As a foreword, I’m new to using Linux as a daily driver. I’m still learning the environment, where things go and how to work with the tools provided. Gaming was the one thing holding me back from switching but with the work Valve and others have done more games work than don’t.
I recently purchased the Resident Evil Classic bundle from GOG and installed the games through the Heroic launcher. I am using GE-Proton10-24. One of the issues I’ve run into is in RE1. The cut scenes will play, but I only hear the audio. After doing a bit of research, it looks like it might be related to some Indeo 5 codecs called ir50_32.dll and ir50_32original.dll, specifically that they are not there.
This is all based on a Windows directory so I don’t know if these are even supposed to be there or if Cachy OS uses some alternative.
I say all of this to ask, has anyone else experienced this issue and, if so, were you able to resolve it? If these codecs need to be in the Proton / Wine directory, is there a safe place to download them from? Any assistance would be appreciated and if I need to share further information please let me know.
I did try several versions of Proton:
Proton 3.16
Proton 3.7
Proton 4.11
Proton 4.2
Proton-cachyos
Proton-Experimental
Proton 9.0 (Beta)
GE-Proton9-27
GE-Proton10-1
The Proton versions provided by Steam wouldn’t load the game and in some cases I would get a window stating that the graphics hardware couldn’t be enabled. The GE and Cachy OS versions would allow the game to start but the video still wouldn’t display during cut scenes.
In Heroic, go to the game and then open its settings. Scroll to the bottom and run Winetricks. Select the default prefix and then click OK. Choose “Install dll or component” and then click OK. Look for icodecs and select it and then click OK.
I was able to install the Indeo 5 codecs through Winetricks. The ir50_32.dll now shows in the syswow64 folder of the Heroic prefixes. Unfortunately it did not fix the video issue. Trial and error I suppose. I appreciate the help. I will keep looking into it and if I find anything I will post it here.
I did try installing wmp9 but that didn’t seem to help either. There was a popup while I was installing it saying something about compatibility issues but I didn’t get a chance to read it as it disappeared really quickly. I don’t know if winetricks logs those messages anywhere.
RE1 Has a platinum rating for ProtonDB. Should be able to get it working without any issues. One of the comments for someone on PC using Arch wrote this
Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton10-15, Set launch options
SteamDeck=1 %command% <----For custom launch settings in steam, for the game.
MIssing .wmv support makes the cutscene fail to load after the Capcom logo thus making it unplayable. For whatever reason, adding steamdeck=1 %command% makes it work. I got the idea from this comment on github: The codecs and media frameworks support meta-tracker · Issue #1464 · ValveSoftware/Proton · GitHub You also have to change the config.ini file to get the resolution higher than 1920x1200.
Thanks for the information. I guess I should have clarified that this is the OLD RE1, not the 2015 remaster. GOG was able to get old RE 1, 2 and 3 released so I purchased them. I also own the RE1 remaster and it runs fine right out of the box.
I have bookmarked that ProtonDB site though. It looks like it’s full of good information.
Oh ok, no worries…I didn’t even realize there was a re-mastered version lol. Played the original when if first came out WAY BACK and the part where the dogs jump into the hallway from outside through the windows, yeah best jump scare of all time.
Just made an account to reply to this cause im having the exact same issue
Sadly nothing i tried ever worked, the only option i have is downloading japanese version of the game from GOG and applying REbirth mod.
Still it would be cool if we can get it to work as it is
