All the reviews I read on steam says it crashes a lot on SD and is barely playable. Is it true?
Our first patch introduced a Steam Deck crash. We then released 2 patches to mitigate the issue so it only happens in rare circumstances. We have another patch planned early next week that will fix the root cause.
I tried the command, but the first teleport before the dungeon still crashed my deck :( Hopefully you're able to patch it soon, I'll keep checking for updates! Thanks :)
That sounds like a totally unrelated issue to what the problem is with performance. I would submit a bug in our discord.
Totally biased opinion: Wayfinder
Originally posted by Blumage: I bought it two days ago as I like the style and it stated steam verified but was shocked about the crashes on my steam deck. Refunded it after one hour.Thanks for the confidence. Please note this patch will reduce those crashes but they can still happen in rare cases. We have a permanent solve for them coming next week. Thanks for your patience.
Now, after calming down and seeing the focus of the developers to make it run on the steam deck updating with fixes…I just purchased it again believing that they will make the steam deck experience worth. Please don’t make me regret 😅
Originally posted by A.Crowley: thanks for that fix! yesterday highlands was hard crashing my steamdeck and now it's playable. cheers, devs!It's compiling shaders in the background.
I do have a request - can we skip the warning on the load screen? maybe after the first time playing, because it's a waste of 10 seconds every time we start up the game
Originally posted by it's a gabe: I was gonna say, this fix doesn't fix much at all. Just had another system-wide crash while navigating the menu in the highlands. It seems that going deeper into menus also kills performance drastically.another optimization patch to reduce these just went out.
Looking forward to that permanent fix. Was really pumped to play this while working from home, as the ability to pause makes this ideal for my job.
Game is still unplayable on low settings, highlands is causing constant crashes
Did you try the command above?
So it looks like the recent update for Steam deck has improved performance a tiny bit, but the game still crashes if you pause in the highlands open area to many times.
We believe we have found one of the root causes of this. We're working on 2 fixes. One is another that will reduce this further, while the second will eliminate it.
In the meantime, you can add the following to your Launch Commands in Steam to help reduce it even more.
-ExecCmds="r.MaxCharacterRenderSize=0"
How does that match up with the screenshot they provided?
Specifically, that 10AM pdt and 12am pst do not match? Though I suppose the real question is where they got that screenshot.
Alternatively they might just release it on steam a day or so earlier for preloads then they can control the time it “starts” aka they are enabling the servers independently of all the other platforms.
Works better but still not very enjoyable. The lowest possible graphics, fps locked to 50 and falls to 25-30 all the time. The graphics look poorly at the lowest so that’s weird that it’s so unstable. I think the dungeons got a bit better too, recently I had lags even there but tested it quickly now and worked better.
Yes, you will not be hitting 50+ in the Highlands on the Deck. It'll be closer to 30.
So tired of us PS5 users being treated like redheaded stepchildren.
We understand the frustration, but it's entirely out of our hand. As soon as we have an update with PlayStation transferring rights and have news to share we will.
Patch Out now
Performance optimizations when in Highlands
Fixed crash related to the pause menu when on the Steam Deck.
PLEASE NOTE:
We’ll continue to make Steam Deck optimizations and investigate rare crashes that players still might see. While this fix should dramatically reduce them, in some edge cases the Deck could run out of memory and crash.
You can read more about the other changes here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1171690/announcements/detail/4185613970206088543
EDIT 6/21/2024
We believe we have found one of the root cause...
Read more External link →Originally posted by it's a gabe:Read moreOriginally posted by _HXL_shaz: i run it with protonGE 9.7 and it didn't crash once in 20 hours on deck. fps is constant over 30 even in highlands, in the dungeon pretty much 50-60 but i cap the fps anyway for battery savings. the menu can get a little laggy in the 20s but overall i think it's okay. i'm happy if they get it optimised for sure. settings are 800p, no fsr, 100% renderscale, high textures and shadows, everything else low. you should try it out, it's a lot o...
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