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I followed the report of Tomast1337, but had to rephrase to make it work:
for f in *.wma ; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%.wma}.mp3" ; done;
rm ./*.wma
for f in *.mp3 ; do mv "$f" "${f%.mp3}.wma" ; done;
The game crashes when switching focus to another application in fullscreen mode but not in windowed mode (max resolution is 1920x1080 and you can't turn off window decorations, so windowed mode isn't ideal unfortunately)
My fix so far: Play the game in fullscreen, before switching to other apps, turn fullscreen off, when back in RCT3, turn fullscreen back on.
GNOME 42.9
Keyboard input didn't work initially (except, weirdly, to type in text fields).
I turned Steam controller support off.
When experimenting with fullscreen mode, I realized keyboard inputs started working when turning fullscreen mode off and keyboard input kept working when turning fullscreen mode back on.
Music requires a fix and if you play with mouse only, the keyboard issue might not be that big of a deal, but I expect most people would like to use the keyboard for camera controls etc.
The game runs at 90%. I converted the audio files like everyone else, and after that, the sound works without any issues. Not being able to
Proton_9.0_3
I converted the audio files like everyone else here. After that, it worked without any issues.
I can’t get the resolution to fullscreen (3440 x 1440). It always worked fine on Windows, but I haven’t found a solution for it on Linux yet.
I can’t get the resolution to fullscreen (3440 x 1440). It always worked fine on Windows, but I haven’t found a solution for it on Linux yet.
My keyboard is recognized, and I can, for example, change and type in the names of visitors. However, I can't move the camera with WASD, which is quite annoying.
Purchased through GOG. Runs OOTB through Heroic Games Launcher using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64.
Runs mostly OOTB through Steam using GE-Proton9-16 after converting music files to mp3 format.
In both options, the keyboard input was not picked up in game. ALT-Tabing out and back in fixed the issue for both.
Running through Steam the .wma file format would not play. Converting to .mp3 fixed the issue.
Keyboard not detected initally. ALT-Tabing out and back in fixed the issue.
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
did a lot of digging for potential causes of the audio problems, using proton-ge 6-21 fixes them, and disabling dxvk fixes input, do there you go, RCT3 at long last playable on the go!
Proton Experimental
Changing left trackpad button
Keyboard remapping not detected
Tried to rebind keyboard commands to Steam Deck ones in controller settings (Such as the Shift key with the rear buttons and left touch pad for example) and they refuse to work in either modes, making features like elevating object placements impossible. Music is also completely messed up, they need to be converted and replaced with mp4's then rdnamed back to wma to fix those. UI scale options are non-existant and in-game options also refuse to be changed as few as there are. No performance issues from what I was able tell but it could still occasionally crash or freeze up.
MP3/WMA file name issue Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Kernel 6.2.0-1018 Lowlatency)
Had the same video issue as everyone else where a video window popped up and took priority. Applied the same fix as listed by Tomast1337, except the script didn't work on all of the files on account of the majority of file names having both spaces and single quotes (') at the start and end. (My file rename/parsing skills are not strong)
There were some files that did not have spaces or quotes and for those this worked fine.
Had to do file conversions manually by doing ffmpeg -i and mv on each one using autocomplete. One of the filenames was in double quotes: "JJ's House.wma".
I had the issue that others reported where it becomes a small window (with title "ActiveMovie Window") and becomes unplayable. You can switch away from the small window to the main game to see it again, but it's stuttery and will randomly switch you back to the small window.
I fixed it by doing the wma -> mp3 rename fix for the background music. My guess is that the the little window is the game failing to play the wma files. Every time it plays it, it'll spawn a window. So presumably any of the other background music fixes should also work.
Game works good now. Would recommend emulating the Switch Version instead of playing the Steam version, but the Steam Version works great.
converted all the wma files in the music folder to mp3 then renamed them to wma files to fix the music issue.
You need to change all the .wma files in the music folder to .mp3 and then add back the .wma at the end. Easiest way to do it is this: https://www.makeuseof.com/batch-rename-files-in-linux/ (rename) so you don't have to rename every single file by yourself.
Read fix provided
Does not work using the default config
Opening the workspace display causes the game to shrink to to the top left side of the display. It's too small to operate the menu, which forces me to close the game without saving.
I doubt that everyone enjoys RCT3 as much as the other guy, but hey. It works for your entertainment.
Recommended that you convert Music folder with WMA files to MP3, and then renaming the MP3 with WMA.
When in windowed, it has a very noticeable fps drop.
Keyboard inputs are not being registered for some reason.
When in windowed, it has a very noticeable fps drop.
Game works, crap music format, keyboard inputs not being registered. It works. A bit.
converted all the wma files in the music folder to mp3 then renamed them to wma files to fix an issue with music
converted all the wma files in the music folder to mp3 then renamed them to wma files to fix the music issue.
Inputs mapped to Keyboard do not work. Inputs mapped to Mouse work fine though.
Install these winetricks verbs: vcrun2003 corefonts directx9 xact faudio
Massive mouse input stuttering
Installing winetrick verbs fixes no music issue. Mouse input stuttering was fixed by reducing mouse polling rate from 1000 Hz to 125 Hz. I have Steelseries Rival gaming mouse and used rivalcfg app to change it.
Especially the music sounds weird/corrupted always, game sounds seem to be mostly ok
Some stuttering when moving around in a level, could also be shader-compilation related stuttering or stuttering from geometry loading in
Audio issues happens also when using Proton Experimental. Game runs fine for the rest apart from some heavy stutters sometimes when moving around the map.
Go to the steamapps folder where the game is installed. Download VLC or something similar that is capable of converting .wma files to .mp3 files. Copy all the original music .wma files from the Music folder so some place safe. Convert them all to .mp3 using the software you like to use. Rename the file extension from .mp3 to .wma. Put them back in the music folder and music should work perfectly fine.
Great game, the music is a must for the ultimate experience. The music fix is straightforward that takes 5 minutes of your time
The music is a rather large part of the experience, a lot of people would probably dislike it missing
Music was heavily distorted, probably because of missing wma support
Runs basically like on windows except that the music doesn't work due to lack of WMA support.
In-game music is missing, also experienced some chiptune-sounding crackling. Recommend putting on your own tunes in another window, or looking up the OST on YouTube.
Saved coaster designs are stored in this game's compatdata folder. Can be found at ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1368820/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/RCT3/Coasters if installed in default library location.
Was able to test the peep creator and do some minor fiddling in a Sandbox map. Everything seems good and feels like it did in the Windows XP era (minus the lack of music), but there's a lot of the game that I wasn't able to test due to time constraints.
(Also, fans of OpenRCT2 will be disappointed to hear that the cheap Corkscrew Coaster design doesn't work in this game. But Marcel Vos' "Junior Cheap" design is still a great early-scenario money printer!)
Unplayable due to window focus issues
Sound effects play but music did not work
Audio files launched in a second window removing fullscreen focus from the game
When running the game ActiveMovie Windows repeadedly opened removing focus from the game window. This made it impossible to play as the game kept minimizing.
No music plays, but the other sounds are fine.
The music from both the menu as well as the logo's is distored (likely due to the lack of wma support). Howerver you start a game it flickers between the game and a test screen until the steam deck just restarts. Same happens to the original platinum edition (no longer available for purchase)
Game runs perfectly other than background music issues
Background music distorted and crackles, can be set to 0%
I used protontricks quartz to try to get music working, by default playing music would either crash the game or do nothing. With quartz it didn't crash but the music sounded crunchy/corrupted.
Music only
Enabling fullscreen made one of my other monitors go half black.
Crashed frequently without quartz
The game installs and launches just fine, but it stutters heavily whenever i try and move the camera around
music is missing
the game stutters heavily whenever i move the camera around
The game works perfectly out of the box, except for the music. To make the music work you'll need to make a number of steps. You'll need to install two packages lib32-gst-plugins-ugly and lib32-gst-libav. These are the package names in the AUR, your distro may have different names.
It's worth noting that these packages need to be compiled, and they didn't work for me when I compiled them myself, instead I had to use the chaotic-aur mirror which had these pre-compiled. You can check if they got installed with yay -Q | grep gst.
Then install quartz on the game's prefix. You can use protontricks to install it like so: protontricks 1368820 quartz. You can use winetricks too, you'll need to locate where the prefix is. On Steam it's ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1368820. Once found just run WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix/ winetricks quartz.
And that's it, now the game fully works, music included.
Music didn't work, I included instructions on how to fix this.
Music doesn't appear to play, everything else works fine.
I ran this on Epic Games via the Lutris launcher.
No music? I'm not sure if there is supposed to be music. Other sounds work fine
I used the Epic Games version (using legendary) with the latest WINE, works perfectly fine
