Taffer87 on 29/8/2024 at 21:51
Greetings,
So, the steamdeck and others like ROG Ally are amazing to play thief on. You can get insaine battery life.
Currently, Deadly shadows community Sneaky Patch will not work because it requires registry entries and so on. Which means its a no go on linux.
We need to fix this.. infact i think that all the games I, II and III should see a new install package put together that works completely fine on linux and includes everything from Tfix to the sound enhancments to the HD texture mods all in one.
But ill settle for the issue with Deadly shadows patch not working on steam OS or linux being know. Hopefully something can be done because Thief on these hand helds is awesome!
snobel on 30/8/2024 at 08:40
What is the problem with the Sneaky Upgrade? The registry keys should exist in a Wine/Proton environment, as long as you've run the game immediately before installing the SU.
I don't have a Steam device, so I can't test there - is there a distro which behaves like the Deck but can be installed on an ordinary PC?
shade on 23/9/2024 at 05:21
Quote Posted by snobel
I don't have a Steam device, so I can't test there - is there a distro which behaves like the Deck but can be installed on an ordinary PC?
I believe Steam Deck runs a modified fork of Arch Linux, with Proton? There's a page on the ArchWiki for running Steam that links to Proton as well, (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam). Hopefully that helps!
Kerrle on 6/10/2024 at 02:07
Quote Posted by Taffer87
Currently, Deadly shadows community Sneaky Patch will not work because it requires registry entries and so on. Which means its a no go on linux.
Are you sure? Wine has supported registry editing for years. I've played the patch on Linux before.
I'll go ahead and install the Sneaky Upgrade right now and report back.
Kerrle on 6/10/2024 at 02:08
Quote Posted by shade
I believe Steam Deck runs a modified fork of Arch Linux, with Proton?
It does, but it's very different than a standard arch install. Bazzite or ChimeraOS would be the best options for a Steamdeck-like experience on a PC.
Kerrle on 6/10/2024 at 02:31
So, I ran the Sneaky Upgrade installer by adding it to Steam as a non-steam game and telling it to run with Proton Experimental in 'manage game':
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/W8SsAOG.pngIt worked, though I did have to manually specify the full path to my Thief 3 install.
I told it to always launch FMsel, and:
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/EMtkNRK.pngIt should be the same on the Deck. I can try it if you like, but I was already on my main computer, which is in linux, so I did it there.
But I followed the same procedure I do to patch games on the Deck.
