Deus Ex: Revision (397550)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Deus Ex: Revision
• Steam AppID of the game: https://steamdb.info/app/397550/

System Information

• GPU: Radeon RX 5500 XT
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.2.0-devel (git-d677120cae) / LLVM 13 git master
• Kernel version: 5.13.0-pf2+
• https://github.com/shoober420/linux-scripts/blob/main/home/shoober420/sysinfoamd
• Proton version: 6.12-GE-1 / Experimental

As of this post, you cant install Deus Ex: Revision through Steam. I had to download the patch and try to manually apply it to my Deus Ex folder.

EDIT:
Its a Steam UI bug.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-revision/downloads/deus-ex-revision

I downloaded the patch conveniently like this.
wget -O Revision_1_6_1_0_SteamInstaller.zip https://www.moddb.com/downloads/mirror/92106/123/0642a26e018227b0637122fbc897a28f

I then backed up my Deus Ex folder in my Steam directory, and unzipped the patch. The patch comes with 3 ".wim" files. One of them being 2gigs+, and another being 1gig+, a much smaller sized one, and of course the ".exe" itself.

I used this command to install the game patch into the Deus Ex Proton prefix.

WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/6910/pfx" /home/$USER/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton\ -\ Experimental/files/bin/wine /home/$USER/deusexrevisionpatch/Revision_1_6_1_0_SteamInstaller.zip.exe

https://github.com/shoober420/rootscripts/blob/main/home/shoober420/protonwinegamepatch#L4

Symptoms

During the install, it took very fast to patch, considering the patch is about 3GBs. This was odd, and i noticed that it didnt write any files to the directory at all, and launching the game was still vanilla Deus Ex. Does Proton/Wine support the ".wim" file extension?

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.                                                                                                                                                 
002c:fixme:winediag:LdrInitializeThunk wine-staging 6.12 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
002c:fixme:winediag:LdrInitializeThunk Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
0078:err:plugplay:deviceloop_thread Can't init SDL: SDL not built with joystick support
00f8:fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub
00f8:fixme:shell:BrsFolder_OnCreate flags BIF_NEWDIALOGSTYLE partially implemented
011c:fixme:wimgapi:WIMCreateFile (L"Z:\\home\\lokiju420_-\\deusexpoop\\Content_Stock.wim" -2147483648 3 2 0 036EFBE0) stub
011c:fixme:wimgapi:WIMCreateFile (L"Z:\\home\\lokiju420_-\\deusexpoop\\Content_Patch.wim" -2147483648 3 2 0 036EFBE0) stub
011c:fixme:wimgapi:WIMCreateFile (L"Z:\\home\\lokiju420_-\\deusexpoop\\Content_Steam.wim" -2147483648 3 2 0 036EFBE0) stub
011c:fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.

I unfortunately cant install this patch on a pure Linux machine. One would have to use windows to install this patch, then move the install over to Linux.

Start with the logged wimgapi:WIMCreateFile stubs and the reported Steam installation path. Check how Proton/Wine handles the three .wim files and whether the installer writes into the prefix. Done means the Deus Ex: Revision patch installs successfully and the game launches with the patched content.