About
The Godfather II is a 2009 open-world action-adventure game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts, based on the 1974 film The Godfather Part II and serving as the sequel to the 2006 game The Godfather. Played from a third-person perspective, it casts the player as Dominic, a Corleone family member who rises to don and expands the family's criminal empire across New York, Florida, and Cuba, blending shooting and driving with a strategic crime-management layer. It was delisted from digital storefronts and is no longer sold.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- godfather2.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Pending not enough reports yet
⚙ Setup notes
Game: EA Redwood Shores' 2009 open-world Mafia game (sequel to The Godfather), delisted (Steam appid 24830).
Proton: Runs under Proton; GE-Proton is a reasonable pick. Reports are very sparse — treat as untested and expect some trial-and-error with Proton versions.
Note (no SilentPatch): SilentPatch (SilentPatchGF) is for The Godfather: The Game (2006) — it fixes that game's WinXP-era hardware-overlay video-player launch crash. There is no SilentPatch for The Godfather II (2009), so do not expect that fix to apply here.
Known issue: At least one community report describes a boot loop after the character-select screen on Proton 9.0-1; if that happens, try a different Proton/GE-Proton build.
Display: If you get a black screen on launch, try Alt-Tab out and back, or minimize/restore the window.
Launch: Launch binary is godfather2.exe.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: Delisted commercial game — supply your own copy.
DRM: It shipped with activation-limited SecuROM DRM (machine-authorization limit). EA's old activation servers and the SecuROM layer can fail on modern systems; a copy that does not rely on that DRM is the practical route, and EA's de-authorization tool can free up an activation slot.
No SilentPatch: SilentPatch covers the 2006 The Godfather, not this 2009 sequel — do not expect that specific fix to apply.
Proton: Very few reports exist, so this is effectively untested under Proton. One report mentions a boot loop after character select on Proton 9.0-1 — try another Proton/GE-Proton build if you hit that.
Display: If you get a black screen at launch, try Alt-Tab out and back, or minimize/restore.
Controller: Gamepad support on these EA Redwood Shores titles is finicky (the in-game Active Gamepad option can fail to detect modern pads without settings.ini/controls tweaks), so don't assume flawless native support — use a Steam Input Gamepad layout as the reliable path on Deck.
Online: Online is dead (single-player only).
Launch: Binary: godfather2.exe.
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.