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Installed the original Gog wide-screen patch and swapped the .exe for the borked settings .exe.
Inverted the right analogue, game notoriously did not allow this on HD ports.
Had to spend hours looking at all different hacks but no one article or submission here had it all right for my deck.
Requires forced experimental mode, this removes audio desync in cutscenes and also audio clips cutting out after starting.
Two steps further required to 1: fix the resolution (broken settings menu needs replacing, wide-screen added) and also 2: fix the audio.
Audio is fixed by making a registry edit (credit to Karafa) -
"By fixing the path to the game in registry, you'll fix the audio language. Go to the desktop mode, and edit the following file with text editor:
/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/15130/pfx/system.reg Find a phrase:
Software\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\Ubisoft Replace it with:
Software\Wow6432Node\Ubisoft
They also mentioned that it would fix the config menu, but that didn't work. So step 2.
Download the original file on page 1 here, it should have .exe in it.
https://www.gog.com/forum/beyond_good_and_evil/widescreen_fix/page1
Find the files for the game, take a note of the settings .exe and the main game .exe. Extract the files to the BG and E files, and edit the new .exe file from to have the name of the settings application (give that one a 1 on the end or similar first, just to be safe). So essentially swap out one borked .exe for a new one that we can open in steam.
Now the settings can be opened, go and set to your desired resolution.
With all these tinkers, the game runs beautifully, audio great, visuals great. Slight borders but with the "nobands" hack I had graphical issues, so happy where it is now. Hope I saved someone 4 hours like me.
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
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!
Tried the launch steps and GE29, terrible flickering. The one time I managed to make it past the cutscenes it was a frozen flickering mess.
Would love to know how others got this to work and would be so happy with a working workaround.
Very loud crackling on videos, turn your sound down with headphones or pay the price.
Crashed upon exit
No videos play.
Following Kai's post's instructions, with a slight adjustment for storage of steam files on the SD card.
Kai's steps work, not all Proton versions do but the latest version listed above works great.
A pain to setup but seems to work fine now.
Cutscenes require indeo codecs, steamdeck won't install via gui or console with protontricks
