Comments on: Classics On Deck #3: Zoo Tycoon (2001) / Driver: San Francisco

By: Oliver Stogden

Oliver Stogden — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:13:13 +0000

Hey,

I just tried it, and it does indeed make the game run at 1280x800 on the Deck and removes black borders around the game screen.

Thanks!

By: Mr. OVERKILL

Mr. OVERKILL — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:23:35 +0000

Hello hello!

Quick question on the Zoo Tycoon - PCGW says you can change the resolution in the zoo.ini file within the game config location - have you tried to set that to 1280x800 to see what happens?

Cheers!

By: Oliver Stogden

Oliver Stogden — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:45:43 +0000

In reply to Corey Higgins. All comments have to be manually approved on SteamDeckHQ, your comment was not moderated, just hadn't been reviewed by a member of staff yet.

By: Corey Higgins

Corey Higgins — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:56:59 +0000

Lol my comment got moderated?? It was just a suggestion and I was curious your thoughts about a different direction or maybe why you guys feel strongly about sharing how to run Windows games the vast majority of us will never bother going through all that to play on the Deck, if that's the case. Didn't mean to upset anybody.

By: Corey Higgins

Corey Higgins — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:16:20 +0000

These are a great little curio but my humble suggestion for a much more useful weekly (or more!) article would be to focus on games that are available on the platform. It's a neat read to see you can get old windows games running if you want to jump through a bunch of hoops and rip old cd-roms etc. but from a practical standpoint I, and I can only assume many, many others, would be FAR more interested in seeing this same effort put into older games we can buy on Steam. Knowing how the zoo game we all played for free on a shareware disc from Walmart in 1997 runs on the Steam Deck is a cool experiment but knowing which classic titles readily available on Steam (even if it takes a launch code or specific proton layer) run at a locked 90 etc. and really showcase what this little guy can do to older titles would be incredible.