Attempting to play modded dayz on the deck
I Bought my deck as a way to play games while i'm away from home for work, but the wifi at the places i'm staying have web filters on them that make me unable to connect to the steam friends network.
Oddly enough i can still update and download games, i just cannot browse any community pages or the store page without getting an ssl certificate error.
More to the point this has limited my online game options to games that do not use the steam or xbox live network. To the likes of: call of duty and dayzsa.
I've been able to launch and play dayz on vanilla and lightly modded servers, but the vanilla launcher refuses to show any modded servers that i usually play on.
This brings me to installing the dayzsa launcher. Now i've been a windows guy for a long time and the deck is my first toe in the water to learning how to use proton, or any linux distro. The dayzsa launcher does not have native linux support, So i did what any green linux user would do and downloaded Q4wine on my deck, intalled it with all its default settings. And attempted to install the dayzsa launcher through that.
It launched and ran the setup.exe fine. Installed the launcher and put a couple icons on the desktop. Named: DZSALauncher and DZSALauncher.lnk
Neither of these files launch properly, and the first file gives me an error No.100 saying no such file exists or could not be found. I have a backtrace.txt file from the error i will upload if it is of any help.
If someone who has some linux experience wants to help or just point me in the right direction, i'm always willing to learn this stuff, I'm just stumped.
Posted Nov 5, 2022, 2:52 AM UTC
After messing around for days I got it to work with a Linux launcher called dayzTUI. I could never get dayzsa launcher to run. DayzTUI may take some tweaking, but it works!
Anything you would like to see added/changed in DZTUI/DZGUI? I have an update in the works, but have been engaged on some other projects. I agree that there is some old cruft in there that makes the first-time setup a bit less than ideal.
Not really on the software itself. It does exactly what it needs to. The only issues I ran into were during the install process and were probably due to my lack of familiarity with Linux and the Deck. An eli5 video tutorial would have been nice, but other than that I’m really happy you made it. Thanks for reaching out!
It seems like the first-time setup exclusively causes problems on Steam Deck in particular, probably due to some non-standard stuff. Simplifying it further is on my to-do list, but my Steam Deck test bench is a bit limited atm. I'd like to beef up the documentation a bit more and make it as one-click as possible, just a matter of time. Do you usually use Game Mode or Desktop Mode?
I use Game Mode. Is there any way to use the controller and buttons within the UI? I use the touchscreen now and it works fine.