Fixing missing/black PBR textures on the Steam Deck

I recently got my Steam Deck and installed BeamNG but found that the textures on many maps were missing/black. It turns out this is a known issue and there is a somewhat simple fix but there are a few hoops you need to jump through to get it working on the Steam Deck. I have tried to write highly detailed instructions that you should be able to follow even if you haven't used Linux very much/at all.

Fixing the textures

1. Enter desktop mode on your Steam Deck
   1. Press the Steam button
   2. Select Power
   3. Select Switch to Desktop
2. Set a password (This can also be done through the terminal)
   1. Open Settings
   2. Select Users under the Personalization section
   3. Select Change Password
   4. Set a password (Note: you can open the on-screen keyboard by pressing STEAM+X)
3. Open Terminal
   1. Open the start menu (Steam Deck icon in the bottom left)
   2. Search for and select "Konsole"
4. Disable SteamOS read-only mode and setup keyring
   1. In the terminal window, enter "sudo steamos-readonly disable"
   2. Enter the password you created (Note: the characters will not appear when you enter them)
   3. Enter "sudo pacman-key --init"
   4. Enter "sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux"
5. Install pip and requests
   1. Enter "sudo pacman -S python-pip"
   2. Enter "Y"
   3. Enter "pip install requests"
   4. Enter "Y" if needed
6. Download and install the missing texures
   1. On the Steam Deck, open a web browser and go to this link https://github.com/SnoutBug/BeamNG_terrainMaterialCache
   2. Copy the script link and paste it into terminal
7. Enable SteamOS read-only mode
   1. Enter "sudo steamos-readonly enable"
8. Re-enter Gaming Mode by selecting "Return to Gaming Mode" icon on the desktop.

You should now have textures in BeamNG.

 

Thanks baby cakes

 

A little complicated but I’m sure it works