game says install? plese help

[ibemo2]

i have played 30+hours i turned my deck off now when i go to the game it says install. what do i do? please help

[titanopteryx]

Can you confirm whether the files for the game are still on your deck? If they are, steam may not be seeing the location they're saved at.

Well i don't have a deck but on the pc you can have steam see different storage locations on your computer.

settings - storage, then add or subtract drives.

If it is uninstalled for some reason, then if you install it again you should regain your saves from the steam cloud.

[WhIteDragem]

chances are it just applied a patch or for some reason just wants to check itself.

(like when we move steam game folders and we have to 'update' the game to make it work again)

chances are you simply need click install and about twenty seconds later it will turn green and be usable.
(either way, the easiest way to fix is to click 'install')

good luck

[paladin181]

If the game was installed to your SDCard, make sure the SD card is actually present. There's a recent bug where the SD card won't be recognized and has to bew removed/reinserted to register.

[ibemo2]

I have tried removing my sd card and restarting several times. It still says install the game and wants me to format my sd card. I don't have any room on my deck to install.

[ibemo2]

Originally posted by paladin181:

If the game was installed to your SDCard, make sure the SD card is actually present. There's a recent bug where the SD card won't be recognized and has to bew removed/reinserted to register.

I have tried several times. Still doesn't work.

[WhIteDragem]

is the SD card a 'ultra budget' variety (ie came with twice the storage for 'half the price')?

if from official retail stores, probably not a 'knock off' SD card, so I'd encourage "do the format" and start again.. (and DO 're-seat' the the card, with the Steam Decks' power turned off, etc before hand)

If the SD Card is potentially a 'knock off'; then it might only have 1/4 the listed storage space ACTUALLY inside...
those drives generally work, without 'too much issue', until you reach the 1/4 capacity (physical limit) they have and then they start giving huge and random use case errors.

I'd start with using a card purchased from a reliable office sales supply store, their 'best brand' and arguably, 'their second or third best card' (at retail in most stores, the 'upper tier' SD cards are not the sorts sold in camera and photography stores.. (they can easily be 4x the price/ twice the speed and reliability)...

I benchmarked A LOT of SD cards (especially when toying with HDR 4K recording), and found that it is easy to find a difference of 20 megabytes a second or 20-40%speed even between the 'mid tiered' "half decent" SD cards that all look the same speed ON PAPER..

So I basically only buy Sandisk (4K HDR had me go with 'some boutique stuff'), and generally only the Extreme (Plus/Pro) lines.
We can argue for 'photography'; no opportunity to re get the data.
Redownloading Hogwarts, other than the network bandwidth, isn't too hard a situation to swallow...

Sometimes budget SD cards are just 'too budget', and buying something better is probably worthwhile (and nowhere near the 'time sink' of faulty and unreliable parts)

If a card check (util/software) can give the OK on that SD card as 'fully working' - at least troubleshooting the SD card would 'no longer be a potential to consider..

given how long a test suite can run on a large SD card, when checking if it works/'all data works' etc; I'd say maybe start that process before sleep and check back in the morning..

[ibemo2]

I am using a Sandisk extreme card. It has been fine for a couple months. No issues until I did an update on the deck.