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"-interline"
At one point during the intro, the audio got very loud. for a good 5 or 6 seconds. I had to turn the volume down. After that, the audio went back to normal.
gamescope -f %command%
Install and run with gamescope - as per launch options - to fix cutscene/video playback issues (for Debian or other Debian-based distributions, you can install package version 3.15.3-1 from Debian's experimental repository - https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gamescope).
If not using gamescope, no other issues besides cutscene playback occur. The issue with cutscene playback is also known to similarly occur on modern Windows systems.
Gameplay seems to work okay once you get into a level. Cutscenes are very glitchy though.
Cutscene audio would glitch out and loop
Cutscenes would glitch out
-interline
Без записи параметра -interline в сыойства ролики в игре очень сильно томозили. При игре с параметром -interline проблем не было. Игра пройдена.
gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -f %command%
You need to go install gamescope somehow, Steam deck users just have it I think, I found an apt ppa, and arch users no doubt have an AUR package they can use but anyway you add the launch options and the game instantly works. My settings reflect a 1440p main display, you may need to change yours to whatever resolution your monitor is!
If you don't use gamescope, Oddysee doesn't really work. The old strategy of -interlace helps but just use gamescope, please.
Videos run at half a frame per second and the intro alone will take you a good 5-10 mins to wait through
Videos run at 0.5 FPS
Menu (Start) and View (Back) buttons are not recognized by the game and should be remapped as the Enter and Escape keys
Need to remap buttons in the in-game settings for them to work correctly
-interline
Videos played choppy, but regular gameplay was fine.
Proton GE 6.21-GE-2 GloriousEggroll
Used xrandr --size 640x480 && %command% && xrandr --size 1440x900 - to fit the resolution of my screen.
Game seems to react to keyboard with a slight delay.
As explained in the forum https://www.protondb.com/app/15700
Black horizontal lines and broken story videos
Once the wine prefix has been applied the game starts in full screen but only the story videos play correctly. The game itself is displayed in a 640x480 area (non windowed). The full screen video stays in background.
I tried the wineprefix and it solves the issue with the rows but the game is played in a corner of my screen above the story videos that are played fullscreen. Very confused look. The "-interline" solution at least was more playable.
Horizontal lines, story videos are broken without the fixes.
Using the wineprefix as suggested in the forum the black lines disappear but the game opens with intro videos in fullscreen but then the play area gets reduced to an area of 640x480 each time that a video ends (not windowed, still in fullscreen mode). But the last frame of the video remains as background and the whole thing is ugly.
I posted a link to the installer and steamcommunity video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNy393isKOQ&feature=youtu.be
Image will be stretched to fit the screen. Windowed mode only as virtual desktop.
Unknown(an hour with Proton)Works with -interline options like all said
Unknown(an hour with Proton)Unknown(< 1 hour with Proton)I used the virtual desktop setting of 640x480 (as described in earlier comments) but additionally set the launch options as follows;
"xrandr --size 640x480 && %command% && xrandr --size 1920x1080".
If you are using X, this will set the screen size to match the virtual desktop setting prior to launch and set it back again afterwards (if your native/preferred screen size isn't 1920x1080 then adjust the command above to suit). This has the effect of running the game fullscreen. There is probably some Wayland equivalent but it may be more involved.
Rated silver because cut-scenes aren't running smoothly on my system. They are good enough to be watchable and better than running the game without any tweaks but not as good as they ought to be (or, in fact as they are on the same system with the -interline option). The rest of the game appears to work well with the above settings on this system, although I haven't played much of it at this point.
Unknown(< 1 hour with Proton)
The game runs fine but the cut-scenes don't work. Like others have suggested, either use "-interline" as launch option or configure the prefix to use a 640x480 virtual desktop. I tried both, the virtual desktop solution is better but still not optimal.
Very slow playback of videos. Can be worked around with launch option '-interline' but that causes rows of small black bars across the screen. It makes the game playable, but ugly.
Working with "-interline" launch option.
You can get this running easily using two different methods. You can use "-interline" as a launch option, or you can manually change a WINE setting so it will emulate a virtual desktop at 640x480. Using "-interline" as a launch option will put ugly horizontal black bars all over the screen, making the game darker and UNdebatably decreasing the picture quality. (Injecting black bars into pretty much any picture will make it look worse. There is no debate here.) The upside is you get to run the game fullscreen, and that's the only advantage to using "-interline". The second option, the virtual desktop method, gives better picture quality but you'll be running it in a 640x480 window. I think the virtual desktop method works better because there's a 30fps cap on Oddessy and Exoddus anyways, so that combined with the blackbars makes fullscreen look like crap. To emulate a virtual desktop, open a terminal and type "WINEPREFIX="/your/path/to/your/SteamApps/compatdata/15700/pfx/" winecfg" all one command, without the outside quotes, but keep the inside if you have any spaces in your path. For example: WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.steam/SteamApps/compatdata/15700/pfx" winecfg. In the new window, switch over to the graphics tab, put a checkmark in the box next to "emulate a virtual desktop" and change 800x600 to 640x480. Then click apply and ok, and run the game. From there, it will run perfectly. Note: If you increase the size of the virtual desktop, AbeWin.exe will automatically resize it back down to 640x480, so a larger virtual desktop won't help you. In addition to that, if you click the mouse while using a larger resolution, AbeWin.exe will crash and you will have to kill it manually. So you still need to set the virtual desktop resolution to 640x480. Outside of that, it runs perfectly. :)
use "-interline" (without comets)
works with the launch option -interline
Unknown(< 1 hour with Proton)The launch option "-interline" solve the cutscene problem. Note that launch option makes every other line blacked out.
Unknown(< 1 hour with Proton)
use launch option -interline to solve cutscene problems
add "-interline" launch option and the game works perfectly
Unknown(an hour with Proton)Slow videos unless using -interline option, however this also introduces black lines every other line during gameplay which are quite ugly.
Unknown(an hour with Proton)use "-interline" (without comets) in launch option to solve cutscene problems
The entire game runs flawlessly. The only issue is that the cut sequences run with a very low FPS. They are still watchable, but the experience is janky.
Unknown(< 15 minutes with Proton)Works, but display resolution is really low, but not a Proton fault I guess
Unknown(< 15 minutes with Proton)
Add the launch option "-interline".
use "-interline" (without comets) in launch option to solve cutscene problems
Right click on the game title, go to properties, and you should be under the general tab. Then click "set launch options" and enter -interline in the dialogue box. This will remove the skipping in the full motion videos that are shown. However, the consequence is that every other horizontal pixel row is filled with black pixels. Whether this can be perceived as a quality loss however is debatable. There is already an interlace like look to the game anyway. The resolution is quite poor due to its age and this interlacing effect could be considered an enhancement and more accurate because when this game was released, display technology at the time used interlacing. It seems the interlacing effect makes the game also sharper compared to rendering the game without -interline.
So therefore I am rating this game Gold.
Adding "-interline" without quotes as a launch options fixes the choppy video playback. Everything else runs fine so far.
UnknownClips are laggy
UnknownUnknownVideos are like a slideshow and the game is very jerky and laggy in some spots
UnknownUnknownIt's perfect
UnknownUnknownThe game launches but slows to a crawl once the opening videos start.
UnknownUnknownGameplay is fine, but the cut scenes and intro's are badly messed up (both video and audio) making them unwatchable.
UnknownUnknowncutscenes slowdown,otherwise all work fine.
Unknown
