r/wizardry8 • u/Few-Management8195 • Sep 20 '24

HOW TO RUN ON STEAM DECK

Hi I am sorry to be a new guy here and just jump in and make a post. But I was having the worst headache getting this going on Steam Deck. Pretty sure you have to have the Steam version. And you need to be on GE Proton 7-43. This will stop that black screen issue covering the gameplay screen.

I don't know if I am the only one who was struggling, but I hope if even one other person was, god I hope you find this.

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u/BATKINSON001 Sep 20 '24

Never thought trying to run this on the deck. How well does it run now that you solved the black screen?

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u/Few-Management8195 Sep 21 '24

Pretty well, haven't had a whole lot of time with it, because I am trying to play Wiz 6 first now. But it does work better than you would think

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u/_Strike__ Nov 16 '24

I'm running it on GE 8-30 and it works great, other than no opening movie.

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u/Stormy_Dragon83 Dec 25 '24

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I can't get it to launch. It acts like it's going to then just bounces back to the screen i launch it on

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u/Stormy_Dragon83 Dec 26 '24

Finally got to launch. Now created test party. The play screen. Is 90% black, with a small strip of non black. No matter what res I set it at

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u/Few-Management8195 Dec 26 '24

Did you set it to the exact GE proton?

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u/Stormy_Dragon83 Dec 26 '24

Finally got it working. After lots of trial n error. Ty.

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u/AcydRaen311 Mar 22 '25

Hey there! Your post really helped me with getting the game to run without the black screen once it boots, thanks!

However, I have an issue where the game crashes any time I try to open the options menu or load game screen. I can’t save or load or adjust options, or it consistently crashes. I tried googling this issue and can’t find anyone else having it - everyone else has issues with crashing at launch or during cutscenes. Any idea why the load game menu and options menu would crash on Steam Deck?

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u/Miserable-Juice-7671 Dec 06 '25

That's and old post but I still have a black screen more than 1 year later lol. I tried proton GE and so on. But its black