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Trying to get Aliens versus Predator 2 running through Heroic on Steam Deck
Hi All, firstly I love the Heroic launcher, its my go to place for my non Steam games. I am currently tearing my hair out try to figure out how to get Aliens versus Predator 2 running through Heroic. Its an old game I know and is a DirectX 8 game. The installation that I am using is working fine on Windows 11 without DirectX 8 installed.
Basically I have the game setup and I get the launch UI, but when I click Play it just seems to crash. I attached a screenshot of the launch screen. I have tried various Proton versions including Proton-GE, Wine-GE and I am currently with Proton 8 from Valve. I guess the issue here is something with the DirectX but I am not sure, and this is still pretty new for me. I found a couple of things online where people got it working through Lutris and it was mentioned by one guy "Runner options’ tab and enable ‘dgvoodoo2" or another guy mentioned "Also, in Lutris options, tick the option to use old d3d rendering for old games". I am guessing this is something I can set in Heroic or Winetricks but I am not sure where, or maybe a variable I need to set. I have also attached a couple of logs from Heroic including the Proton log if that helps.
Please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks for your help in advance!!
Basically I have the game setup and I get the launch UI, but when I click Play it just seems to crash. I attached a screenshot of the launch screen. I have tried various Proton versions including Proton-GE, Wine-GE and I am currently with Proton 8 from Valve. I guess the issue here is something with the DirectX but I am not sure, and this is still pretty new for me. I found a couple of things online where people got it working through Lutris and it was mentioned by one guy "Runner options’ tab and enable ‘dgvoodoo2" or another guy mentioned "Also, in Lutris options, tick the option to use old d3d rendering for old games". I am guessing this is something I can set in Heroic or Winetricks but I am not sure where, or maybe a variable I need to set. I have also attached a couple of logs from Heroic including the Proton log if that helps.
Please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks for your help in advance!!
