I've read that installing Windows on the deck causes much much more problems than it solves, so I'm not planning on doing that. I'm fairly certain that others have gotten the game working just by adding the .exe file as a non-steam game, so I'm really more curious about troubleshooting why it may not be running for me when it works for others there, even after I set the properties to Proton Experimental. But if I have to install Wine I can try that. Do I have do do anything special when installing it or setting it up to get it to run properly? Or is it pretty much just drop the game in and go?
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Hello. My steam deck comes in tomorrow and I just found out about this wonderful remake yesterday. I was planning on streaming bloodborne to my new steam deck but If I can run this on there that might be even better since that wouldn't require any Wi-Fi and I could take this on the go. I believe that since the file is a .exe it is requited to use a program like wine to run it so when mine comes in I will do some messing around and see what I can get to work. If you have any sucess with using wine let me know and If I figure it out I will try to explain that way we can both get to playing.
I was able to get it running without Wine just by adding it as a non-steam game after a couple days of messing around with it—for some reason when I searched for the main .exe file in desktop mode it would not show up, so eventually I just went into Properties (after adding it as a non-steam game) and wrote in the target location manually. Even when I did that it didn't work for me though until I changed the compatibility option to force Proton 7.0-3, then it worked for me.