WidescreenFixesPack VS Ultimate-ASI-Loader

Update your WidescreenFix: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/nfsc

[FOR WIDESCREEN] ->Install the widescreenfix from here https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/nfsu2 ->Set WindowedMode = 3 in the widescreen.ini ->Rename d3d9.dll to d3d9.asi ->When the game launches, change your desktop resolution back to it's normal one ->Expand the game's window

Thankfully we have new patches for VCS on the PS2 Emulator (PCSX2) that allow you to use PC controls (keyboard/mouse), PC Cheats (experimental), 60fps support, ultrawide monitor support, improved aspect ratio etc, if you are interested check here: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/gtavcs

I've been using ThirteenAG's great collection of widescreen fixes for games on my Windows PC and my Deck, but I've found the results a bit mixed on the Steam Deck side of things and was wondering if anyone has any advice.

Steam Deck set up: Setting up the games on Steam Deck is simple. 1. Enter Desktop Mode 2. Move the extracted files folder somewhere on your Steam Deck (use external drive, ftp etc) 3. Find the game .exe, right click it (left trigger) and click "Add game to Steam". If you don't know which is the executable or you can't find it, go to your uncompressed files, open the start..sh with a text editor and look at the bottom of the script t find where and which files is executed. 4. Switch to Gaming Mode, find the added game and try to run it. - If the game does not run, try changing the compatibility (game properties) to GE or an other proton version (Get more versions with ProtonUp-QT) - Older games may contain a "scripts" folder and a dinput8.dll file. These files are patching the game with setting changes (screen resolution, buttons etc). If your game has these, modify the .ini file inside the scripts folder with a text editor (if available, change resolution x and y to 1280 and 800, and change to xbox controller). You also need to add the following launch option in the game properties in steam: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command% You can check for scripts at https://thirteenag.github.io/wfp, just make sure you don't have multiple *.asi files in the scripts folder. I highly recommend this for older games which run in the wrong resolution or you get keyboard controls.

you also need https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/x64-latest/bink2w64-x64.zip place dll into content folder AFTER renaming original bink2w64.dll to bink2w64Hooked.dll

Updated the ASI Loader from github but the game refused to load. Turns out my achievement enabler plugin was causing the issue, once disabled everything is working as normal. I was using this one.

Try Ultimate ASI Loader

So I got GTA 3 to run on WINE successfuly. Next stop is getting ASI patches to load, but I've hit a bit of a wall here. Naming the Ultimate ASI loader to dinput8.dll and setting WINE to use that DLL gets me the following message "Unable to load SilentPatchIII.asi: Error 998". Closest thing to the topic I've found is this thread: https://github.com/thirteenag/ultimate-asi-loader/issues/12, but doesn't look like that got anywhere either. Since it's from 2020, i figured to ask - has anyone got this to work since?

You are welcome. In general if you recieve message to use launchgtaiv.exe it means that XLivelessAddon is not loading for some reason. Reinstall it and maybe update Ultimate ASI Loader - Ultimate-ASI-Loader.zip unpack and rename as xlive.dll https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/tag/v4.68

With that said, if they are not the same, check if you are able to rename one of them into something else. The Ultimate ASI Loader, for example, allows you to rename it into any of the ones listed in the link.

You need at least something called Ultimate ASI Loader Get the x86 version here: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/v4.68/Ultimate-ASI-Loader.zip