


wincfg - add CD-ROM drive pointing to /tmp
Frame limit to 60 FPS, the GPU clock to 200 Mhz, TDP Limit to 6W
Full guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3248920963
tl;dr:
- Proton-GE 8.32
- Add a CD-ROM drive pointing to /tmp in winecfg
- Use the community control layout
- Limit TDP to 5-6W, GPU to 200MHz, FPS to 60

Frame limit to 60 FPS, the GPU clock to 200 Mhz, TDP Limit to 6W
Full guide: https://steamcommunity.com/app/497360
tl;dr:
- Proton-GE 8.32
- Add a CD-ROM drive pointing to /tmp in
winecfg
- Use the community control layout
- Limit TDP to 5-6W, GPU to 200MHz, FPS to 60Hz
quartz amstream klite for playing videos in Sydney (green background shown) dgvoodoo2 for better graphics symlink to drive letter in dosdevices and entry in registry for cdrom registry settings for better graphic options and gamma (game is too dark) registry settings for resolution of 768 height (for Sydney to avoid email issues) and width that corresponds to the screen ratio for 768 height. Widescreen works in 16/9 and 21/9 (32/9 not tested but i don't see why it wouldn't work)
Used protontricks to add a bogus cd rom drive
At bigger resolutions the text is too small
Game freezes after a certain point
There's a problem with video codecs whenplaying AVI files. Bik files play properly

So game requires a CD drive on your device, doesn't check what it is though! By mounting an empty folder in protontricks GK3 works on the steamdeck.
Original idea adapted from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/wb5r8f/is_there_a_virtual_cddvd_equivalent_to_daemon/
Steps below:
- Run Protontricks
- Select the default wineprefix
- Run winecfg
- Go to the "Drives" tab and press "Add...". Select whatever available drive letter you want.
- Change "Type:" to CD-ROM, and then select an empty folder, I just made my own.
The game should then boot with 4.11-13. Other versions may work better but this is the first version I found that loads in.
If you change the resolution up icons and text become smaller.
Still early days with this, but at least there is a way to get it to load now!

Replaced with GOG .exe but does not solve the load CD 1 error. Tried various versions the best of which was proton 4
Replaced .exe with GOG version
Does not work

6.15-GE-2 GloriousEggroll

Works well, needed to mount a fake ISO dvd for it to get past the CD check at the beginning, switched video to my graphical card
Ran into the issue with the movies not playing on day 2, switched to Proton.6.8-GE-1, no issues any more and even the Sierra logo at the beginning of the game played flawlessly
Game will sometimes not start in full screen and the application is minimized, but alt-tabbing to the runtime brings it up fine.
FPS drops when opening the in-game menu.
Force use of Proton 5.13-4

Installs and runs, shows a black screen which after hitting esc you see the opening movie and the continue screen. Saving works, you have to disable "incremental rendering" in the game settings to avoid ghosting. You have to disable FSAA (FXAA/MSAA in nvidia's control panel). Several things are broken: The inventory does not show any items in it (when there are several), there are certain items in the world you cannot interact with (especially pesky is the roll of tape in the closet of the initial room, needed to further advance in the game later on). Once you have had dialog with a character, the "talk to" icon is missing from the options as you click a character (the basis of these types of games talk, talk, talk, investigate, look around, talk some more, and finally... talk!), just for the record, the very same happens with regular wine. This seems to be a problem of the models being "invisible" to the cursor, so you end up selecting what is lying behind character models. Speaking of models there seem to be a number of rendering issues with skins and depth, so when a character, for instance passes his/her hand over his/her chest, the outline of the underlying texture shows on the back of the hand, etc (Z buffer issues??). For the record, this very same things also happen in regular wine, and worse, regular wine may be a pain to get working since, for some reason, the .exe is not recognized as a win32 application. None of the usual workarounds have any effect.


Game asks for CD 1 if you don't have an optical drive. GoG have provided a fixed exe http://files.gog.com/support/GK3.zip
