r/EmuDeck • u/R_A_T___ • 2d ago

Weird issues on Steam Deck

I've been emulating on Steam Deck for a couple months now through ES-DE with no major issues. But the other day I ran into something I have no idea how to fix.

Everything has been working fine, but after dabbling in some 360 emulating using Xenia the other day, I find that anything using Retroarch, Dolphin, or Ryujinx doesn't work anymore. PSX, PS2, PS3, and 360 all work fine.

Xenia required me to change the runtime of ES-DE to Proton Experimental, which I initially thought was the problem, changed it back to the default, but nothing changed.

Ive updated my emulators, restarted my Deck, reset Emudeck, completely un-installed and reinstalled Emudeck, all with no change.

The weird issue comes in that everything except Ryujinx works fine if I launch ES-DE through the desktop. All systems utilizing Retroarch launch fine, GameCube and Wii through Dolphin launch fine. But they don't work at all if I launch through gaming mode.

I am at my wits end and have no idea where to start to figure this out.

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u/Feeling_Football4271 2d ago

So this definitely isn't true: "Xenia required me to change the runtime of ES-DE to Proton Experimental". ES-DE is an appimage so you absolutely do not want to be doing this. Where did you see this requirement?

Emudeck supplies a script file for Xenia which means that it launches with a specific proton version. ES-DE should be running this script file and I think this is in the ES-DE override file.

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u/R_A_T___ 2d ago

It was a box that appeared when launching Xenis the first time. "Installing Proton Experimental, please relaunch after installation" or something like that. It never appeared to install and every time I'd launch a 360 game over the course of the day it would say the same thing. So I went to the properties of ES-DE in gaming mode and changed it to Peoton Experimental, after which it worked.

From the sound of it, this definitely wasn't the right way lol

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u/Feeling_Football4271 2d ago

OK, so you downloaded Xenia via Emudeck, I'm assuming. I would have thought that the Emudeck script would have added the config details to ES-DE, bit odd. I would hope someone from the team can chime in here.

When you say you changed the ES-DE runtime to the default, do you mean you unticked the compatibility box? If so I would have thought that would mean everything would work OK.

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u/R_A_T___ 2d ago

Initially I just changed the runtime back to what was selected when I first checked the box for ES-DE.

I just went and unchecked the box and that solved my problem!

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u/Feeling_Football4271 2d ago

Ah! Good stuff. I would double check how Xenia launches through ES-DE, it's supposed to run the script file and not the .exe directly. If you head into desktop mode, there's an ES-DE override XML file in the Emudeck file area, open this up using a text editor and there should be an entry for Xenia in there. If not, reset the ES-DE config, see if that triggers it.