About
F1 2016 is the official Formula One racing game for the 2016 season, built on Codemasters' EGO engine. It was the first in the series to feature a ten-season career mode and reintroduced the formation lap, manual race starts, the safety car and the new Virtual Safety Car. Critically well received (around 86 on Metacritic), it was widely praised as Codemasters' best F1 game to that point. It was delisted from Steam in March 2022 after the underlying FIA Formula One license lapsed.
Screenshots
Official store screenshots from Steam — deckport links them, never rehosts. Hover to pause; click to preview.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- f1_2016.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Silver runs with minor issues
⚙ Setup notes
Delisted: Steam racing game (appid 391040), removed March 2022 when EA/Codemasters let the FIA license lapse.
Proton: ProtonDB tier silver (recent reports trend lower) — community reports it runs and is playable on Deck, but results are inconsistent. Use GE-Proton (or a recent proton_experimental) for best results; not every Proton build launches it cleanly.
R6025 launch crash: the common R6025 - pure virtual function call runtime error that stops the game from starting is tied to CPU SMT/HyperThreading. On a desktop the fix is disabling SMT (AMD) / HyperThreading (Intel) in BIOS; if you hit R6025 on a fresh prefix here, try a different Proton build before assuming the recipe is broken.
DRM: ships with Denuvo, which limits machine activations to 5 per day — avoid repeatedly recreating the prefix or swapping Proton versions in a short window or you can exhaust activations.
Controller: usually works as a gamepad, but some Deck/Proton combinations report the controller not being detected at all. If input dies, apply a Steam Input gamepad layout / try a different Proton build rather than assuming it's natively reliable.
Install: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links game files.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: deckport links nothing. Delisted March 2022, so it's not for sale.
Proton: ProtonDB silver — community reports F1 2016 running and playable on Deck/Proton.
Cosmetic: expect persistent minor visual artifacts (shimmering around car/driver models and distant objects, occasional screen vibration); these don't break on-track gameplay.
DRM: Denuvo caps activations at 5/day, so don't churn the prefix or Proton version repeatedly.
R6025 crash: an R6025 - pure virtual function call error on launch is a known SMT/HyperThreading issue; if it appears, switch Proton builds (or disable SMT on a desktop) rather than recreating the prefix.
Controller: usually detected as a gamepad, but not guaranteed — some Deck/Proton combos report no controller input. Apply a Steam Input layout if it drops out.
Status: recipe not yet hardware-verified on a specific Deck.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.