MGS 2 on Steam Deck

[thecoalitionofchaos]

I really have no clue what I'm doing, so I thought I put an image and how I got here.

Baisically, I followed this guide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC8FunBpzcg Up to the 2.0 patch. For some reason the patch didn't pick up the mgs 2 files, so I went with this fix instead. That resulted in a black screen, so I set the winecfg to windows xp as well as setting the d3d8 override. I'm really not sure where to go from here however.

[thecoalitionofchaos]

Fixed it by running winetricks dsound directmusic dsdmo quartz in the virtual drive

[VFansss]

I'm sorry, but I'm not a linux gamer thus I woudn't be able to help you even if I wanted.

There's anyone that actually can make a complete list of action anyone can do to install and play this game from linux?

I'm not expert enough to do that myself, neither I have time to mess with the lovely world of Wine, so I would truly like to know how to make it running with the latest fix and the GOG version.

[thecoalitionofchaos]

I'm doing what i can, i did get the game working but it crashed near the end of tanker and the extra raiden/snake missions don't work. I'll mess around with it later, see what I can do.

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[gardenappl]

I added an entry to the WineHQ AppDatabase (for the GOG version):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=40005

It has a list of things I did to install the game, and the issues that I still have with it. (Wine has a problem with some video formats, so the intro movie doesn't play, despite following troubleshooting steps from this Github's wiki).

[mauricioduarte01]

I added an entry to the WineHQ AppDatabase (for the GOG version):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=40005

It has a list of things I did to install the game, and the issues that I still have with it. (Wine has a problem with some video formats, so the intro movie doesn't play, despite following troubleshooting steps from this Github's wiki).

thanks! I may jump to the train soon as well if I don't find a good price for the collection on the Vita.

I play on linux so I may help with this in the near future (if I end up buying the gog version)

[delcake]

I've been spending some time on this lately myself, and have put together a Lutris install script to get the game installed and configured in a runnable state. Just remove the .txt extension and you can use this along with the GOG installer to have a test install with V's Fix preinstalled. I'm happy to report that the intro movie played fine for me, so it seems the Wine situation has improved since this was last discussed.

lutris_mgs2s.yml.txt

I have DXVK disabled, because V's Fix misidentifies my GPU adapter and complains that the game launched on a different adapter every time if it's left on.

My primary issue at this point is that sound effects such as menu confirmations, footsteps, gunshots and the like all seem to be delayed by a half to a full second on my system. I suspect this has to do with the game's implementation of dsound.dll since codec calls and cutscene audio don't appear to be unsynced from what I can tell. I'm not sure if this is specific to my hardware configuration or not, since I do use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 as my audio interface.

The bundled audio fix which provides a dsound.ini file seems promising, but I haven't been able to locate any documentation for if there are further options I can try tinkering with for it.

[VFansss]

Albeit I have a Steam Deck, I'm too mentally tired to use it to play MGS.

However, someone has already fiddled it it enough and seems that under Proton it works good.

In the comment, the uploader mentioned it used Lutris, so. He applied some "winetricks", but seems that is working good without issues.

I never even used Lutris (until now, but I guess I will do before or later) so I'm not expert in Lutris install scripts: my knowledge of the overall "architecture" is too low to make something reliable from my end 😢