Clearly not a good experience right away. It gave an option to retry with a button I clicked, but that totally failed again. Except during the launcher install Rockstar gave an error telling me that it simply couldn't proceed.

I was at least pre-warned on this since I read the compatibility note.

The annoyance begins here of course as I've already waited on a 100GB download. On first launch with Proton 7, what it was verified against, it tells you it needs to install the Rockstar Launcher before you can play. Here though, it was far worse and this is the short story of a semi-eventful Saturday night where I just wanted to play a game that I picked carefully enough - or so I thought. This means it should work well but may have some minor annoyances like small text or a part requiring the touch screen. This is a game that has gone through verification, to get a Deck 'Playable' rating. See also: How Valve Can Make the Deck Verified Program Better As I continue to use the Steam Deck that Valve sent over for both work and play, I tried Grand Theft Auto V and the initial setup was a massive nuisance.

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