Vortex refuses to launch

[Flood123789]

I been using your tool since I had gotten my deck a few weeks ago, when to refresh my game and re installed your tool from scratch along with it. Vortex refuses to launch after nuking all files from your app. Factory reset steamdeck and the issue persists. I noticed one possible issue here:

I seem to have an access denied error that I'm not sure how to correct. Can I get your assistance?

[pikdum]

What release channel is your steam deck on?
That error shouldn't be the issue, but this might be the same as the other issue.

I probably need to do a fresh install on my system to be able to reproduce.

[Flood123789]

i am currently on the stable channel

[pikdum]

@Flood123789 Should have a fix:

1. completely remove the broken Vortex:

rm -rf ~/stl/
rm -rf ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/pikdum-vortex.desktop

2. run "Update Pikdum's Tools" on desktop
3. run "Install Vortex" on desktop

Issue was caused by a pre-release Vortex 1.8.0 version, which is crashing on startup here.
This quick fix just forces Vortex 1.7.8 to be installed instead.

I've opened sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch#792 to track Vortex 1.8.0 support and/or an upstream fix.

Let me know if that fixes things. :)

[Flood123789]

That did the trick! Thank you for the help!

[pikdum]

No problem, thanks for reporting the issue.
I'll go ahead and close this issue then.

[aerojet029]

when closing Vortex, it autoupdates even with the setting checked not to update, forcing it to break itself. any way to force a newer version of proton or experimental?

[pikdum]

any way to force a newer version of proton or experimental?

Yes, but couldn't get newer Proton GE to work at all on Steam Deck for whatever reason.

You can install a new Proton version like:

~/stl/prefix/steamtinkerlaunch dcp /~https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/download/GE-Proton7-55/GE-Proton7-55.tar.gz

And you can tell Vortex to use it in ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/global.conf:

USEVORTEXPROTON="GE-Proton7-55"

Proton GE 7-55 was the latest working version I could get running, though. If somebody can figure out how to get Proton GE 8-3 working, then that should fix the Vortex 1.8 issues.

Or maybe there's a different Proton build that would work? My best guess is that the newer versions need some system dependencies that the Steam Deck doesn't have the proper versions of yet.

[aerojet029]

using Proton Expiremental through steam seems to have the vortex manager working fine, Been trying a ton of things to get it to work through launching from steam, but the "deployment" of mods is just completly borked. also I'm not sure how to create an "excecutable" to work when downloading from Fireforx

[pikdum]

Just shipped a fix that should have Vortex 1.8 working.
Probably need to re-install to be safe, though.