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The overwhelming majority of this game runs great. No FPS issues or graphical bugs, no tinkering needed. There were occasional freezes throughout the game (like one every 5-10 hours), but they were manageable. Except for two areas - a trip on a boat in a very cold place late in the game, as well as the final boss of the game. Frequent system freezes occured to me in those two parts.
Through the first, I could get with several retries. For the final boss I had to switch over to Windows, since it was absolutely not manageable. This is apparently an error related to AMD graphics cards that may occur on some linux systems and with some games (amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout). It seems very hard to pinpoint and reproduce, so most people would probably not even experience it. Those who do, however, should seriously consider switching over to another system for the two gameplay segments I mentioned.
Game crashes right after the main menu and the playstation cras report window shows. I have tried everything. Nothing works. Game is toast on the deck, period.
gamemoderun %command%
some texture flickering while rotating around kratos
No customizations required, stable and without any crashes to report
Run, crouch and Flick Stick on the Grip Buttons
For a stable 40fps settings
In game settings: Display mode Windowed (this is important for FSR) Res: 864x486 (this is important for FSR) V-SYNC: Off Motion Blur: 10 (Motion blur is good for controllers, so you don't see the jank when you turn around) Film Grain: 0 (this is important for the build in Steam Deck FSR) AMD FSR 2.0: None (Don't use the build in FSR from the game, it does not work well)
Custom Preset: Texture: Original Model: Original Anisotropic Filter: Original Shadows: Low Reflections: Original Atmospherics: Low Ambient Occlusion: Original
Steam Deck Performance tab: Refresh Rate: 60 hz Disable Frame Limit Allow Tearing No TDP Limit Scaling Filter: FSR FSR Sharpeness: 5
BIOS: 4GB VRAM
This game has a memory leak problem and crashes the game. If it does crash, it's best to reboot the Steam Deck.
OR
For even better looking game, use the DLSS mod. Res: 1280x720 Refresh Rate: 40 hz DLSS: Quality Sharpness: 70
Install the DLSS Mod. It's very easy, you place the files in a folder and in any game with the DLSS disable, just add a Steam command so it will install the files you need on boot of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIBankCMC8
Works perfectly on first launch with experimental proton
After increasing swap-space from the meager 1GB default to 16GB (8GB might also work I guess) the game ran like a charm - no freezing, no rebooting, no resetting of the steam-deck.
Then I also did a little tweaking as described in "https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/god-of-war-2018/#comment-1540".
From that point on, I finished the game without any problems.
In my previous report, I said it was great experience and I support that, just i forgot to mention something for Nvidia users
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH="$HOME/.nv/GLCache" gamemoderun mangohud %command%
I forgot to mention something last time and that is, if you have Nvidia GPU, make sure you export these variables in your .bashrc
export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1 export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH='$HOME/.nv/GLCache'
And then use my launch options for the nvidia gl shader ones and gamemoderun %command%. Mangohud if fps monitoring is a necessity
gamemoderun %command%
Before like 5 months or more ago, God of War in highest graphics with no DLSS would give me 40 - 60 which was horrible compared to what Windows would give me. I was soo sad that I couldn't play my favourite game which I finished completely multiple times so i didn't need to play it but still ....
Now, I tried it again, but now its working... I started with the Queen Valkryie fight immediately which first gave me poor performance but thats something Windows would do too because its compilation but afterwards, like 5 - 10 mins, it was similar to or even better than Windows which made my eyes tear.
Go Team Linux!!!
утечка памяти приводит к зависанию консоли \ memory leak hangs up the console
применить рекомендованные настройки CryoUtilities,в дополнение можно в биосе выбрать 4гб видеопамяти \ apply the recommended CryoUtilities settings, in addition, you can select 4GB of video memory in the bios
I fixed it in the steam settings
For the people having stability issues and stuff this fixed all my issues Display mode: borderless motion blur/film grain OFF AMD FSR 2.0 QUALITY, FSR Sharpening 0.3 Texture quality: Low/Medium Model quality/ Shadows / Reflection / Ambient Occlusion: Original Anistropic Filter ULTRA Limit FPS to 30
Game slows down over the course of 30 minutes or so until it completely freezes and requires a hard shutdown of the Steam Deck.
This game will eventually degrade so much while playing you must turn the entire console off.
memory leak makes the game unplayable after about 30 minutes
once the memory leak sets in the game slows down so much that i cant even reaccess the steam menu to shut it down. I need to turn off the deck completely
The game runs great on Steam Deck with occassional crash which seems related to Steam Deck overheating after few hours of play
Works out of the box
Graphics on lowest with reflections and AO on medium, 800p, no FSR, 30FPS locked and consistent, perfect experience
No problems at all, works out of the box
There were some wonky physics, but only in cutscenes. Other than that great!
I would not recommend anyone playing with the frustration of trying to figure out when the game is going to crash.
Some text is blurred or too small
Noticeable framedrops sometimes
The game frequently crashes. You must lower the game's graphic settings due to a well known memory problem.
Steam Deck frequently crashed due to running out of memory, rendering the console completely unresponsive. You have to hard reset the console.
This game does not deserve the "Steam Deck Verified" badge and would recommend against playing it in a system without a ton of spare RAM.
Works great, even on Linux Mint 22 Wilma Cinnamon
Nothing to complain, the Game works like it did on Windows 10. Fantastic, Thank you.
Runs great!
The characters had a weird black outline when in the boat and with the water behind them
sudo kernelstub -a split_lock_detect=off
Without the option I listened before the FPS tanks in some areas, sometimes could be below 30 but after the customization everything is +- alright
You can play even as it is but in some scenarious the performance can be quite low, around 30FPS
I would not recommend this game on the steam deck, it crashes, it over heats the steam deck, it stutters.
the game is slow, it stutters, overheats the steam deck and freezes after 20-30 mins
I gave up on this game, ended up playing it on a PC instead
Major FPS drops that caused crashes and freezing.
Game runs completely fine until after you meet Freya as soon as you leave her house and unlock the bigger map the game starts having heavy FPS drops and even occasionally crashed/froze and when it froze it completely locked up the Steam Deck causing me to force restart.
gamemoderun %command%
When i was new to Linux i've disabled split lock detection because i didn't know about gamemode.. gamemode already has a fix for it so you don't need to disable anything manually. Just launch the game with gamemoderun %command% it does the trick for smooth high fps gameplay.
sometimes it crashes after launch while it's compiling the shaders
works OOTB, I'm launching the game with Bottles so I can sync the GOG Galaxy cloud saves
