Client on Steam Deck Manual

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Prerequisites

• A Steam Deck with the default OS (SteamOS) installed
• A copy of GTA San Andreas, either through Steam or copied over into your SteamOS
• Multi Theft Auto installer (download latest Win10+ release here)

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Troubleshooting

• Flickering taskbar after MTA started (desktop mode)
  • Workarround for now, go to settings -> video tab and change resolution to 1280x720 (DO NOT USE FULLSCREEN MODE)

• MTA crashes when entering main menu after selecting fullscreen mode in video settings tab (D3D9.dll crash offset ED711)
  • Manually revert this setting by going to

    /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/<ID>/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/MTA San Andreas 1.6/MTA/config<pre> and opening coreconfig.xml with KWrite application. Search for "display_fullscreen_style" and change the property from 0 to 1.

• There was a problem validating your serial
  • Follow the guide over [https://updatesa.multitheftauto.com/sa/trouble/?tr=serial-validation here] and setup the linux server on steamdeck

• Cannot start linux server on steamdeck due to missing libncurses5 file/lib
  • Download the ncurses5-compat-libs [https://arch.alerque.com/x86_64/ncurses5-compat-libs-6.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst here]. After downloading, open terminal inside Downloads folder and run following commands:

<pre> sudo steamos-readonly disable sudo pacman -U ncurses5-compat-libs-6.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst sudo steamos-readonly enable