Community reports an audio-DLL workaround for MGS2 and MGS3 on Steam Deck

Players in our Discord reported a workaround for MGS2 and MGS3 crashes on Steam Deck and Linux. We shared Jhmaal Jackson’s demonstration, which points to the Windows audio library xaudio2_9.dll.

The reported setup places that DLL beside the game’s executable and adds a native-library override in Steam’s launch options:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_9=n" %command%

The environment-variable name above follows Wine’s spelling and the screenshot attached to our post. Use ordinary straight quotation marks in the launch option.

The community demonstration

This records the community workaround reported in October 2023. Our post described successful reports from Discord; it was not an official Konami patch announcement.

Jhmaal Jackson — MGS2 and MGS3 running on Steam Deck

Sources

Jhmaal Jackson — original workaround and demonstration · MGN report and screenshot · WineHQ — DLL override variable syntax