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So I've been spending a lot of time fiddling with my Steam Deck and I was struggling trying to get the original Tomb Raider working on it. It was easy at first, using dgVoodoo2, but then I found out about the TombRaider-AutomatedFix and wanted that bad. I got it installed using a bottles environment and boom! It worked!
But there was an issue. There was absolutely no music! For some reason, music would just not work no matter the protontricks or other aspects I tried. Same went for the higher res FMVs. So then I discovered Tomb1Main. I tried that and bam! Everything fixed! Even the music! But yet there was a new problem! Since Tomb1Main functions as its own executable, I couldn't launch it by just launching Tomb Raider anymore. I knew you could make Steam launch other things on PC, since Stardew needs it for their mods, but it didn't translate properly for Linux. There also wasn't a clear answer online how to do it, other than through How to run another .exe in an existing proton wine prefix which gave the right idea but it actually didn't have to be as complicated as its laid out here as I found out, since we're launching through steam launch options, which already has some information preconfigured for us.