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Takes a bit for the launcher to appear, but the game immediately boots beyond the launcher issue
FF3 Pixel Remaster is cool and all, but it is ridiculously bad as compared to the FF3 Old Ver and this 3D version. I recommend this version or the Old Ver over the PR version.
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 %command%
a bit of crackling of the sound
The crackling of sound can be fixed by using "PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 %command" (without the quotes).
I will install fedora and see if pipewire is able to fix this problem since it looks like the cause might be PULSE. After that, reedit the review
The inital launch of the game will take a long time after initial install and clicking the play button on the games launcher (took several minutes). However after this the game booted almost immediatly with no issues in the future.
On the first launch of the game audio did not work. I attempted using a few different versions of proton but none of them seemed to have audio. The fix I found was to just completly restart the Steam Deck. After that it had no issue using the default proton option.
Due note that the warning about cross platform cloud saves not being supported is real. There are several reports of people trying to open their save on their windows PC after playing on the Steam Deck and losing their whole saves on PC (not Steam Deck). I personally did not try to test this. Additionally I already had a save 60% through the game and I encountered no bugs what so ever in the final half of the game and assume the first half of the game works just as well.
I used "PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30", which didn't do anything. Instead, using "PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 %command%" actually fixed the crackling.
The game works just fine, besides the audio crackling.
People reported that PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 fixes this but it didn't for me. It seems that the crackling happens when the framerate dips from 30 FPS (which on this laptop happended occasionaly).
Played with Proton Experimental (based on 5.13-5).
Fixed with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 start option.
The mouse cursor is always visible in both regular and borderless fullscreen modes.
Worked out of the box but got the best performance with proton 5.0-10. Audio crackling is worst after startup, slowly improves as you play.
Minor audio crackling
1 crash in >30 hours of gameplay
Ensure your download region isn't Honolulu!
I tried everything: Clearing download cache, repairing the library folder, validating the install, all of it.. after changing my download region to Los Angeles, the game downloaded like a champ. I'd highly recommend Valve taking a look into this.. The only thing that happened was that the folder was made. File validation checks said that 1 file (the folder) is successful.
Runs perfect out of the box from start to finish
Worked great with my xbox 360 controller using xboxdrv
Finished the game entirely using Proton on 2560x1080 resolution
I have not yet tested post-game content (Iron Giant superboss), but I highly doubt that there will be significant problems at this point. Based on my experience, this game deserves a PLATINUM rating.
The minor issues I mentioned in my previous report seems to be gone as I have not observed them recently. Perhaps recent OS/Nvidia/Proton updates inadvertently addresses those issues.
There was one trivial issue I observed though. Sometimes when trying to close the launcher, Proton/Wine will spit out a "game is still running and you might lose progress" sort of warning even though I have already exited out of the actual game. I cannot reliably replicate this behavior, but I have not encountered data whenever that happens.
Works flawlessly as if it was native.
Installed it. Clicked Play. Everything is perfect, even my gamepad was configured perfectly by default.
Works great albeit with some incredibly minor issues
Sometimes there is very subtle crackling in the audio while selecting stuff in the character menu, and I seem to get them when I ALT-TAB too much. I cannot reliably reproduce it, and the crackling also disappears quickly.
The screen "tears" very seldomly, and it is visible as a horizontal black line that vanishes quickly. I only ever observed these "tears" to occur when moving in the overworld map.
Context
I am not sure whether or not the incredibly minor issues I observed are issues of the port itself. I have only played this game on Linux for a significant amount of time, and I have played up to the point where the gang is about to leave the 1st continent.
Other observations
SE already released a patch on March 24, 2020 which fixed the text overflow issue caused by the Feb 28, 2020 update. I have not encountered problems related to this so far.
1 - protontricks 239120 gdiplus corefonts 2 - protontricks 239120 regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes - Edit two values. MS Shell Dlg and MS Shell Dlg2 (Mine were all rdy there). I changed mine from Tahoma to something installed in my system, I chose "Noto Sans". Using Calibri still gave me blank boxes between each letter. Special Thanks to the previous users input. It actually works better than in windows 10 now because the text fits in the boxes and the sound isn't over saturated beyond 100%.
Unknown(> 10 hours with Proton)Indistinguishable from a native instance
Unknown(> 10 hours with Proton)Unknown(> 10 hours with Proton)Game ran perfectly for me from start until finish with no tweaks. The one issue I had occasionally is that my Xbox One controller dpad would get stuck in the menus and keep moving on its own. I'd have to press the dpad buttons to get it to stop. Not sure if that was a Proton issue or if the game had that problem even in Windows.
Unknown(> 10 hours with Proton)
Finished the game on linux. It loaded my cloud saves flawlessly. The game ran extremely smooth and I had no issues with it.
Just install and play. Issues: Audio sometimes gets choppy and the game launcher doesn't let you change gamepad button bindings.
Launcher opens Hitting launch, process tries to launch then crashes. Proton 3.7 & 3.16 Stable & Beta
Asked for a refund
Installed https://github.com/kozec/dumbxinputemu to get controller support working.
No sound. Otherwise game works fine. Fedora 29. Scarlett 6i6 soundcard.
UnknownWorks Great
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