About
Fast & Furious: Showdown is a 2013 racing and car-combat game developed by Firebrand Games and published by Activision as a tie-in to the film franchise, bridging the story between Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. Its 31 missions center on driving, turret gunning, and car-hijacking, playable solo with an AI partner or in local split-screen co-op (there is no online play).
The game received broadly negative reviews for poor graphics, framerate issues, and weak AI, and the PC version was later delisted from sale tied to the film license.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- Fast and Furious Showdown.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- Proton 7.0-6
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Silver runs with minor issues
⚙ Setup notes
Game: 2013 Firebrand Games / Activision movie tie-in racer (Steam appid 224340), delisted over the film license.
Proton: Use Proton 7.0-6 — it runs as expected. Do NOT use Proton Experimental or 8.0 — they fail at first launch with a C:\Windows\System32\OpenAL32.dll is read-only error (Abort/Retry/Ignore all dead-end).
DRM: Game uses Steam DRM, so it needs Steam to launch — no extra DRM bypass required.
Controller: Console-port arcade racer with native gamepad support; the Steam Deck controls work out of the box, fall back to a Steam Input gamepad layout if needed.
The one thing to know
Delisted (film license): configuration only, no links.
Proton: Must run on Proton 7.0-6; Experimental/8.0 hard-fail on the OpenAL32.dll read-only error.
Multiplayer: Single-player runs fine; the game crashes to desktop after every multiplayer race, so treat it as single-player on Deck.
DRM: Requires Steam DRM (launches through Steam).
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.