About
Turok is a 2008 first-person shooter and a reboot of the Turok series, loosely based on the Acclaim comic books. Developed by Propaganda Games on a heavily modified Unreal Engine 3, it pits the player against soldiers and dinosaurs on a hostile alien planet, emphasizing knife stealth kills and using one enemy type against another.
It launched on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in February 2008 with a Windows port following in April; reviews were mixed but it sold over a million copies. The PC version was never offered on Steam and the studio was later shut down, leaving it out of digital storefronts.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- TurokGame.exe
- Options
- PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- physx
⚙ Setup notes
Install: Propaganda Games' 2008 Turok reboot; never sold on Steam. Real executable is TurokGame.exe inside the Turok/Binaries/ folder.
Fix: Requires the NVIDIA PhysX Legacy driver v9.12.1031 (winetricks physx) or the game won't start.
Display: DXVK causes pixel-bleeding/garbled cutscenes — set launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to fix video.
Proton: GE-Proton is the safest build; proton_experimental also works.
Cosmetic: If a repeating update-config popup appears, click No.
Controller: No native gamepad support on PC — bind a Steam Input gamepad layout (controller -> keyboard/mouse) for Deck controls.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: Commercial game that was never sold on Steam. Launch TurokGame.exe from the Turok/Binaries/ folder.
Fix: Must install the NVIDIA PhysX Legacy driver v9.12.1031 (winetricks physx) or it won't start.
Display: Set launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to fix DXVK pixel-bleeding/garbled cutscenes.
Proton: GE-Proton recommended.
Controller: The PC version has no native controller support, so add a Steam Input gamepad-to-keyboard/mouse layout for handheld play; the WSGF community PostFix+ tool tames heavy motion blur/post effects.
Cosmetic: If an update-config popup repeats, click No.
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.