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Hovering menu buttons briefly makes their background disappear.
As others have noted, OpenAL installation may report that it can't install due to files being in use, and that a restart is required. Just wait for the game to "stop" in Steam, then run it again. It should work fine after that.
Created Steam Deck Hybrid Mouse layout. Includes D-Pad, magnifier toggles, multiple mouse speeds, and buttos to "shortcut" you way to spells and commonly used in game buttons.
Magnifier can help with spell legibility. Magnifier is almost necessary for lore text, but lore text is unnecessary for the game. I recommend the Steam Deck Hybrid Mouse layout which provides magnifier options on both the left trackpad AND left Joystick.
When a cluster of Skull Gems or a +5 Skull Gem match is activated, the electrical effect used to display an attack appears corrupted/glitched. Thankfully, the effect is quick and not too obtrusive.
Native Deck resolution not used by default, but 1200 x 800 is available in the game options.
Gold at minimum, Platinum at best.
A player could install and play Puzzle Quest as is and may not notice any problems out of the box. Default resolution is just slightly incorrect, making a small portion of the sides appear cut off. PQ supports 1200 x 800 resolution. Game can be played exclusively with right trackpad as a mouse, right trigger as left click and Options as escape key by default.
Text in story sequences (and spells to a lesser extent) can be hard to read, so Toggle Magnifier alieviates this. PQ doesn't support joystick input, but mouse controls and System functions can be mapped to Steam Input. Consider the community layout "Steam Deck Hybrid Mouse" for a layout that mitigate these issues.
An annoying graphical gltich appears when matching +5 Skull Gems or many Skull Gems but otherwise PQ works perfectly.
Cannot Successfully install required OpenAL
Program will not run without OpenAL installed within the wine prefix being utilized; indicates "Some Files Were in Use and you must reboot to finish installation."
I have tried to resolve by manually running oalinst.exe within the .../compatdata/12500/pfx via wine then utilizing wineboot and wineboot -r
Unable to locate a Winetricks install hack for OpenAL (or, at least not that I've seen manually browsing the GUI of winetricks within Apps or Windows components.)
Game only throws an application error 0x02 (likely due to missing dependencies)
Older versions of proton utilized to no change.
Runs great! Old school puzzle fun
This game is old, so I'm not sure if this is a windows problem too, but I can't create multiplayer games. Not a big deal to me personally
Performs better than on Windows 10, closer to the Win7 performance that I remember.
Minor artifacts when getting zapped from wildcards etc. but nothing that's disturbing overall gameplay so far. Performs better than on Windows 10, closer to the Win7 performance that I remember.
You may have to restart your system completely, as per the installer popup-- I didn't and was puzzled why it wouldn't even load at all at first, even swapped Proton versions around and nothing. But after rebooting everything worked fine with default settings for SteamPlay.
Perfectly playable
There were some slight graphical glitches that randomly occurred during animations. They didn't happen often and only for a split second. Gameplay was unaffected
Runs without issue
Unknown(< 1 hour with Proton)The game has a strange bug, where you can't change controls from gamepad to keyboard. Had to reinstall the game b/c of that. Proton 3.7.7 beta runs it perfectly, though (played for 20-30 min).
Unknown(< 1 hour with Proton)UnknownMinor graphical glitches with zapping effects in battles.
UnknownUnknownNo noticeable issues
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