I turned my Steam Deck on tonight and the SD card just insisted it needed to be reformatted. After restarting a few times and reinserted the card it still wouldn’t come back so I gave in and formatted it. Now For the King 2 won’t install to my internal drive - when I click install it warns me that the game is installed on a drive that isn’t connected, gives me an error message at 4% and if I click Resume it apparently fully installs, but then the game won’t start, it tries to load and then just stops again and the Steam Cloud refuses to sync.
Things I’ve tried:
Restarting (several times)
Putting the SD card back in
Editing, renaming, and even just deleting library folders.vdf
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I don’t even remember what else was installed on that SD card so I can’t test any of the other games.
I seem to have fixed it? For some reason the cloud sync was affecting the installation
What if you symlink the SD card steamapps directory (since its unmounted the mount pount will just be a regular directory on the root filesystem) to your internal storage steamapps directory?
I seem to have fixed the issue, for some reason the cloud sync was screwing with the installation and clearing out a file related to it fixed it. Thanks for the idea though, on the off-chance this comes up again - because I’m not likely to trust an SD card in it again - I’ll look into it