Steam Deck and linux users a user name CPTA320 on proton DB got the game to run.

[Chouchers]

Check CPTA320 posts on protonDB.
https://www.protondb.com/app/460120

[Evernote]

Didn’t work for me (Steam Deck)

[Chouchers]

Originally posted by Evernote:

Didn’t work for me (Steam Deck)

Same issue where proton 5.0 not working at all?

At state it in it better just emulate the switch version won't proton 5.0 working it broken.

[Evernote]

Originally posted by Chouchers:

Originally posted by Evernote:

Didn’t work for me (Steam Deck)

Same issue where proton 5.0 not working at all?

At state it in it better just emulate the switch version won't proton 5.0 working it broken.

After applying the ‘fix’ the game just hangs on the Steam Logo when trying to start and exiting/aborting is also not working.

[Chouchers]

Originally posted by Evernote:

Originally posted by Chouchers:

Same issue where proton 5.0 not working at all?

At state it in it better just emulate the switch version won't proton 5.0 working it broken.

After applying the ‘fix’ the game just hangs on the Steam Logo when trying to start and exiting/aborting is also not working.

You can run with proton 7 however you need delete MOVIE.cpk, MOVIE00000.pac and MOVIE00001.pac this can the game auto skip all videos. However don't recommend it because you can't start a new game and need save file. Also the performance was very unstable with my ryzen 5 4600h and rx5600m it so bad at times that visible slowdowns was seen.

[Dunmer Punk]

4.11 works and loads, but no sound..

[CPTA320]

Hello,
what I put up there was just a premade prefix for Proton 5.0 with the dlls required to play the game somehow. I generated that prefix on my Linux desktop and just copy pasted the prefix to my Deck? I probably forgot to also include the dxvk dlls and maybe that's why it didnt work for others?

Honestly this is a janky plaster. I took some more time with a lot of trial and error and figured out a different better solution which seems to have worked on GE-Proton7-55 and latest Proton 8/Experimental. That is by applying a protonfix with 'quartz_feb2010', 'wmp11' and 'qasf'.

I sent a commit to GloriousEggroll, maybe hopefully in his next update the game would just run without doing any more tinkering on GE-Proton.

-CPTA320

[Chouchers]

Originally posted by CPTA320:

Hello,
what I put up there was just a premade prefix for Proton 5.0 with the dlls required to play the game somehow. I generated that prefix on my Linux desktop and just copy pasted the prefix to my Deck? I probably forgot to also include the dxvk dlls and maybe that's why it didnt work for others?

Honestly this is a janky plaster. I took some more time with a lot of trial and error and figured out a different better solution which seems to have worked on GE-Proton7-55 and latest Proton 8/Experimental. That is by applying a protonfix with 'quartz_feb2010', 'wmp11' and 'qasf'.

I sent a commit to GloriousEggroll, maybe hopefully in his next update the game would just run without doing any more tinkering on GE-Proton.

-CPTA320

Nice work going try GE-Proton7-55 solution should also work fairy fencer f advent dark force both games have the same issue however more easy bypass just del all video folders but we should not have to do that just to get game running.

[CPTA320]

Originally posted by Chouchers:

Nice work going try GE-Proton7-55 solution should also work fairy fencer f advent dark force both games have the same issue however more easy bypass just del all video folders but we should not have to do that just to get game running.

In my humble opinion, if parts of the game are cut out, even if it's just intro cinematics, it takes away from the original experience the devs intended and therefor should not be considered "working fine". We like to have it either working all or not.

I don't know about Fairy Fencer, i don't own the game. Mary Skelter also suffers from the same issue that the videos won't play and unfortunately the above mentioned protontricks won't work fix them. I assume that not every IF game runs with the same code/video codec?