"Outer Worlds" on Steam Deck - cutscenes show black

hello! having some trouble getting The Outer Worlds working properly on my Steam Deck OLED. no matter which settings i toggle or which version of Proton i try, the cutscenes do not work properly and only show a black screen. i would like to fix this if possible.

i found this reddit post which describes my exact problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/vsuyf0/cutscenes_not_working_on_outer_worlds_through/
someone suggested using GE-Proton7-17 to run the game, but sadly i can't find that version in Heroic's download list. (maybe because it's too old?)

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dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 7:18 PM

truth of the matter, its frequent for game devs to use codecs that dont have linux portability for their in game cutscenes.. This is especially true if they use something like windows media foundation or related things...so ultimately this means some games just simply wont have movies in linux.. this can be game breaking for some games, and ok in others.. but its up to the game devs to encode video in formats that are actually portable.

Best anyone can do is ensure they have the latest gstreamer packages installed for their systems.. which iirc steam deck is usually pretty on top of... and a wine install that has the support enabled for as many codecs as possible.. which usually GE wines are pretty good at

dead-brownOP•12/12/23, 7:19 PM

any possible way to install GE-Proton7-17, as suggested in the Reddit post?

dead-brownOP•12/12/23, 7:21 PM

oldest version i can see in Wine Manager is 7-33

awake-maroon•12/12/23, 7:22 PM

you can try setting this option on preferSystemLibs, it fixes videos for some games

dead-brownOP•12/12/23, 7:24 PM

where can i change this setting?

awake-maroon•12/12/23, 7:27 PM

should be somewhere in the game's settings in heroic

I don't remember if the option is always there of if it's hidden for proton-ge (maybe you need to change to wine-ge)

dead-brownOP•12/12/23, 7:29 PM

holy crap. i switched to Wine GE and turned on that option and it worked!! thanks so much!

dead-brownOP•12/12/23, 7:30 PM

cutscenes are working!

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 7:30 PM

wine-ge latest is usually the way to go in heroic

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 7:30 PM

glad that works!

dead-brownOP•12/12/23, 7:30 PM

noted!! i was usually picking Proton GE

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 7:44 PM

i usually go for proton-ge if it fixes a problem wine-ge doesnt handle.. there are only a few games ive encountered that needed proton itself to work

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 8:40 PM

mp4 is just a container, it can carry a range of videos encoded with various encoders.. so i can see a world where some mp4 movies would play and some wont, depending on the gstreamer packed in flatpak versions

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 8:40 PM

personally i dont use a flatpak heroic so i never had this issue hah

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 8:42 PM

still, there are some videos encoded with codecs that just dont play in linux (some windows proprietary codecs come to mind) so unless they have a reverse engineered open codec i know that some games just have movies that wont play.. and for some of them, this is a fatal step and the game crashes.

dry-scarlet•12/12/23, 9:56 PM

yeah to be clear im not arguing anything here. Just stating that there are going to be some games, mainly older ones, that will have codec issues, and might even crash due to that.. and there's not much that can be done in those specific cases

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