[Discussion] How to upgrade SLSSteam

[Karrq]

Hello! I wanted to first of all thank you for the project, it's amazing to see this type of tool available for Linux.

I set up my Steam Deck with it about 2 months ago (including game mode), and everything was working well.
Yesterday I attempted to update SLSSteam to the latest version, so going from 20251020130032 to 20251127165606.

In doing that I was notified that there were missing config options, and also thru the release notes I noticed the ticket cache changes...
In particular, with the config changes, I had to look in config.cpp (for the default config) to understand better the new config items and how to correctly add them to my existing config.

Regardless, even with all that, seems like I misssed something as now the games that I had setup don't work anymore: the client shows play and everything like before, just the games crash shortly after launching.

On a side note, the issue presented itself in both game mode and desktop mode, but now it's only in game mode.

[AceSLS]

Hello! I wanted to first of all thank you for the project, it's amazing to see this type of tool available for Linux.

Hello there aswell. I'm glad you like it and thank you for starting a discussion.

You did not need to upgrade your config manually, you could have just let SLSsteam create it again by renaming your old config before starting Steam.

Regardless, even with all that, seems like I misssed something as now the games that I had setup don't work anymore: the client shows play and everything like before, just the games crash shortly after launching.

Did you update anything else than SLSsteam aswell? That sounds rather odd since SLSsteam only acts inside the Steam client so games should be unaffected. Can you tell me one of the offending games (a small one would be preferred) so I can look into it myself?

[Karrq]

You did not need to upgrade your config manually, you could have just let SLSsteam create it again by renaming your old config before starting Steam.

I see, could have done that as well but wanted to preserve the config as much as possible. Will retry with a new config.

Did you update anything else than SLSsteam aswell?

No. I do agree it is odd, and also more odd that it "sometimes" works.
I have setup SLSSteam with a system extension, so I just replaced the .so with the newer one from -Any release (will try the arch package as well later)

As for game issue, I will double check with 'Baba Is You' (Linux depot only) but that's the one I first noticed it with, IIRC.
I tried other ones but they are not as small. In general, all not owned games seem to fail to launch.
I tried also setting LogLevel 1 and inspecting the logs but I couldn't determine much there

[AceSLS]

As for game issue, I will double check with 'Baba Is You' (Linux depot only) but that's the one I first noticed it with, IIRC.

Try checking the game's executable to make sure it has the executable permission set.

[Karrq]

Try checking the game's executable to make sure it has the executable permission set.
Ok that wasn't set, and after setting it the game launched (Desktop mode)

Does this apply also for games run thru Proton?
I also noticed this issue in Pacific Drive and Blue Prince, both windows games, along others.

In general, these work in desktop mode but not game mode. I thought perhaps SLS didn't inject properly in game mode but I'd see "Purchase" on those games and not "Play" I think.

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I was going to write that response, but after trying again 'Baba Is You' with the executable bit set in gamemode it worked, as so did the rest of the games as well.
I'm not sure why that is, tbf. I didn't set executable permission on anything else.

I did revert to the original version I was using, but I had the issue with that one as well - makes me believe it was something else entirely and it fixed itself after a few more reboots.

In any case, a changelog would be appreciated <3

[AceSLS]

In any case, a changelog would be appreciated <3

I already try and summarize changes in each release. If you want to know every change i perform you could also look at the commits of main :)

Some of the bigger ones have some of my thoughts attached aswell in case anyone cares.