Steam Deck?

[percydanvers]

Hi all,

 

Hope this hasn’t been asked. I searched but couldn’t turn up anything. 
 

I downloaded this on steam deck and the good news is that it works very nicely. Does anyone have any advice as to a good control setup for this device? 

[Avimimus]

I have a feeling that it might not be possible. The game was designed around a keyboard and joystick... so one would probably need those devices.

 

I suppose that, if one turned off most of the features, one could still get some use out of it? I'm not familiar with the steam deck though.

[percydanvers]

2 hours ago, Avimimus said:

I have a feeling that it might not be possible. The game was designed around a keyboard and joystick... so one would probably need those devices.

 

I suppose that, if one turned off most of the features, one could still get some use out of it? I'm not familiar with the steam deck though.

 

I spent about two weeks trying to figure it out, and I'm inclined to agree. It runs fine from a performance point of view and I even got the joysticks to work after a fashion, but there are just too many controls to bind.

[Avimimus]

Ah - well, I'm sorry to hear that.

 

Honestly, it helps to have a longer stick in order to fly precisely... so I think a proper (full hand) joystick is advisable anyway.

 

At least it is possible to run the game on almost any computer these days - it even runs pretty well on Linux using WINE! So if you have almost any computer on hand, that should be an option.

[percydanvers]

On 10/15/2022 at 10:51 PM, Avimimus said:

Ah - well, I'm sorry to hear that.

 

Honestly, it helps to have a longer stick in order to fly precisely... so I think a proper (full hand) joystick is advisable anyway.

 

At least it is possible to run the game on almost any computer these days - it even runs pretty well on Linux using WINE! So if you have almost any computer on hand, that should be an option.

 

Oh yeah performance-wise the steam deck ran it beautifully!

 

I want to run 1946 on my normal computer but I can't ever seem to exit the intro cinematic for whatever reason. 

 

 

[Avimimus]

1 hour ago, percydanvers said:

 

Oh yeah performance-wise the steam deck ran it beautifully!

 

I want to run 1946 on my normal computer but I can't ever seem to exit the intro cinematic for whatever reason. 

 

Interesting. Sometimes it has a bug which requires one to alt-tab away from the game and alt-tab back before the keyboard/mouse will respond - so try that.

 

Also, there is a setting in conf.ini that can remove the cinematic intros (I think the Il-2setup.exe actually has a check box where you can uncheck the cinematic intros. It can be found in the Il-2 folder).

[percydanvers]

8 hours ago, Avimimus said:

 

Interesting. Sometimes it has a bug which requires one to alt-tab away from the game and alt-tab back before the keyboard/mouse will respond - so try that.

 

Also, there is a setting in conf.ini that can remove the cinematic intros (I think the Il-2setup.exe actually has a check box where you can uncheck the cinematic intros. It can be found in the Il-2 folder).

 

Wow that seems to have worked! Thanks for steering me in the right direction!

[Avimimus]

15 hours ago, percydanvers said:

 

Wow that seems to have worked! Thanks for steering me in the right direction!

 

A pleasure! Enjoy!