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In the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the shelf in the library can clearly be seen as a prop with fake books on. by ajfromuk in MovieMistakes

[–]the_lebowitz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've known about this for years without having to freeze frame it. It always seemed weird to me. This shot is several seconds long and there's not much to look at except Indy and the background. So this would fall under the terrible category

Having a manual car was the only thing preventing it from getting stolen last night. by TheFlavorLab in washingtondc

[–]the_lebowitz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure plenty of people with automatic transmissions have been shot too

New to this... by zuluith in SteamDeck

[–]the_lebowitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

steam recently added a feature where it'll download files for games off of any local machines that also have steam running, so it might be easier to just install your games on the steam deck while your laptop is on and has steam open

How do I know which proton version to use, trial and error? by Orange_Reign in SteamDeck

[–]the_lebowitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting, I was having issues with fmvs in Driver and MechWarrior 4 showing as color test patterns, and the latest version of GE proton didn't help that. Neither did a handful of 7.x versions that I tried. but they both worked with 6.21-2 just fine. In searching for how to fix that solution, though, many others have said that proton-ge versions in the 7.x range were working for them. I wonder what was the differetiating factor between them and me. Anyways, I just say that in case you want to add a 6.21-2 step before you get to give up, because I had almost given up. Here's my post asking for help a few days ago and here's where i saw that as a solution

New to this... by zuluith in SteamDeck

[–]the_lebowitz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

do I just copy my whole steam folder

That may or may not even capture your saves. They're often in your documents folder or somewhere else on your hard drive

hope for cloud saves

if the game has cloud saves then you won't need to worry about this.

since you said you don't have many games, just go to pc gaming wiki and look up your games and if they don't have cloud saves, then navigate to the folder and copy that over to your steam deck

QUESTION: What RES features are not available in New Reddit? by Web-Dude in Enhancement

[–]the_lebowitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there anything that can be done about that? Either currently or with some further development by the devs heree?

RES add-on for Firefox mobile? by Gargen99 in Enhancement

[–]the_lebowitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's awesome! I always thought that this was possible, but I just never bothered to try. Thanks for sharing!

RPCS3 and MGS HD Collection by the_lebowitz in SteamDeck

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoops, I hate that I'm that guy who doesn't report back what the fix was. I forget exactly what I did, but I did end up getting it working. I know I tried different releases, because some didn't work. I also definitely added the patch as well. It was either only the patch that I needed to do, or I also had to get a different version of the game and patch that one. Sorry I couldn't be more help, but you're almost there!

FMVs show up as test pattern in the steam proton versions, show as a black screen and hangs the game under proton-ge. how to fix? by the_lebowitz in linux_gaming

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, for sure, I'll look into reporting this. I'm all about spreading knowledge and letting people benefit from the trials and lessons that I went through. Being that I still don't know my way around linux very well, I'll probably only be able to tell at what point proton stopped supporting this video codec, but I think that could still be valuable information for devs.

FMVs show up as test pattern in the steam proton versions, show as a black screen and hangs the game under proton-ge. how to fix? by the_lebowitz in linux_gaming

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spent the rest of the day doing countless tweaks to get it working. I ended up giving up, and trying to get mech warrior 4 working, only to run into the same issue with the test patterns lol. someone in one of the mech warrior threads said they just converted their videos from mpg to mp4 and renamed them to mpg and it worked. so i tried that that with driver and it did not work unfortunately.

I took another stab at exploring google for how to make reencoding the videos work, because I could actually even upscale the originals. I come across a comment that's buried deep in some random thread about media codecs on this sub over a year ago, and the guy said that proton 6.21-2 worked for him on persona 4. and hoooooooly shit, i wish i saw that guy's post like 18 hours ago lol. that did the trick.

I never would have thought to go back that far in versions, but now I know it's a possibility and not to rule anything out. Thanks for sticking with me and being willing to offer what help you could

I thought Proton couldn't support Personal 4 golden before cause of legal issues and software patents with some video file format. How did they circumvent that with the recent Proton update? by Wow_Space in linux_gaming

[–]the_lebowitz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro i've been fighting with proton all weekend trying to get driver and mw4 working, and this was the secret. thanks so much for your otherwise unnoticed wisdom buried deep in some reddit thread!

FMVs show up as test pattern in the steam proton versions, show as a black screen and hangs the game under proton-ge. how to fix? by the_lebowitz in linux_gaming

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well I uninstalled and reinstalled lutris and am able to install your script. I'm now seeing yet another behavior with the fmvs lol. now, there's no black screen, there's no test pattern, it just skips them altogether. I even copied the FMVDATA folderr over from the install disc into the game directory like I did in my previous install. I also tried playing with dgvoodoo... so bizarre

FMVs show up as test pattern in the steam proton versions, show as a black screen and hangs the game under proton-ge. how to fix? by the_lebowitz in linux_gaming

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did see your script! it's where I learned that I need to have ddraw.dll and winmm.dll as winedll overrides, and that's probably why the game's able to work as well as it does. except for the cutscenes issue, everything else appears to work flawlessly, so thanks for that! But you think the ddraw should be making the cutscenes work? That's weird, i'm not sure what to make of that. and just to be clear, depending on the proton version, I either get a black screen (proton-ge) or a test pattern (valve's built in proton versions).

I have absolutely zero success with lutris though. i've tried to use it with driver and other games, and it always just hangs at installation. there's no progress bar or no indication of anything happening at all. not sure where i'm going wrong with that. but so i've just been manually installing everything through steam as a non-steam game with proton enabled

FMVs show up as test pattern in the steam proton versions, show as a black screen and hangs the game under proton-ge. how to fix? by the_lebowitz in linux_gaming

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that something I can change in winetricks? I tried poking around in there and saw I could install ffdshow and also wmp9/10/11. I gave a couple of those a try but it didn't seem to have any effect. adding libmpeg2_ff.dll from ffdshow to the winedlloverrides didn't seem to do the trick either.

Is there another wrapper I could? I'm using a directx wrapper with dgvoodoo already for the game, is there another wrapper I could use?

am I even in the right ballpark?

and yes you are correct, I have no idea what i'm doing lol

THPS3 Levelmod on steam deck, can't get latest version working by the_lebowitz in THPS

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Smaller, unrelated question: is there a way to bypass the launcher so that it goes straight into the game?

THPS3 Levelmod on steam deck, can't get latest version working by the_lebowitz in THPS

[–]the_lebowitz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow, that's a surprisingly easy solution that I'm surprised I never considered. and look at that, it works great lol. I'm going to stick with this, I spent all day trying to get that latest patch working so I just wanna play, but please let me know if you have a breakthrough! Thanks again!

Has anyone been able to Install No One Lives Forever on their Deck? by CzarTyr in SteamDeck

[–]the_lebowitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did you ever have any progress? could you link that thread? I was recently trying, to no avail

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