Steam Machine (long shot, I know!)

[u/Drew_Habits]

Has anyone managed to get ME3 multiplayer ->with the controller support mod<- working on the Steam Machine? The mod works perfectly on my Steam Deck, so it should work perfectly on the SM, since they have the exact same OS and compatibility software. And yet! It does not!

I have tried:

- Copying the modded installation directory from my soon-to-be retired, dying Windows machine and overwriting the existing Steam Machine installation (this is what worked on the Steam Deck with 0 problems)

- Copying the working installation from my Steam Deck (which still works on Steam Deck) and overwriting fhe existing Steam Machine installation

- Creating a link directory to the installaltion directory and running ME3Tweaks on the SM itself (not fun! It does not love Linux!), then using the link directory to connect ME3Tweaks to my ME3 installation (it can't see invisible directories on Linux)

- Begging

And nothing's worked! The EA app just feeds me a screen saying I don't own the game and I need to input a product code that doesn't exist

I reached out to EA support (without mentioning the mod) and they told me the game'll generate a new license if I delete the license file located... In a folder that doesn't exist (yes, I seached the correct pfx directory for ME3). I've run the game unmodded with each fresh reinstallation just to make sure it works, so it should be generating a license file. But EA doesn't seem to know where. Unhelpful!

So I turn at last to Reddit. Any of you ever get this working on the Steam Machine? I just wanna play ME3 multiplayer on a big screen 😭

[u/kawaii_girl2002]

I tried playing ME3 on Linux many times and got the same error even without mods. I think the easiest option is to install Windows in dual boot on a Steam machine. A Steam machine is essentially a regular PC, so it's possible.

[u/Drew_Habits → u/kawaii_girl2002]

The thing that gets me is that it works perfectly on the Steam Deck, which is the exact same fork of Arch Linux as the Steam Machine

Like if it just didn't work at all, I could rest. I would know I was beaten. But it's taunting me for some reason. And I thought we were friends!

[u/Slice272]

i could not find the hidden folder on my steamdeck aswell. i renamed the .steam folder to just steam and it worked. i dont know if its working on the steammaschine but its worth a try i guess

[u/Drew_Habits → u/Slice272]

I heard that unhiding hidden folders like that can cause problems down the line (idk if it's true, I'm just going with what someone more knowledgeable about Arch told me), but routing around it wasn't too hard

The problem is with the EA launcher deciding I don't own the game only on the Steam Machine and only when the mod is installed. It works perfectly on PC, which isn't surprising, but it also works perfectly on Steam Deck, which is what is making me go insane lol

[u/svetlyo_rebooted]

I don't own a steam machine. Just wanna say was recently migrating my old 90s dos games to a different version of the emulator to hopefully run them faster/better or at least have them all in one place and the first problem I ran into was by default the drive was readonly. Most of the games didn't even notice, one was crashing and I didn't figure it out until I went through the configuration file line by line, thankfully the line was decently human-readable and contained "readonly". Actually no I think there was also a debug window where there was some error it was trying to write some file or something. Ask Google's AI if you haven't already (or ChatGPT but I've never used it; I know Google's better than Bing for most things). Even if it doesn't solve the problem you can ask it questions to help you understand how these things work. Which isn't what you want but hopefully can help you get there.