UnknownUnknown
Missing end of speech
Menu was flickering
Crashing after 10 minutes
This game has a miriad of issues. Here's how you can make it playable:
1 - run it in a window, to fix mouse interactions
The game does not scale to fullscreen, running at 800x600 by default in the top left of a black void at our resolution. Worse, the touch interactions are offset to the right of the visuals. Running in a window will fix the mouse interactions. Use winecfg and use Emulate a virtual desktop. Doesn't matter if you give a bigger resolution, it always seems to force 800x600. I switched to wine and winecfg to play the game. If you want to try proton, I think you can set the prefix to the directory in steam. So for me using a flatpak version of steam that is..
Navigate to the game's prefix directory
cd /home/chris/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/785480/pfx/Start winecfg in this directoryenv WINEPREFIX=$PWD winecfg
2 - use a magnifier :(
Unfortunately this is why I didn't play on the steam deck. You can set the magnifier toggle to a button, but the mouse will now pan the entire window.
Instead I used my DE (gnome) to use a magnifier to 2.5 (at 1080p) and have the cursor push the content around. This lets me use the mouse while keeping the screen in the center.
3 - run it one cpu, to fix crashing
taskset -c 1 wine TI.EXE
I had trouble with the proton version and this taking affect, however you may set this after launch with pidof TI.EXE and taskset -cp 1 #####.
4 - run it on one cpu, to fix dialogue cutting off at the end of setences
Again, I had issue with this taking affect launching through steam, but taskset does fix audio cutoff.
5 - disable window decoration to fix flickering/crashing save dialog box
winecfg and disable Allow the window manager to decorate the windows and disable Allow the window manager to control the windows
taskset -c 0 %command%
Apply the community made bug fix patch from https://github.com/M3tox/TAOOT. This fixes bugs like low resolution textures and incorrect game pathing.
Keybinds: WAD for camera/movement, right trackpad for mouse, Esc for skipping dialogue/scenes, ctrl + F1 and ctrl + F2 will increase/decrease in-game brightness (brightness doesn't update until you move or interact).
The audio occasionally crackles. The dialogue audio sometimes cuts off before the character is done talking. Use the launch command listed above to fix this. The command forces the game to only use one CPU core.
There are multiple black screens throughout the game:
- After the Cyberflix intro. Position the cursor at the center of the screen and slowly move down. The cursor will turn into a hand icon at two spots. Click the first one to start the game or the second one to start the "tour" mode. Alternatively, pressing Esc also starts the game.
- Opening the Help menu. Move the cursor around the center until it turns into the hand icon and click. The black screen will go away, and the Help menu will appear.
- Various other black screens. Some interactable objects or scenes don't show up. Move the cursor around the lower right corner and click the hidden OK button or press Esc to exit the black screen.
The game settings (volume, subtitles, etc.) are reset each time the game is launched. There are some annoying game pathing bugs if the community patch isn't used.
Make sure to save your game in the SAVES folder for Steam Cloud to work.
Screen goes black afrer Cyberflix intro. If you place cursor in middle of screen game starts.
Only other issues which happens on windows is some of the voice overs stop mid sentence. Only work around on windows was to set CPU to 1
After the Cyberflix intro video, the screen goes black. Pressing escape allows you to continue.
UnknownThe game requires 256 colours and refuses to start.
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