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Works
Cutscenes don't work at all
This game has a lot of hotkeys, so I manually bound the ones I want to use.
- D-pad: F1, F2, F3, F4 (switch between the build menus).
- B: escape (cancel current selection)
- X+left joystick: middle mouse button down+ mouse input (rotate the screen).
- Left trackpad: rotate building
- Options: Pause
- L4: Toggle tower lines
- L5: Toggle top-down view
This game seems pretty battery-intensive. I made these changes:
- Set refresh rate to 60 Hz.
- Set TDP to 11.
But I'm also playing with maximum anti-aliasing turned on, so your mileage may vary.
With this configuration, the frame rate drops when there are a lot of units and projectiles on-screen, but I don't find it very noticeable.
The UI scaling can be changed in the settings, which helps a lot. However, if you set it too high, you won't be able to see the full menu screen when viewing community-created maps.
The game crashes when attempting to open the wiki.
The game also crashed once when attempting to load a saved game. However, that same saved game loaded successfully when I tried again.
Creeper World 4 is an amazing game, and it plays really well on the Steam Deck.
However, be sure to save your progress regularly, just in case you encounter a crash. Creeper World games can easily last 45+60+ minutes, so losing that progress sucks.
Game fails to start
Tried multiple other proton versions
work out of the box just sad that vsync doesn't work
vsync doesn't work ! Not very pleasant when not used to :/
vsync doesn't work even after try to limit fps at 60 (to be sure it'll be stable) or by putting the "vsync=1" command (doesn't even know if it's really a working command)
Does not start at all
I have tried so many proton versions and none of them work, the game does not even start.
Versions I have tried: GE-Proton7.2 Proton Experimental Proton 7.0-3 6.3-8 5.13-6
I have tried many proton versions, none of them work
Bound "rotate" to L4/L5, and "Pause" to Y.
After some minor control tweaks, Creeper World 4 played perfectly.
Multiplayer does NOT work with Proton-GE. GE fixes cutscenes, but breaks multi.
Valve's official Proton cutscenes (two very minor ones) are borked but multi works fine.
For details: https://github.com/KnuckleCracker/CW4-bug-tracker/issues/948#issuecomment-955617452
Game is working perfectly fine
The two videos in the campaign are not showing, but they don't impact the gameplay.
Runs nicely with some minor issue
Minor lagging / crackling
The beginning cutscene of the first level does not play correctly
5.21-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
The light blue creeper blockers start showing huge white circles everywhere when depleted
With Proton 5.13, everything but the intro video works.
I set the startup option to DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="GTX 960M" %command%
I use Proton-5.8-GE-2-MF (after it worked in the demo), didn't try standard proton version. Had not one single crash/bug/issue with it.
Proton-5.21-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
crashes in campaign maps usualy near the end
5.9-GE-8-ST GloriousEggroll
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.9-GE-8-ST
Had to tinker a bit with the demo, but not with the full version.
There's meant to be a video at startup, which is instead just a black screen, that you need to skip past.
Proton-5.21-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
It works fine with the normal latest version of proton out of the box, but the intro cinematic won't play due to missing MF DLLs. It can be skipped and the game will work normally. If you're like me and want to have it work 100%, you can use a GE fork of Proton like I did or go the MF-install route.
Game would start, I was able to select and start mission, but then was hit by black screen. The way I fixed it was to right click the game in the taskbar, hit 'Close' and then the game would prompt me whether I wanted to 'Exit' or 'Cancel', after which I was able to hit Cancel and play the mission.
Proton-5.8-GE-2-MF - https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases
Intro movie remained black using default proton 5.0.9 and the game wouldn't progress. Once I switched to the GE fork of proton it works fine.
