MO2 on Steam Deck Help!

[chucksteel]

I recently picked up a Steam Deck to use as my gaming system. (don't judge please it's much better then the way I was gaming with an emulated version of windows 11 on my Mac.) 

I was following the tutorial from "MO2 Linux Installer"  I was able to install MO2 for both FO4 and FNV with out any problems but I'm having a bit of an issue installing MO2 for FO3.

I get an error saying,

Downloads: install.sh - Konsole
New Tab, I Split View ~
L Copy
Paste
Q Find :
INFO: all dependencies met
INFO: selected game 'fallout3_goty'
INFO: found Steam in •/home/deck/. local/share/Steam'
INFO: game not found in '/home/deck/. local/share/Steam•
INFO: game not found in '/run/media/deck/Itb CF Drive'
INFO: steam not found in •/home/deck/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/. local/share/Steam
ERROR: could not find any Steam library containing a game with appid '22370'. If you known exactly where the l ibrary is, you can specify it using the environment variable STEAM_LIBRARY

The game is installed on my internal SSD and not on the 1TB CF drive. I don't have a clue on this part "If you known exactly where the l ibrary is, you can specify it using the environment variable STEAM_LIBRARY"

I do know where the game is installed. 

I did do some Googling on the interwebs and one suggestion was to check that "Protontricks" could see the game and it did. 

I'm at a loss of where to go from here and I do hope someone here can point me in the right direction or lend a helping hand. 

thanks in advance 

chuck

[AaronOfMpls]

I'm on Manjaro Linux on my PC, so the process is similar for me.  Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to installing MO2 for FO3 or NV yet -- only Skyrim LE and SE, and Oblivion -- though I'll certainly update in here if I do!

(I'm also still on MO 2.4.4 for the moment.  Maybe I'll try the current installer and see how MO 2.5 does with it.)

[chucksteel]

Today I had no issues installing MO2 for Skyrim SE (the anniversary edition) and Oblivion. 

I tried FO3 again with no joy! 

On a similar topic is it possible to install another version of MO2 for the GOG version of FNV? I Picked up the GOG FNV in the hopes I would also be able to have a separate install for "A Tale of Two Wastelands".

I also installed the GOG version of FO4 so I could have a separate install for Fallout London (GOG FO4 and London installed without any issues or without a need for MO2)

Edit: MO2 for Morrowind even installed but can't find the game when creating an instance in MO2 itself. 

[AaronOfMpls]

On 10/31/2024 at 4:15 PM, chucksteel said:

On a similar topic is it possible to install another version of MO2 for the GOG version of FNV? I Picked up the GOG FNV in the hopes I would also be able to have a separate install for "A Tale of Two Wastelands".

I also installed the GOG version of FO4 so I could have a separate install for Fallout London (GOG FO4 and London installed without any issues or without a need for MO2)

Probably.  But you'd have to do it manually, since rockerbacon's install script only works with Steam versions.  And likely have to manually point their copies of MO2 to where the game files are.

I don't know exactly how ATTW works, but is it possible to just use a different MO2 profile for it?  Or is enough different in the game folder itself to make that impractical?

On 10/31/2024 at 4:15 PM, chucksteel said:

Edit: MO2 for Morrowind even installed but can't find the game when creating an instance in MO2 itself. 

I use the Linux version of OpenMW for Morrowind myself; it's a free-and-open-source replacement game engine (the .exe itself) for Morrowind.  It has its own built-in mod manager, that (like MO) can load mods from separate folders outside the game.

 

* in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/ on my PC; not sure where the Steam Deck keeps this.  <number> will be the app ID number Steam gives these non-Steam installs.

Edited November 2 by AaronOfMpls
friggin ytpos

[chucksteel]

I tried the "So called" easy install for OpenMW, it asked me to point to my Morrowind install but the installer can't find it because the installer doesn't see hidden files and folders. 

I don't see any step by step instructions for us noobs.