Submitted 1 month ago by MrGaiety@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
Please do not share any links. I just want to talk about the game.
I managed to get it running under Bottles, but the controller doesn’t work. It’s basically GTA: Vice City running under the GTA4 engine and honestly- the amount of effort they put into this is insane.
Did you start it in game mode or on desktop? You can add a shortcut to Steam directly from Bottles and then start it in game mode.
I eventually got it working under very strange conditions. I had to grab the xinput1_3.dll from the Internet and tell Bottles to set it as one of my dll overrides.
The game now boots fine- but the graphics WILL corrupt every time you load the game. Changing certain settings (like messing with the Reflection quality or the resolution) fixes the graphics.
It’s a pretty annoying issue atm, but at least I can confirm this game does work on Steamdeck via Bottles.
How were you able to get it to find gtaiv in the first place?!
Zoot@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Did you try it with lutris or heroiclauncher? I just grabbed it myself and will install it tomorrow. I’ll follow your tricks.
As for the graphics corrupting, is that with the required changes that the F.A.Q. has? Or your own attempts?
MrGaiety@lemmy.world 1 month ago
These are my specific methods to get the game working- separate from the OP. I used Bottles instead of Lutris to sandbox the game.
Zoot@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Do you have your own copy of GTAIV also installed? I’ll give Bottles a try, but Lutris was only struggling because the mod was unable to find GTAIV