Running the game on Steam Deck

[ajburley]

Following on from #74

Has anybody successfully run the game on Steam Deck?

Since the Linux version of the launcher was created, I have managed to run the launcher itself on Steam Deck and use it to install the game.

Initially I got code 127 even though I had installed Wine from Discover. It turns out that the launcher can't directly run the flatpak version of Wine as it runs the wine command. So I created a small wine script

#!/bin/bash
flatpak run org.winehq.Wine $@

and put it in /home/deck/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin with chmod a+x.

This means when I click Launch it at least tries to launch. But it still exits with "The game crashed with code 1". Is there some kind of log I can review to get more info about what the problem is?

[ajburley]

By the way, running wine with the full path to KnockoutCity.exe I get failed to open error with error code c0000135, but not sure if I'm doing something wrong as I'm new to Wine. Googling that error code, it's often been due to file paths entered incorrectly.

[ajburley]

I installed flatseal and gave Wine all permissions including filesystem. Now the game tries harder to launch but still fails, this time without any error code. When running wine directly, passing the path to KnockoutCity.exe, I get some more descriptive errors, but no idea what they mean.

https://imgur.com/a/UttC6xa

[imp-dance]

Bumping this thread to let people know there is also interest in getting this running on silicon/m1 based Macs. If anyone has managed to get that working, please let me know! 🚀

[TheRealFame]

At the moment i'm running a flatpak installed version of steam, So. Using something like steam tinker launch or manually locating the prefix is said to be the best option to executing the launcher within the zip file, But as far for playing, I haven't tested that out yet.