[Guide] Run MHR on Steam Deck after DRM patch

[elin_lyze]

There is a way to run MHR on Steam Deck after the DRM patch.
The only issues I have are that online does not seem to work, maybe we can figure that out too. I did not find out all of this by myself. Thanks to the Monster Hunter Modding Discord!
Here is how I did it:

1. Go into the Steam Decks desktop mode

2. Close Steam completely, meaning you need an external keyboard attached!

3. Open Konsole or the terminal of your choice

4. Type in "steam steam://open/console". This should open Steam with the Steam Console open

5. In that console type "download_depot 1446780 1446781 2774960673144263209" and hit enter. Steam will now download an older patched version of the game. There is no progress bar, this can take however long the game download would take you usually.
5.1 When it's done the console will show a message telling you and where to find it.
5.2 It should be in: "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamapps/content/app_1446780/depot_1446781/". If you do not see .local make sure hidden files are visible.

6. Copy over the "MonsterHunterRise.exe", "re_chunk_000.pak" and "re_chunk_000.pak.patch_001.pak" files to your current install of Monster Hunter Rise ("/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/MonsterHunterRise/").
6.1 I got an error telling me it failed to load steam_api64.dll, if you get the same also copy that file over.

Go back into Game Mode and launch the game like normal.

[elin_lyze]

Reserved

Obviously do NOT validate game files and do NOT update the game (unless Capcom fixes the issue on hand).

I also read in other discussions that people got multiplayer to work with this, I am not. Maybe you can chime in if it works for you.

I also could not get the game to start with the REFramework dinput8.dll, neither nightly nor stable.

[Ricky]

I just uninstalled it. Don't want to deal with this crap and i'll not be buying from crapcom again. The player count is down 30% since last week at this time, probably because of this patch.

At least i can play GU on the Deck without the risk of it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and i guess i'll also check out frontier since i heard it has private servers.

[BEEP!]

Here's something funny the cracked version works on steamdeck like nothing happened lol

[Illumina]

Of course you wont be in matchmaking with the updated userbase so that's a problem.

[Ricky]

Publicado originalmente por Illumina:

Of course you wont be in matchmaking with the updated userbase so that's a problem.

i saw someone say they didnt change the version numbers internally and i was playing on my deck online well after the patch came out, 7 hours, was joining people, before i ended up restarting my deck and it updated.

[Not Edible]

Thanks for the work around OP. I'm think I'm just going to give it a few days and then uninstall if it's not fixed. Funny, I was just telling people how well MH:Rise runs on Steam Deck too.

[Crash Burnwell]

works with proton hotfix now in compat options

[elin_lyze]

Publicado originalmente por vifon:

Note, there is a typo in the path in point 5.2. It's 1446780, not 1446790 (8 instead of 9). The correct full path: /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamapps/content/app_1446780/depot_1446781/

I am so sorry for that, fixed it! Thank you so much for pointing it out :)

[elin_lyze]

Publicado originalmente por Platypus:

works with proton hotfix now in compat options

Will have to check that later, thanks for pointing that out.

[elin_lyze]

I can confirm, MH Rise on latest patch as of now runs with Proton Hotfix!
Starts normally and runs as usual so far. Will report if I find issues.
So far this seems to be the best workaround!

Thank you to Platypus!

Edit: I have about 5-8fps less with this version it seems. Had to increase TDP limit to 10 from 9 to get stable 45fps. I would get about 50-53avg unlocked before, now 45-46 with the same settings and 1w TDP more :/