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X2 is where the real foundations of the X-series came together and arguably where anyone looking to play an older X title should start.
strangle144 %command%
As mentioned below, Missing Speech in game (pretty vital) needs file X2/mov/00144.dat re-encoded to Windows.WAV format (122mb file becomes 1.7Gb after encoding) and replace the original file. Once done, all audio plays perfectly. (I used SoundConverter)
I experienced the afore-mentioned crash when changing camera modes. However, I added the launch command to limit the game's framerate as it was trying to run at 300-500 mhz (Yay modern computers!). Then I was able to play solidly for a good hour or so without any crashing (so far/touch wood).
X2 is where the real core of the X-series came together and arguably where anyone looking to play an older X title should start. Egosoft's improvements in X2 over the first two games put in place many X concepts and systems that can still be found, though more evolved, in X4: Foundations. Though I'd kill for cool clothing like Elena Kho's dress in X4!
%command% & sh -c 'until xdotool windowactivate $(xdotool search "X2 - The Threat"); do sleep 1; done; xdotool key RETURN'
Skip the launch window with Steam launch option
Only voices are missing, rest is fine
Game won't launch because of the start of a hidden launch window. Skip it via game launch option in Steam. You can see the launch window and make adjustments there in Steam Deck desktop mode.
Without this workaround, i didn't get the voice to work. Even if the voice over is bad. Something feels missing if you know them.
Get Voice - encode voice files
I found a good forum thread which explains the workaround to hear the voices ingame. forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=151065
In short, the X2 - The Threat/mov/00144.dat (wma) has to be encodet to wav. The file with the german voice is 00149.dat
I reworked the complete controll settings... i will publish it on steam when i am satisfied with them
To bypass the launch and settings window(or more that steam doesn't recognize this one already as game) you need to set the virtual desktop to 1280x800
The key to get this game running was to enable the virtual desktop. I did it with lutris (set the prefix right and klick on the bottle beside the play button(yes you need to make a dummy entry for this) select wineconfig and enable the virtual desktop. i removed the checkmarks for decorating, maybe not necessary). It did't work with 7.X for me... 5.x i did not test I had only one crash and that was maybe me tinkering with the controls(game froze and audio repeats itself)
-dxlevel 81
Wouldn't launch with experimental without setting the dx version. Without using the dx version in launch options if EAX is enabled you will get a wine mono error requesting you to install wine mono.
I (eventually) managed to get the game to run with perfect audio and video (logos, intro music, menu music, comms chatter in cutscenes etc...) with <protontricks 2800 winxp qasf quartz amstream devenum wmp11> on Proton 6.3-8 (no other version >= 4.11-13 came close) but it was quite unstable. Would CTD when docking, entering a new system after some play time or halfway through playing a mission briefing.
Annihilated the prefix and just running Proton-6.10-GE-1 now. It seems to fix all the audio problems and most importantly seems a lot more stable.
After <protontricks 2800 winxp qasf quartz amstream devenum wmp11> intro and small prerecorded videos and voices work (russian version).
Played with Proton 6.3-8/5.13-6
Proton 6.3-8 forces to 16-bit textures and universe looks bit strange. Need protontricks fix also.
Proton-6.16-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
Just installed Proton-6.16-GE-1 released (glorious eggroll or so :) and forced the use of this
As usual tabbing is not a good idea.. but it did not crash the game. Already "speaking" people will stop talking and NOT resume talking after tabbing back. But the next speech will be heard again :)
The short intro ad-videos are now shown(nvidia, etc.)
No more crashes while someone is "talking". Fine!
Works perfectly so long your Steam is well installed & you have installed Glorious Eggroll Proton (easy to do).
GloriousEggroll Proton-6.10-GE-1
In the player menu, there's "Incoming Messages" feature. These are the sort of the reminders of what you have to do. Those are text messages, but they're also voiced. For some reason one of those messages got read through only half-way. I can't tell if it's an indication of any problem, but I figured I would report it.
Over 2 hours of in-game time, I have only ran into 1 crash while docking at the station. However, I can't tell if it's a Proton issue, as I remember running into these same sort of crashes on my Windows XP machine about 10 years ago. So it could be more of a programming error; however it shouldn't be an issue, because game auto-saves every time you dock at a station, which is frequent!
I was using the Glorious Eggroll Proton-6.10-GE-1. With it all of the audio issues mentioned by me and other in the past are completely gone (as far as 2 hours of game-play can show).
This custom Proton fork version is not enough on it's own. You have to have steam installed correctly. Previously, I had Steam installed using Pop_OS! Shop, which made it so newer versions of Proton don't even get to line of code, where it can start producing logs.
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What I had to do to fix this issue, was to: install Steam via terminal with apt install. I also launch it via terminal for a good measure.
Additionally, I went over the entire linux gaming setup all over again using this tutorial. What I found was that I did not have "gamemode" installed, which could have contributed to the game working fine as well.
I added this to the game launch options: gamemoderun %command% I don't know if it changes anything, but by this point I'm tired of testing - you can try running without it.
When launching the game, initial pre-launch options menu will pop-out. When selecting resolution, make sure you don't accidentally select 16bit colors - this will make it crash immediatelly. Use 32bit color.
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I tried running the vanilla experimental proton with/without the gamemode option, however it's not quite there. The vanilla "experimental-6.3-20210629" Proton fixes the audio issues to a degree, however they still persist. What it does, it succeeds in playing the voice & music audio, however for some reason it cuts off abruptly without finishing playing every time. Perhaps, someone could try playing around with Proton launch options & see if it goes away?
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In summary, everything works well:
- The game runs fine
- The voice & music audio issues are gone
- I didn't run into any graphics issues either. I'd say I've had a full-fledged experience so far.
GloriousEggroll Proton didn't make a difference.
I've noticed that another user has reported success with Proton-6.10-GE-1, so I tried it myself. Not even initial menu was loaded. Same behaviour as vanilla Proton 6: You click play, then you get a "Preparing to launch" pop-up for a microsecond, and it ends up with nothing having happened. I also have tried Proton-6.4-GE-1, which made no difference as well.
I don't know what made it work for the other user. It could be another linux distro (I'm using Pop_OS! 20.10 - Ubuntu derivative). It could also be different hardware. It all feels like a dice roll, so you might as well give it a go and see for yourself whether GE makes a difference or not.
Game can run fine using 3.16-9 version of Proton, however no voice or music audio will ruin the experience.
Missing Voice (dialog) and Music audio. Game sounds are fine.
Missing small video communications window. It's the pop-up one that shows the NPC character's head while it's talking.
Proton 3
The best Proton version so far is 3.16-9: it will allow you to launch, run & play the game. However voice and music sounds are absent. Also the talking head video window is also missing. In a game, where you spend most of your time flying through empty space atmosphere is key. Unfortunately, it's 100% lost with missing audio. Proton 3.7-8 crashes while trying to load the main game menu.
Proton 6
I also tried Proton 6.3-5 and the version above "Experimental" - these don't even open the initial menu. You click the Steam's "Play" button, it turns blue and then green again as if nothing happened.
Proton 5
Lastly, I've tried Proton 5.0-10 as it was reported to have similar performance of Proton 3.16-10, however it was only able to open up main game menu. Once I started the game, it froze during loading.
- 'protontricks 2800 --force -q winxp qasf quartz'
- 'protontricks 2800 --force -q amstream devenum wmp9'
После установки компонентов появились все звуки и анимация загрузочных экранов
No music or voices.
Not playable on proton 5+ crashes or fails to load.
With proton 5.13-6 music and voices work but crashes due to video issues, otherwise games run perfectly (sound effects only) on older version of proton.
Works well.
Played with Proton 5.0-7.
Without the music the game loses a lot of its charm.
Voices and Music are missing.
runs perfectly out of the box
Good performance no problems
UnknownNo voices, how can I live without this pure cheese voice acting!?
UnknownUnknownGood performance, game seems to work, but audio is not perfect. Only some sound effects are working. Voices (and soundtracks?) are not played, as describe at winehq: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=30532 I didn't test the workarounds.
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