Steam Deck

Steam Deck

ITNoetic May 4, 2022 @ 10:18pm
Don't nag about how the game was installed on a drive that is not currently connected when trying to install to another drive
Maybe this feature request is too specific. But it seems like a thing was done to help that actually just hurts.

I had a 1 TB card. I formatted it to btrfs using Windows. It worked fine, except for an issue where the card would not auto-mount in game mode. Sleeping was fine, but if I ever did a hard reboot, I would have to log into desktop mode once before game mode would see the card. Following support's recommendation, I formatted the card using the Deck, or at least attempted to. The format failed, and the card was bricked. Its filesystem is entirely unwritable, no matter what I do, or what device or app I try to use.

I tried it again with a different (smaller) card to test, and realized that the behavior apparently applies to all cards. So there is no way to get btrfs on an SD card and have it auto-mount in game mode. That sucks. So I decided to go back to ext4.

I had a backup 1TB card I'm borrowing from my phone while I wait for the replacement to arrive. I was able to successfully format it as ext4. However, now, I'm trying to go back and reinstall the games that were on the other card.

And every single time I hit install, after going through the usual "agree to the EULA again" rigamarole, it now goes "hey, note, you already installed this on another drive that isn't connected!" as though I don't know I swapped cards. And it's adding several button presses to the install process of all the games. 100+ games.

It sucks. Please add a "never tell me this again" option or just remove the nag. The *one* time I don't want it to ask me where to install (because the internal drive is already close to full), it asks me every time.

This is the worst!

Edit: I eventually figured out that instead of viewing each game, I can use the menu button to install them directly from the Library view without losing my place in line. But then, most of the time, I didn't get to see how big the game was before I started the install.
Last edited by ITNoetic; May 4, 2022 @ 10:59pm
Date Posted: May 4, 2022 @ 10:18pm
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