After following the steps outlined in this guide you will enjoy...





Don't believe me? Check out these true and honest screenshots...





*Please note that menu screens will still render at 60 fps. Gameplay renders at 90 fps.

**Please note that pre-rendered UI elements will be stretched vertically just a bit. This is a limitation of zmod. 3D graphics rendered in real time are not distorted.

The process for making this happen is easy.

Let's get started.

You'll need the various files from this Google Drive[drive.google.com] folder. I recommend downloading the entire folder as a .zip archive to your Steam Deck via desktop mode.



Due to google flagging one of the .dll files, I've zipped the folder together for you and placed it on the drive. Just download the 'Dynasty Warriors 8 modpack pass-dynasty.zip' file and unzip it with the password 'dynasty'. It contains all the files in the drive plus the mysteriously flagged tmrls.dll

Once this folder (including the texmod subfolder) is downloaded to your Steam Deck you are ready to move on to the next step!

Open Steam while in desktop mode and navigate to Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends in your Library.

Click the little gear icon on the right side of the screen and navigate to 'Manage' -> Browse local files'



Copy the contents of the folder you downloaded from google drive directly into the 'Dynasty Warriors 8' folder you just opened via Steam.

After copying everything over, the contents of the folder (and texmod subfolder) should look like this...



You're almost done!

Next, you'll return to Steam and click on the little gear icon again but this time navigate to 'Properties...'



Now, enter the following text into the 'Launch Options' text box...




Congratulations! You're pretty much done at this point. Return to Gaming Mode and enjoy the definitive handheld version of Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends!

This wouldn't be possible without the hard work of Fragon who developed zmod for both DW8XL and Warriors Orochi 4.

If you want to thank Fragon, you can join the zmod discord[discord.gg]and drop a line. If you're feeling especially generous and/or grateful you can buy 'em a coffee[ko-fi.com].

Thanks to Artur Alexeev who, some twenty years ago, created the texmod loader that I utilized in this modpack!

Thanks to u/MetalCannon for sharing the Xpad.tpf glyph mod file!

Thanks to IAmTheRad in the zmod discord for testing and feedback!

Verify that you entered the launch command exactly as shown in this guide.

Verify that the contents of the game folder (and texmod subfolder) matches exactly that shown in the screenshot provided.


Turn off fullscreen mode via display options in-game.


Ensure your Steam Deck is an OLED model. Steam Decks with LCD screens have a max refresh rate of 60 fps and can not take advantage of the 90 fps aspect of the mod. If you have an OLED Steam Deck and the problem persists, set vsync to 0 via display options in-game.


Check the game's local files folder again and make sure the 'texmod' folder is nested inside the 'Dynasty Warriors 8' folder and contains the Xpad.tpf file.



It's true! Open up the zmod_dw8xlce.ini file and you can experiment with camera parameters as well as alter aspects of the affinity system such as disabling player flinching, forcing neutral affinity across all officer encounters, and enabling officer flinching despite affinity advantage.

The affinity mod settings can be enabled/disabled by changing the appropriate value to a 1 or 0 respectively.

Remember to enable whatever affinity mod effects by changing the enable_affinity_mod value from 0 to 1 at the top of the .ini file. The affinity mod is disabled by default.



Simply delete the files added to the game folder and remove the launch command and the game will function without the mods.

[Please note the following bug alert is related only to zmod and not the button glyph functionality of texmod]

It has come to my attention that there seems to be a few bugs related to drop rate of various items/treasures/mounts/etc. as well as some level pacing/progression issues (such as gates not opening properly) caused by zmod. If you are having issues, you can easily disable zmod via the settings at the top of the .ini file.



Change the '1' values to '0' values and zmod should be disabled while still allowing texmod's glyph functionality to work as intended. There is currently every indication that the issues are caused by zmod and not texmod.

I strongly suspect the issues are solely a result of the framerate modification so if you want to keep affinity mod, camera angle mod, and custom resolution mod functionality you can leave those enabled with a value of '1' and test things out.

If problems persist, please follow the uninstall instructions above.

Thanks for reading and thanks for your understanding!