LINUX WORKAROUND FOR ERROR CODE 26

[SIG-INT]

In the launch options put

STEAMDECK=1 %command% 

This allowed me to play. F-Windows. See you guys in the dungeon. All credit goes toward the discord where this was found recently

[Casual]

Thanks!
I would say:

 STEAMDECK=1 %command% 

Can we integrate it into proton?

[Casual]

Well, for some reason my SpaceBar isn't working in game. Probably related

[Casual]

About space bar - maybe Hyprland related - set it to windowed and back to full screen

[SIG-INT]

Publicado originalmente por Casual:

Thanks!
I would say:

 STEAMDECK=1 %command% 

Can we integrate it into proton?

fix'd.

[LemonFlavored]

got me past error 26 but black screen and stops responding

[Human]

Publicado originalmente por LemonFlavored:

got me past error 26 but black screen and stops responding

I waited a few mintues, and the game worked.
just boot it up and leave it for a few minutes.

[HolyJack]

I'm playing on mac m1 via steam + whisky (wine). After adding "STEAMDECK=1 %command%", I'm getting an error:
"There is no windows program configured to run to open this type of file"

Any ideas?

[HatsuneCthulhu]

Wow this developer is crap. Guess all linux is steamdeck now... Glad I didn't pay for the upgrade and this has basically guaranteed I won't

[MD3XTER]

Publicado originalmente por HatsuneCthulhu:

Wow this developer is crap. Guess all linux is steamdeck now... Glad I didn't pay for the upgrade and this has basically guaranteed I won't

I am also playing on a Mac using Whisky and the game currently doesn't work.

While I am also quite frustrated, I wouldn't call the developer "crap". Mac is not officially supported. And speaking from experience as a developer, it can be hard to make sure your end product works good on all platforms, considering he may not even have a mac to test the game on to begin with.

The best we can do is to try to investigate the issue ourselves and see if there is any workaround for it. At least, that's what I am currently doing...

[Michiel de Ruyter]

Just a quick tip. This fix also works for the Epic Game Store. It happened to be that I discovered this game there before I knew that I could also install it on Steam, I got the same error code. I added the environmentvariable STEAMDECK (key) 1 (value) in the system-options of the configure menu and then the game launched again. For this game that is not so relevant because everybody can play it on Steam but for other games this might work too so here you have this information.

[Michiel de Ruyter]

Publicado originalmente por MD3XTER:

Publicado originalmente por HatsuneCthulhu:

Wow this developer is crap. Guess all linux is steamdeck now... Glad I didn't pay for the upgrade and this has basically guaranteed I won't

I am also playing on a Mac using Whisky and the game currently doesn't work.

While I am also quite frustrated, I wouldn't call the developer "crap". Mac is not officially supported. And speaking from experience as a developer, it can be hard to make sure your end product works good on all platforms, considering he may not even have a mac to test the game on to begin with.

It never is productive to call the developer crap. Let's first give the developer a chance to share why they chose to do it this way and reserve judgement until we know their reasoning. I do find it strange though that they make the program behave differently for the SteamDeck than for regular Linux. At least the MacOS is not supported but Linux is, but only if you use a SteamDeck. That is strange, isn't it? The developer might have a valid reason for it but I can't see it right now. Clearly the program reads the variable STEAMDECK and only if it is set to 1 the program functioning is changed such that the game loads. For example, if it would be about anti-cheat then the game either disables anticheat or allows to run it in a different way (the Linux-version), only if STEAMDECK=1, so in theory only if you run it on the SteamDeck.

Maybe the developer just is not aware of how many people game on Linux on a desktop or laptop and that is why they neglected it? Maybe the developer considers it less of a risk among the SteamDeck users to not have anti-cheat on. Maybe the developer just wanted to cover itself in case an accidental error broke the game for Linux but then why only fix this for the SteamDeck? Strange story. But regardless I won't call the developer crap, I just want to know their reasoning and maybe we get further by communicating, we won't get anywhere by yelling.

nd speaking from experience as a developer, it can be hard to make sure your end product works good on all platforms

that is 100% fair in the case of the Mac, it is not fair in the case of Linux and definitely not in the case of Arch Linux which I run. That is the same distro as which Valve uses for its SteamOS on the SteamDeck. Except that my Arch is a bit more up to date (which could be good or bad) than that for most of the SteamDeck users.
For Linux the simple rule for developers who choose or are willing to support it: make it work on Debian and the Linux communicty will figure out the rest. But in this case, Steam, it doesn't even matter that much which distro you use, Proton will be exactly the same. At most you can break a game by having a bad update or old version of mesa or amdvlk or whatever.

[MD3XTER]

Just posting here in case anyone encounters the same "Error 26" when running it on Mac. "HolyJack" managed to fix it by adding the `STEAMDECK=1` env variable to the entire bottle instead of adding it to the Steam launch properties. Hope it helps!

[znikacka1020]

Publicado originalmente por MD3XTER:

Just posting here in case anyone encounters the same "Error 26" when running it on Mac. "HolyJack" managed to fix it by adding the `STEAMDECK=1` env variable to the entire bottle instead of adding it to the Steam launch properties. Hope it helps!

Could you please explain how to add this env variable?

[MD3XTER]

Publicado originalmente por znikacka1020:

Publicado originalmente por MD3XTER:

Just posting here in case anyone encounters the same "Error 26" when running it on Mac. "HolyJack" managed to fix it by adding the `STEAMDECK=1` env variable to the entire bottle instead of adding it to the Steam launch properties. Hope it helps!

Could you please explain how to add this env variable?

Depending if you are using Whisky or CrossOver, you have to right click on the Dark And Darker executable, "run with options..." and then add `STEAMDECK=1` as an environment variable.

[znikacka1020]

Thanks, I figured it out now everything is working (macbook air m1)