


Getting Windows XAudio unable to initialise 0x80040154 error

Had to set borderless windowed display and restart the game for keyboard to be properly detected
Text is a bit small in general, but still readable
When the in-game setting "Borderless Fullscreen" is disabled, most controls mapped to keyboard shortcuts will NOT respond to input.
No response of steam deck controls mapped to keyboard strokes, unless "Borderless Fullscreen" is enabled in in-game graphics settings and game is fully restarted then afterwards.
Source: Reddit user "exitmouse7" wrote: "(Info from u/cat_yawn) set the game to borderless full screen in settings and then fully restart the game.
I did this and the keyboard bindings/community controls worked properly after that"
I didnt test Multiplayer though yet. Only quickly played the first gdi mission partially so far.
Changed controls for my play style
After spending hours of trying different versions. I found out that 4.11-13 is the (only?) version that lets us use the controls as intended. No more issues with commands not registering etc.
Have fun !
=> 4.11-13
Using the built-in controller, I could only ever get left click, right click, scroll down, and scroll up to work. No other keyboard buttons (including Space and Escape) did anything. I tried default Proton, Proton Experimental, Proton Next (7.0-6), Proton 7.0-5, Proton Hotfix, and I even installed GE-Proton7-44. Nothing made any difference. I've had no issue with this in any other games (including games that only support kbm).

With the default proton version the controller is not completely recognized and most keys are not detected, same as soft keyboard. With GE everything works as expected.

No controls but mouse 1 and 2 accepted. On screen keyboard input is ignored making saving impossible.
Locked to 30FPS
It's pretty small but readable
It works great after changes of the controller to emulate mouse and mouseclicks. But the text could be too small for some people