Steam deck players, how did you get your game to run? My game keeps crashing on the steam deck, no matter what I do. The farthest I’ve gotten was about 5 minutes into the game, then either the game crashes or the console just shuts down. It keeps throwing DirectX error on crash. I’ve reinstalled, verified game files, even factory reset the console.
No issues here, do you per chance have any deck mods installed. I read in another thread that someone was crashing due to some steam deck tools.
No, I got the deck last week, this is one of the first games I have installed. I have a couple other games on it too, an some of them are also crashing. I’ve only been able to play heroes of might and magic, and dirt racing game.
Contact stream support, might be a faulty unit.
Sounds like you might have gotten a dud. I’ve seen reports of people getting 10fps on low settings in a Reddit thread, and it was a hardware issue that got RMAed. Contact support - they’re good and fast at getting back to you. I just went through the issue with an out of warranty deck where the battery wouldn’t charge and they still gave me an RMA.
I have put 46 hours into BG3 exclusively on my Steam Deck. It is installed on the SD card, and I have the game limited to 24fps per a guide that was posted somewhere. I have various decky mods and adjustments from setting up ToTK on yuzu, which included using powertools and making adjustments to BIOS (swap file size increase maybe?)
I am nearing the end of act 1 and the only issues I’ve had are audio related after waking the deck up from sleep. I typically leave the game running and rarely close it completely.
My deck is running the main stable build, and I have the game running with the default proton build, not experimental. Playing with the most popular community Kb&M controller setup listed.
I hope you can figure out how to get it running, because It’s such a good game. Good luck
I also have it on SD card, but couldn’t even get to the main menu most of the time, the game crashes as soon as the loading screen gets to 100. I have it run with proton 8 compatibility.
Is that a vulkan / DX11 thing? I had that happening in early access but not lately
Did you purchase on steam or somewhere else? The people I’ve seen reporting issues bought it via GOG for the most part.
It works basically correctly for me. Performance isn’t great. I did have issues right after launch that were resolved with the developer>remove proton files (I think?) option and restarting the install process.
It’s a steam purchase, I’ve been having problems from the get go with this hand held. Im starting to think I got a bad unit.
I could maybe see a memory issue leading to general instability like that.
Valve support has been really good, leaning towards very generous interpretation of the warranty from everything I’ve seen, so an issue on a brand new product should be resolved pretty easily.
You probably don’t have to, but it might save you hassle to try reinstalling steam OS. This is the first guide I found if you have access to a Windows PC. If you have Linux/Mac I can find you the alternative way to write the USB if needed. Sometimes that will clean everything up, even on new units.
Just another voice to add that it’s works out if the box on my deck; my only guess is it needs to be specially the steam purchase, otherwise my deck is pretty much as it was when I first got it and the game seems optimized for deck (albeit the graphics aren’t the greatest lol)
I’ve tried, but felt that the quality sacrifice vs my main PC was just too great, especially considering the amount of fan noise Deck would kick up…
Did not love the racial menus either. I think I’ll stick to mouse and keyboard for this one.
The game runs well on my PC, but I’m trying to set it up on my deck so I can play when I’m away from home
I get you, that was my plan too.
I’m about 40 hours in, I have a 3080 card and ultra wide monitor but have played 90% on my steam deck. No crashes, performance is good enough and everything is readable. It’s my perfect handheld RPG.
At work at the moment on a not-long-enough short break, but I’ll come back in a few hours to see if you have an answer, if not I’ll let you know my settings. This game is running quite well on my Deck.
I’ve been playing on the Steam Deck with almost no issue, though it is a bit different from the PC environment. I actually just yesterday played on my PC after having strictly played on my Deck since release and it felt way different. I’d gotten so used to Deck controls that I’m having to relearn everything. Having a mouse to point out everything makes it easier to misclick on everything.
The one issue that came up is that now my Cloud Sync won’t load on the Deck after having played on the PC. I had turned off Cross-Saves bc I didn’t think I needed it and it slowed everything down (I assumed it was PC-to-console), but I may have turn it back on. Otherwise I may have to only play on PC now. :(
I have crosssave issues too. Seems like it can be resolved by turning it on in the startup menu, letting both systems sync, and then restarting. Kinda goofy, seems like the steam cloud stuff ought to take care of it
I was messing around with that last night but couldn’t get it to work. My latest saves seem stuck on my PC now, as my PC gives the error that it can’t upload saves to Steam Cloud, even though Criss-save in game is apparently synced up. I’m sure the pulled update didn’t help matters, but the whole thing is super annoying.
Try proton experimental (manage game sub menu in steam).
I’ve only played the release version on Linux, and it’s been running great. Maybe try Vulkan instead of directx, as well.
As for performance, I set the frame rate cap to 30 on my deck and left everything else at default. I’m also running off an sd card
I did try proton experimental, still crash. The game launcher does show on my deck, it goes straight to the game so I can’t choose vulkan
Been playing on my arch Linux install since launch and no issues. I know it’s not a deck but it’s still arch, specifically endeavour.
It pretty much worked out of the box for me. I just set it to use Proton Hotfix.
I’m going to wait before buying. Thanks for the update
Okay, when I first tried to set it up on launch day, I kept getting similar errors.
I detailed what I did to get it running in this thread. If you’re having the same issue, hopefully that will get you running.
For Proton, I’m currently using Proton Experimental, but other versions of Proton or Proton GE would likely work.
I’ve had a lot of success with these settings! It looks great and the lower fps isn’t noticeable considering it’s turn based.
https://overkill.wtf/baldurs-gate-3-best-settings-steam-deck/
Mine was similar except that it was crashing with vulkan errors.
which is odd because the internet claimed it would always run in dx11 on steam.Anyways i edited a launcher.cfg or launcher.sh file (can’t remember which). and i pointed both versions at the same dx11 exe file.
After that it runs fine - i lock the deck aand game at 40 fps,
and i think i limited the CPU to 10W. Settings are mixed medium or high textures, low on the shadows/clours/fog.
