Dirt2 on Steam Deck?

[Handfradze]

Does anybody know if or how Dirt2 can be played on Steam Deck?
I have Windows 11 installed as a second OS, but would prefer playing on SteamOS!

I bought this game over a decade ago...
First I PCs always were to bad to run it...
Then I forgot about it...
Now the OS (and DirectX?) is the problem...
It's a shame...

But it's great, that there seems to be some active players still left! That gives me hope finally getting to
play Dirt2!

Many thanks in advance!

[J5_471V3]

I got this working! I did 2 things, but I'm not 100% sure if the 1st step is necessary: Launch the game from steam in desktop mode. You'll see a direct x install prompt and physx, run through all those dialogs. Then, and I think this is the most important piece, go grab the xlive.dll from the bullet storm pcgamingwiki, and extract it to the steam apps/common for Dirt 2. The game will run normally after this. I think the xblive integration is breaking compatibility with the steam deck, it's been known to cause issues on windows as well.

[Anakin Skywalker]

You probably have to run it in widows so you can mess with the files

[Keelan]

Originally posted by J5_471V3:

I got this working! I did 2 things, but I'm not 100% sure if the 1st step is necessary: Launch the game from steam in desktop mode. You'll see a direct x install prompt and physx, run through all those dialogs. Then, and I think this is the most important piece, go grab the xlive.dll from the bullet storm pcgamingwiki, and extract it to the steam apps/common for Dirt 2. The game will run normally after this. I think the xblive integration is breaking compatibility with the steam deck, it's been known to cause issues on windows as well.

Works perfectly after using that .dll file thanks. Runs really nice too 800p high settings 60fps only using about 10-12w.

[Z3R0B4NG]

Just tested Dirt 2

- the mentioned above xbox live .dll is indeed required
- the water puddles glitch out and show some weird artifacting (either the puddles or their reflections) when >Half Rate Shading< is activate, so leave that OFF for this game
- easy 60FPS even on ultra settings, good battery life, can't complain... maybe a bit much baked in deadzone on the sticks
- controller Template defaults to "Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse", just use one of the standard gamepad templates instead
- works fine in Steam Offline Mode with WiFi OFF

Gaming Wiki has a link to a file that lets you skip the intro videos... the game just crashed when i applied those files, deleted the corresponding files, same thing, restored them and it worked again. Try at your own risk but that is probably a NOPE.

but with the .dll thing i bet that Valve would chuck this into the unsupported games pile.

[Narfeul LeBout]

Hello,

It works with xlive.dll edited for Bullet Storm. Into steam mode, and desktop mode. This Dll shunts the xlive acces. All save files works too. But for Steam, this is not an official support.

[The Outsider]

How do you get this game on steam? the store page is non existent for me and I wanna play it (i had the wii version in the past)

[Kondor999]

Works great with the Bullet Storm xlive.dll. The control is fantastic. What a great driving game!!

[Octanum]

Needed the DLL and also installed the Rapture3D bit (just so it'd stop popping up, game worked either way). Only issue that I ran into is that no controller is recognized, making the game unplayable. I can go into the controls, but all that shows up under presets is keyboard (while I have my USB keyboard hooked up to get to those menus). Tried with community and Valve templates, but no luck, just completely undetected.

[👽Shini]

i crashed when i keyboard typed my name in the beginning of the game, then when i tried to reboot, im stuck at autosave warning screen.
edit:
i uninstalled and deleted GFWL folder as someone suggested becausei skipped this part. so after i booted the game, it asked me to install something and i just clicked cancel and it still loaded the game fine. when i came back to naming myself, i just kept the "Player One" name and chose my name through the audio name selection. That's pretty cool that the audio team recorded many english names.

[Fredd Flock]

The game does not run anymore. Something must have changed in OS to prevent Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 from running.

[plk]

Originally posted by tinternet:

The game does not run anymore. Something must have changed in OS to prevent Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 from running.

can confirm it stopped working on steam os / proton for some reason

[Rodrigo F.]

https:// // www.protondb.com/app/12840

[Handfradze]

You guys are so great!!!

[ignusfast]

Originally posted by Rodrigo F.:

https:// // www.protondb.com/app/12840

Thanks so much for this! I had the GFWL fix, but I hadn't tried running an older version of Proton. 7.0-6 worked perfectly!

[kay74]

Originally posted by Ace⇄TRADE +$3000 AUD:

How do you get this game on steam? the store page is non existent for me and I wanna play it (i had the wii version in the past)

It's been discontinued for purchase. It's only available for download if you bought it before.