About
Starship Troopers is a 2005 first-person shooter from British studio Strangelite Studios, based on Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film. Set five years after the movie, the player is Marauder Zero Six fighting the Arachnid bugs on the planet Hesperus. It received mixed-to-negative reviews, criticized for weak AI and dated graphics. It was a Windows-only release that never came to Steam and is long out of print, making it a frequent target for preservation and WSGF widescreen fixes.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- STGame.exe
- Options
- PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
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⚙ Setup notes
Game: 2005 Strangelite Studios FPS (the bug-hunt one). Out of print — bring your own copy.
DRM: The game ships SafeDisc DRM, whose secdrv driver does not run on Proton. Apply the v5.24 community patch (or a no-CD/no-DVD playfix) so the exe launches DRM-free.
Fix: The patched/WSGF modified STGame.exe also adds widescreen + ultrawide and a fix for the corrupted-graphics issue on AMD/ATI GPUs — important on the Deck's AMD APU.
Proton: GE-Proton tends to be the most reliable; if the renderer glitches, force WineD3D (PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1) via the launch options.
Controller: No native controller support — map a Steam Input gamepad->keyboard/mouse FPS layout.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: Out of print; configuration only, no links.
DRM: SafeDisc DRM must be removed (v5.24 community patch / no-CD playfix) — secdrv does not run on Proton.
AMD APU: Needs the AMD/ATI corrupted-graphics fix (bundled in the patched/WSGF STGame.exe); force WineD3D if the renderer glitches.
Controller: No native gamepad — use a Steam Input keyboard/mouse FPS layout.
Status: Not yet confirmed running on Deck hardware; no ProtonDB entry (never on 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.