Running BIT.TRIP RUNNER (and other games from BIT.TRIP series) on Linux

Introduction

Even though Steam for Linux can start games from Windows with Proton, not all games works correctly. This guide will help launch BIT.TRIP RUNNER (and other BIT.TRIP games) on Linux.

Requirements

• winetricks
  
• protontricks[github.com] (optional)

Important: this guide assumes that you haven't installed the game. If you've installed game earlier, you should delete your steamapps/compatdata/<gameid> folder.

Affected games

• 63700: BIT.TRIP BEAT
  
• 63710: BIT.TRIP RUNNER
  
• 205060: BIT.TRIP CORE
  
• 205070: BIT.TRIP VOID
  
• 205080: BIT.TRIP FATE
  
• 205090: BIT.TRIP FLUX

Basic preparations

1. Install game, but don't run yet!
   
2. Go to your game's folder and delete "Dependenices" folder (or "dep" for other BIT.TRIP games).
   
3. Launch the game, it should give an error. Point is to generate game's WINEPREFIX in compatdata/<gameid>/pfx.

Installing requred DLLs with protontricks

If you have protontricks installed, run

protontricks 63710 d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9_43

If you're using this guide for other BIT.TRIP games, replace 63710 with your game's ID.

Installing requred DLLs without protontricks

If you can't install protontricks or don't want to install it, you can run this command:

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/steam/steamapps/compatdata/63710/pfx winetricks d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9_43

where /path/to/steam is your Steam client/library path.

If you're using this guide for other BIT.TRIP games, change 63710 with your game's ID.

Some notes

• DLL substitutes install from winecfg won't work. Don't use them.
  
• Don't use GUI mode of winetricks/protontricks. For some reason it shows only d3dcompiler_47, but not d3dcompiler_43. You can install d3dx9_43 from it though.
  
• Actually, only file that you really need to delete from dependencies folder is oalinst.exe. If you won't, there will be no sound in game. But since other dependencies are already satisfied in Proton, you can safely delete dependencies folder completely.

[midtstøv]

for the UI mode, those are actually there (at least on SteamOS). i successfully got RUNNER working on my Steam Deck.

[ryukusu_luminarius]

Thank you very much. It works!
At first, it didn't work as I had a bug with protontricks. And in my case, winetricks refused to work. So, I updated protontricks and installed the dependencies.