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Knights and Merchants

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Deck Verified Status

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Chromebook Ready Status

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DanO(1 report)

DanO (1 report)

1 year ago

Great old RTS, even better with KAM Remake.

1 year ago

Tinker Steps:Switch to older version: 5.13-6, winetricks

For anyone out there that sees this post, I was able to figure out how to install and run KAM Remake on my Steam Deck.

Firstly, go into desktop mode on your Steam Deck. Next you have to install Wine through the Discover Software Center. Next you need to buy the game off GOG.com and download it with the standalone installer, not the version with GOG Galaxy. Then install the exe using Wine. It will fully install the way it would on Windows.

Next, download the KAM Remake install exe. Once it’s downloaded install it with Wine the same way you installed the original game. Now you’ll want to add it to Steam as a non-steam game. In Steam go to “Games > Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library” and click Browse. My KaM_Remake.exe was located here:

/home/deck/.var/app/org.winehq.Wine/data/wine/drive_c/KaM Remake

It may vary for you but it should be very similar. Once it’s in your library click on the cog icon then Properties. Go to the Compatibility tab and click “Force the use of a specific Stea

Control Layout:Switch To Gamepad With Mouse Trackpad

Control Layout Customization:Other

Changed right click and left click.

Windowing:Other

Had to manually enable full screen in the game settings.

I would recommend installing it the way I described, that way you can also use the KAM Remake which fixes many old bugs and adds many new QOL features.

Proton 5.13-6

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

DanO(1 report)

Proton 5.13-6

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

AlexS(697 reports)

1 hour overall1 hour on Linux

AlexS (697 reports)

1 hour overall1 hour on Linux

3 years ago

Work good

3 years ago

Tinker Steps:Switch to older version: 5.13-6, Set launch options

PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

Windowing:Other

Game (classic) has no window mode only fullscreen.

Played with Proton 5.13-6 and params PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

Version for Linux is not working.

HD version has only English language.

Proton 5.13-6

Distro:ROSA Fresh Desktop 12.2, platform 2021.1 (64 бит)

Kernel:5.10.118-generic-2rosa2021.1-x86_64

RAM:12 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 21.2.4

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.118-generic-2rosa2021.1-x86_64, LLVM 12.0.1)

CPU:Intel Core i5-3470S @ 2.90GHz

AlexS(697 reports)

1 hour overall1 hour on Linux

Proton 5.13-6

Distro:ROSA Fresh Desktop 12.2, platform 2021.1 (64 бит)

Kernel:5.10.118-generic-2rosa2021.1-x86_64

RAM:12 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 21.2.4

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.118-generic-2rosa2021.1-x86_64, LLVM 12.0.1)

CPU:Intel Core i5-3470S @ 2.90GHz

Beanow(4 reports)

1 hour overall1 hour on Linux

Beanow (4 reports)

1 hour overall1 hour on Linux

3 years ago

Bring your own Wine, and use KaM_Remake.exe

3 years ago

Tinker Steps:Launcher: bottles, Custom Proton: wine-7.7 / caffe-7.7

Windowing:Other

Classic game renders in the top-left, rest of the screen is black. KaM Remake runs great.

Instability:Occasionally

Classic game has occasional crashes, KaM Remake runs great.

So the "native" Linux game ships the Classic game (with expansions) and a community mod, KaM Remake. Both are Windows exe's and it bundles a wine version + helper scripts.

Neither this "native" bundled Wine version, nor forcing the Windows version to be downloaded and running Proton through steam worked well for me. It had regular crashes and bugs.

But! KaM Remake fixes some of those bugs, and adds some quality of life features. The only issue is the bundled Wine didn't run (at all) on my system.

Using either system wine-7.7 from my distro's package manager, or using Bottles, both Classic (bugs included) and KaM Remake run well. I've played a few campaings on KaM Remake as the quality of life features make a huge difference.

TL;DR

Install wine through your system package manager, then:

wine  <path-to>/Steam/steamapps/common/Knights\ and\ Merchants\ Historical\ Version/Game/KAMRemake/KaM_Remake.exe

Custom Proton: wine-7.7 / caffe-7.7

Distro:Manjaro Linux

Kernel:5.13.19-2-MANJARO

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.3

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (sienna_cichlid, LLVM 13.0.1, DRM 3.41, 5.13.19-2-MANJARO)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

Beanow(4 reports)

1 hour overall1 hour on Linux

Custom Proton: wine-7.7 / caffe-7.7

Distro:Manjaro Linux

Kernel:5.13.19-2-MANJARO

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.3

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (sienna_cichlid, LLVM 13.0.1, DRM 3.41, 5.13.19-2-MANJARO)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

Disassembler(41 reports)

Disassembler (41 reports)

3 years ago

Native version doesn't work at all, forcing Proton works perfectly

3 years ago

Proton 6.3-7

Disassembler(41 reports)

Proton 6.3-7

Herr Orange(53 reports)

< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)

Herr Orange (53 reports)

< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)

4 years ago

Use proton for this title

4 years ago

Native version does not work, all options fails to start, however if Proton is forced, it works just fine

Proton 5.13-6

Distro:Fedora 34 KDE Spin

Kernel:5.11.10-300.fc34.x86_64

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 21.0.1

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10, DRM 3.40.0, 5.11.10-300.fc34.x86_64, LLVM 12.0.0)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

Herr Orange(53 reports)

< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)

Proton 5.13-6

Distro:Fedora 34 KDE Spin

Kernel:5.11.10-300.fc34.x86_64

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 21.0.1

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10, DRM 3.40.0, 5.11.10-300.fc34.x86_64, LLVM 12.0.0)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

oldrocker99(35 reports)

oldrocker99 (35 reports)

4 years ago

I used the Preferences to start the game with Proton 5, and it downloaded the Windows version and ran perfectly.

4 years ago

Proton 5.13-2

oldrocker99(35 reports)

Proton 5.13-2

Asti1992(33 reports)

Asti1992 (33 reports)

5 years ago

Old version unplayable - graphical artifacts, huge lags, can't exit normally

5 years ago

Graphics:Heavy Artifacts, Missing Textures

Windowing:Size, Switching

Input:Lag

Performance:Significant Performance Problems

Proton 5.0-9

Asti1992(33 reports)

Proton 5.0-9