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It causes a bunch of weird controller errors, such as when a controller disconnects (or if the deck goes to sleep), it can't reconnect again.

Just let it use the default version (which I believe should be Proton Hotfix, or whatever Valve decides it should be since BG3 is an AAA headliner, they'll want this to work)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm playing it on Steam Deck right now and though I'm still only a few hours in, I've only had some very minor issues. The game plays fine!

Issue 1: The graphics settings don't seem be persisted. I have to manually activate anti-aliasing every time, or deal with jaggies.

Issue 2: On Proton Experimental, my controller didn't work at the start. I was able to fix it by launching the on-screen KB (Steam button+X), hitting "Enter", and then switching back to controller mode. Sounds like it's time to switch to Proton Hotfix.

Otherwise, it's been great! I left the graphics settings (other than AA) at their defaults and I've seen no noticeable lag or stuttering during play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been getting 25fps not having touched the settings. Anything I can do to improve that? I'm running SteamOS beta branch and have not adjusted the VRAM levels

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I fiddled with it a fair bit, and ultimately decided to just stick with the "Medium" default. With that, it's pretty stable, with a few dips, but given the turn-based combat etc, it doesn't really bother me.

(But that said, I'm an old-school PC gamer. I played DooM on an 8 MHz 386 at sub-10 FPS. I had to "lead" my shots to play. So my personal standards for game performance may be a little low.)

[–] freddy 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I found that turning off VSync and setting the FPS limit to 30, along with capping the Steam Deck frame rate at 30 from the UI, gives me good results. I also turned off FSR 1.0, turned on fidelityFX sharpening, and slid the slider all the way to the right. My settings are mostly on low, except for texture quality, which I set to medium.

My FPS isn't always a steady 30, but the game stays very playable, even when it drops to the low 20s. I'm not super picky about performance.

I kinda struggle to get about an hour and a half of gameplay on a full charge (my battery health is at 97%).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I literally doubled my decks weight with a 15000Ma brick attached to the DeckMate system. Now I gotta be resing my arms on my knees or a pillow but I can chill for 4 or 5hrs in game. Also, I gotta be careful about covering the inlet in that position, or I'm playing a slideshow for 2min while the Deck cools.