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Help me with Kingdom Hearts on the Steam Deck! (What does this mean?)

Does anyone know how to do what this post says? I have horrible audio crackling and this is the fix many people have told me about, I dont know how to do this tho, I have the heroic launcher downloaded but the next steps are very confusing to me

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CommandMC•6mo ago

Hm, those steps are odd. If you only want Winetricks, just use Protontricks (so install Protontricks, launch it and select the game, and then continue from "Select the default Wineprefix")

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

So, im like an imbecile when it comes to tech and computers, if i do that i would be able to add the Xaudio29? I dont really understand but i think thats what would fix my audio problem

CommandMC•6mo ago

Yes. From the point you have Winetricks opened (which is the "white box" the post is talking about), everything should work as described above

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

english is also not my first language, do you understand what this means?

CommandMC•6mo ago

Well, as the message says, copy the command written there and run it in the terminal

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

cuz i dont see KH in proton, im assuming cuz i have it on my SD really dumb question, whats the terminal

CommandMC•6mo ago

"Konsole" in your application list In case you've ever used CMD/PowerShell on Windows, it's that but on Linux

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

okay, so i now im in the winetricks thingy in the KH 1.5 game how do i do the next steps? for the xaudio29 thing

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

this is what i see

CommandMC•6mo ago

"Select the default wineprefix" -> "Install a Windows DLL or component" -> Scroll down and tick "xaudio29" and select "OK" -> Wait

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

What if I don’t see xaudio29

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

2 questions: 1. is this for KH on Epic (and Heroic)? and 2. are you using Winetricks or Protontricks?

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

I am now using proton tricks for this This is KH 1.5 for steam On my steam deck

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

I don't understand why Heroic comes in to play at all then

CommandMC•6mo ago

It doesn't, it's just what the guide above used You don't need it to do this actually

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

I guess maybe because the Winetricks in Heroic might be newer than the one rewrapped by the Protontricks flatpak?

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

The OP just found that this was a way to add xaudio29 to the game file on steam deck

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

because the xaudio29 verb is newer

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Which is why I need Does protontrick not have audio29 Cuz I don’t see it listed

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

I don't know. I'm just trying to come up with reasons why this convoluted solution is the way it is

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

This is all I see under X

CommandMC•6mo ago

You can probably convince it to use a newer Winetricks. Looking into that right now To be clear, Protontricks is just the thing at the start that gives you a game selection. After you select a game, it runs Winetricks on that game's prefix (and with that game's compatibility tool set in Steam) Now Protontricks probably comes with its own Winetricks version, and that might be outdated

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

the readme indicates

If you'd like to use a local version of Winetricks, you can set $WINETRICKS to the location of your local winetricks installation.

and winetricks itself is a script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks so maybe that could work it almost always is outdated

CommandMC•6mo ago

Got it Paste these commands one after the other into the terminal:

flatpak run --command=bash com.github.Matoking.protontricks

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

chmod +x winetricks

WINETRICKS=$PWD/winetricks protontricks

flatpak run --command=bash com.github.Matoking.protontricks

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

chmod +x winetricks

WINETRICKS=$PWD/winetricks protontricks

Winetricks will yell at you a bit, but it seems to work (at least xaudio29 is listed, didn't test further)

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

not sure where the first command ends and the other starts sorry, i dont wanna mess it up oh, its.. 4 commands?

CommandMC•6mo ago

I've added extra line breaks between the commands Here's a screenshot of the full-size message if that helps:

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

do i type a command, hit enter to apply and then type the next one?

CommandMC•6mo ago

Yes

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

you can copy and paste for convenience as well

CommandMC•6mo ago

Your terminal prompt should change after the first command (should have a 📦 icon at the start)

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

not sure how to do that from my steam deck

CommandMC•6mo ago

Are you currently on a PC?

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

im on both my pc and deck right now i also have my phone

CommandMC•6mo ago

Right, install Anydesk on both, then connect to the SD from your PC

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

im assuming i did something wrong

CommandMC•6mo ago

Forgot a wget at the start of command 2 Let's install Anydesk first, it'll make your life a lot easier even beyond this

fair-rose•6mo ago

the second command begins with wget

CommandMC•6mo ago

On the Steam Deck side, just search for Anydesk in your software center (Discover) and install it On your PC (I assume it runs Windows), download the installer from https://download.anydesk.com/AnyDesk.exe Then just open it on both devices, punch in the ID shown on the Deck into the PC, and connect

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Did I do the thing right

CommandMC•6mo ago

Yeah those are fine

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

so what do i do now? it opened winetricks and i see xaudio29 now

CommandMC•6mo ago

Select/tick it, then click "OK" at the bottom, and wait

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

done is it now installed then?

fair-rose•6mo ago

should be, yeah only one way to know if it worked

CommandMC•6mo ago

It's installing it. Once the Winetricks window pops up again, it's done installing. Then you just hit "Cancel" a few times to quit out of it, and type "exit" in the terminal to exit

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

okay, fingers crossed nope

fair-rose•6mo ago

new log please

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Wait So Update, the menu song still has crackling But the game itself seems to be fixed ?? I did test before and even when entering the game I’d get crackling I seem to be crackling free during the actual game now

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

last time I had crackling, I just added PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=50 to my environment variables (in my case SF6 on Steam)

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

So did I apply Audio29 to every game I own or just KH

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

depends if the xaudio29 dll is real or placebo

CommandMC•6mo ago

I am quite confused as to how that option does anything at all, considering it just adds a DLL file the game probably doesn't care about If this was 2 years ago, I'd have suspected some PulseAudio crap, but I'm pretty sure the Deck is on Pipewire already

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

You mean the xaudio29 solution ? Also I wanna add, there’s still crackling in the main menu of the game but when I use my headset the crackling is gone

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

yes I would approach the cracking problem two ways: first the easy way is to see if that environment variable works. might, might not. then, the next approach is to make a new pipewire config

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/14rghc5/solution_crackly_audio_while_gaming_w_pipewire/ similar to this

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xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Is it not weird that the crackling only happens when I use the deck speakers ? On my headset the crackling is gone in that menu

fair-rose•6mo ago

they use different profiles, so it could still be the profile solution

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

How do I check the steam deck speaker profile ?

fair-rose•6mo ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ follow the guide term posted?

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

I'm still waiting to be told the variable didn't work

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Environment viarable ? I don’t even understand what that is I did add this command but it didn’t fix the audio cracklin in the menu

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

if you don't understand what it is, where did you add it to? because it's not a command

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Uh well To the launch options ? Of the game

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

I thought that’s what I was supposed to do

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

add %command% to the end of that

CommandMC•6mo ago

That's correct, but you have to add the whole thing

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Also this is how the menu sounds like

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Alright

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Like this or do I get rid of the space ?

fair-rose•6mo ago

space there is correct

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

while that's going, the %command% alias is all the fun stuff that Steam executes to run the game. putting it in means the additional environment variable gets added before the game is run. if you don't include it, the variable gets added to the end of the command, which won't have any function

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

I still hear some weird audio, also I noted that it’s only trough the left speaker of the deck

CommandMC•6mo ago

Are you sure this is a game issue? Can you play some sort of test sound, or perhaps a YouTube video or something, to make sure it isn't hardware?

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

I do wanna add that the steam deck is brand new and a friend of mine also has the same issue so it’s not like the speaker is damaged or something Also I haven’t had this issue with any other game

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

if the in-game audio works, I'd just move on. I used to have to use that variable for 6 months on my desktop for SF6 and then I just didn't need to anymore I tested it every few days by running the game without it to see how it works then enabled it again

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

No crackling at all in other games

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

sometimes individual games don't play nice with pulse/pipewire

xenial-blackOP•6mo ago

Well whatever, we were able to fix the in game audio so that’s all I really care about Thank you for being patient with my dumb azz

xenophobic-harlequin•6mo ago

yeah, sometimes you just have to move on when the situation is good enough

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