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title: Getting Deus Ex GOTY Edition running on Linux
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date: 2022-03-12
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---
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I've been struggling with this for a few hours, so I might as well document how
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I did it.
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I have a particular setup, which ended up causing issues. Most important are
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that I'm using Sway, a tiling Wayland compositor, and a flatpak install of
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Steam.
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## Mouse doesn't move when the game is launched
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It looks like there's a problem with the game window grabbing the cursor on my
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setup, so moving the mouse doesn't move the cursor in the game and if you move
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it too much to the side it takes you out of the game window.
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The solution to this is using Gamescope, which is a nested Wayland compositor
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that makes the window inside it play nice with your actual compositor.
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Because I'm using the flatpak install of Steam, I needed to install the
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[flatpak version of gamescope](https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam.Utility.gamescope).
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One catch here is that for me, this wouldn't work if I also had the flatpak MangoHud installed.
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The only solution I could come up with right now was to uninstall MangoHud.
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```bash
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flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud # if you have it installed
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flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam.Utility.gamescope
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```
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Then, right click on the game and select properties, then in launch options type
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`gamescope -f -- %command%`. This will launch the game inside gamescope, and the
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cursor should move inside the game now.
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## The game is too dark to see anything
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It looks like the game relied on some old DirectX or OpenGL features or
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something, because once you do launch into the game, everything is extremely
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dark and hard to see. At first I was wondering how anyone could play the game
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like this, but it turns out that's not how the game is supposed to look!
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I finally managed to solve this by following the installer steps for the
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[Deus Ex CD on Lutris](https://lutris.net/games/install/948/view). Yeah,
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roundabout way to solve it, but it worked.
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First download the updated D3D9 and OpenGL renderers from the page, and extract
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them into the `System` folder inside the game.
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```bash
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cd "$HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Deus Ex/System"
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wget https://lutris.net/files/games/deus-ex/dxd3d9r13.zip
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wget https://lutris.net/files/games/deus-ex/dxglr20.zip
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unzip dxd3d9r13.zip
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unzip dxglr20.zip
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```
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Next, download and install the `1112fm` patch.
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```bash
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cd "$HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Deus Ex/System"
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wget https://lutris.net/files/games/deus-ex/DeusExMPPatch1112fm.exe
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env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/6910/pfx/" wine DeusExMPPatch1112fm.exe
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```
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Follow the steps of the installer. It should automatically find where the game
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is installed. Once the install is done, launch the game, then head into the
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settings and pick "Display Settings", then "Rendering Device". In the renderer
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selection window, pick "Show all devices", and then select "Direct3D9 Support".
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Launch back into the game, head into the display settings again, pick your
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resolution, and restart the game. Then head into the display settings yet again,
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this time change the color depth to 32 bit. Restart once more. Yes, you do have
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to do them separately or the game doesn't save the color depth change for some
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reason. Finally, you can start playing!
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## Other small issues
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Here are a few more issues you might hit during this whole process:
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> My cursor moves too fast!
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You need to turn down the cursor speed. My mouse has buttons to adjust the speed on the fly, so I use those to turn down the speed.
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> After changing resolution, I can't move my cursor!
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Use the keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys and enter) to exit the game. It should work again when you restart.
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> The cursor doesn't move when I open the game, even with gamescope!
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I'm not fully sure why or how this happens, but a few things I found useful:
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- When the game is launching, and it's showing the animation of the studio logo, don't click! Press escape to bring up the menu instead.
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- Press escape to bring the menu up, then hit escape again to dismiss it. It sometimes starts working after that.
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- Use the keyboard to exit the game and restart. It always works the next time for me.
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