it working and I wanted to know what was the most recent and easiest way?

I've been eyeing WH40k: Inquisitor for ages now. Even bought it twice and both times refunded it because it kept disconnecting and I had lag issues even though I exclusively play solo. So the other day I looked it up again to see if the devs added offline option or at least fixed the server issues, nope, still the lastest review from a month ago still talks about the same issues.

Then I smack my head and do a quick search on fitgirl's and there it is offline and all!

Don't forget you're a pirate, stop waiting for devs to fix their games out of the kindness of their hearts.

day one of asking for a free game of subnautica 2

so I've been downloading quack games from fitgirl through my steam deck and its taking me forever to unpack these games and im afraid im draining my SD's battery too much. my question is, is there a more battery efficient way to download and unpack quack games? share me your waysss

Hi everyone, I have a steamrip game on my PC that I've been playing and I'd like to take a copy of my save game from PC to the deck to continue my progress. Where abouts on the deck a do I put this save file?

Been struggling a lot but finally managed to do it. Get your FH6 build from your trusted source. If you can find a Steam dump, the better. Look for the DenuvOwO crack on cs/rin. Once you put the files from the crack into the root folder of FH6, you need to do the following inside your steam_settings directory: Open configs.user.ini and add the following lines:

[main::connectivity]
disable_lan_only=1
offline=0

[main::overrides]
disable_all_dlc=0

Then go to your configs.app.ini and make sure this parameter is set:

unlock_all=1

After that, you need to change the steam_appid.txt located in both your steam_settings folder and the main game root folder to:

480

Step 1: Add the Game to Steam Natively

1. Switch your Steam Deck to Desktop Mode.
2. Open Steam > Add a Game > Select Add a Non-Steam Game...
3. Browse to your executable path (even if it's installed on an external microSD card) and add it.
4. Right-click the game in your library > Go to Properties.
5. Paste this exact string into the Launch Options box:SteamAppId=480 VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv,single_queue PROTON_VKD3D_HEAP=1 %command%

Step 2: Inject the Registry Overrides via Protontricks (Most Important Part!)

If you skip this step, the DLCs will not work. Instead of using destructive global environment launch arguments that crash modern Proton, we use Protontricks to burn the DLL overrides directly into the game's isolated Windows registry hive.

1. Open Protontricks from your Steam Deck's desktop application menu.
2. Select your game from the list (it will be listed alongside its random 10-digit Non-Steam AppID) and click OK.
3. Choose Select the default wineprefix > Click OK.
4. Select Run winecfg > Click OK.
5. When the Wine configuration window opens, navigate to the Libraries tab.
6. Under New override for library, manually type version and click Add.
7. Repeat this step to add steam_api64 and steamclient64 (if applicable to your specific bundle).
8. Verify that all three show up in the list as (native, builtin). Click Apply, click OK, and close the window.

Step 3: Install Missing Windows Subsystems

Many modern game pass/retail bypass hooks rely on specific automated Windows authentication components that aren't enabled in a default blank Proton prefix. This ensures the custom version.dll can actually compile its memory hooks when the game initializes.

1. Go back to the main Protontricks menu for your game.
2. Choose Install a Windows DLL or component > Click OK.
3. Scroll down and check the boxes for vcrun2022 (Visual C++ 2015-2022 Runtimes) and d3dcompiler_47.
4. Click OK and let the deployment scripts execute completely.

Edit: The Launch Variable "VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv,single_queue PROTON_VKD3D_HEAP=1 %command%" Can cause some textures artifacting. So use this one instead:

SteamAppId=480 PROTON_VKD3D_HEAP=1 %command%

Also added Step 3 in the end too. Forgot about that part.
Sorry.