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I've put about 4-5 hours into this game on my steam deck OLED at a pretty solid 40FPS.
I play on the medium preset with some slight changes to the graphical settings.
Firstly, I lower the resolution to 1152x720. This allows the game to use the full 16:10 screen while not making it super blurry. It allows to cut down on the GPU usage to reduce lag spikes. If you'd like you can activate FSR in the steam menu to get a bit of a crispier image. That is what I do and I haven't noticed any lag spikes with it enabled but if you do notice you need the performance you can keep it disabled, it doesn't effect visuals much. I haven't experiemented much with keeping native resolution with my other changes, feel free to try it out.
Next I disable all motion blur and depth of field. These settings affect performance a lot. All other settings I keep the same as comes with the medium preset.
There is a patch which enables the game to use DXVK to improve the performance and GPU usage. This works on PC however on Steam Deck proton already makes games use DXVK so it has no affect on performance with the Steam Deck.
Some text, especially the warning text in the intro, is very small and flickers. All the other text I encountered seemd completely fine and legible.
DXVK_FRAME_RATE=144 %command%
Heavy screen tearing even with vsync enabled; adding the launch option resolved the game speed issue, and alleviated most of the screen tearing, although it does still happen occasionally.
With vsync disabled, I can only describe it as the game running at "double speed", the menus, physics, everything. Enabling vsync resolved this, but resulted in very noticable screen tearing, which I fixed with the launch option.
little audio stuttering, almost
FPS drops on certain sections
works out of the box pretty easily at an constant 45 to 50 FPS with some slight drops, can even increase to 60 in certain situations or by lowering the settings, I played on the Medium preset.
battery life is quickly drained while playing it though so I recommend playing plugged in or setting up the TDP slider.
TDP limit 10, Manual GPU Clock 700
GOG version
-Using heroic launcher, Wine GE (Ignore proton version in this report, all Wine adjustment were made in Heroic, left Steam compatibility settings alone.)
In game setting:
Resolution: 1024x576 Vsync: Disabled Overall quality: Low
Steam OS: 45 FPS/Hz capped enabled TDP limit: 9 Manual GPU Overclock: 700 Scale: FSR (sharpness set to 1 but my personal preference)
Verdict: Very playable from start to end, no major issues with performance. Had some sound stuttering, did resolve itself after 20 seconds roughly.
Notes: 45FPS cap set via Heroic (Seems to be a bug where the game frame rate is still uncapped if set via SteamOS)
TDW 10
Audio disorted
GOG version of game
In game setting:
Resolution: 1024x576 Vsync: Disabled Overall quality: Low
Steam OS: 60hz plugged in or 40hz on battery TDP limit: 10 Manual GPU Overclock: 800 Scale: FSR (sharpness set to 1 but my personal preference)
Verdict: Plays amazing with no major issues with performance or gameplay. Only small audio stutter but goes away after 15 to 20 seconds.
Notes: 40FPS cap set via Heroic (Seems to be a bug where the game frame rate is still uncapped if set via SteamOS)
Game runs good, with some aliasing. You might have to go into the settings to find the best configuration.
Game runs with no issue in 2560x1440 resolution when I used windows. However, when running in linux, aliasing was noticeable and I had to go into the setttings multiple times to figure out the best configuration. Guess the issue is because I used a HIDPI monitor. After changing to the 3840x2160 resolution with some configurations within the game, it ran good but there were still some minor aliasings noticeable.
Good game
Completed the game and it worked flawleslly from start to finish.
Не ждите хорошей производительности. Игра плохо оптимизированна и вы получите стабильные 30 кадров, только на ммнималках.
Можно немного покопаться в настройках и добиться более менее стабильных 40 кадров, но только с помощью уменьшения разрешения и влючения фср.
Binded joystick clicks to back grip buttons for crouching and running.
Steam deck undervolted -30/-30/-30 - TDP at 10W
Outside of Proton Experimental, it is not working. Both stable proton and GE show a black screen instead of movies or the game. After manually selecting experimental - works flawless.
Strong and constant screen tearing. Oddly enough, it is a bit less pronounced with Vsync turned off, but this comes at a price of having no framerate cap. In my case this made the game run in over 120 fps on a 60 Hz monitor, effectively just wasting electricity and putting needless strain on my hardware. This issue might be inherent to the game and might not be related to Proton.
Seems to run better on Linux than on Windows!
This is one of the few games that I was playing before I switched over to Linux from Windows 10. Game seems to be running better on Linux than it did on Windows. This game should honestly be platinum. Everything works perfectly right out of the box!
Was about to complete the entire game again with zero issues.
Ran better on Linux than under Windows
Running under proton I saw smoother frametimes and better overall performance than in Windows. Great experience, everything worked flawlessly
Pinned GPU and enabled FSR
Pin GPU to a certain frequency to avoid lag spikes, have a more stable performance and avoid sudden frame drops. Can be pushed to a stable 40 FPS experience except for select instances by enabling FSR
No possible to reach 60 fps. It seems the game isn't well optimized. It doesn't matters if I set all low.
I had pretty annoying frame tearing issues regardless of the in-game VSync setting. Using the dxgi.syncInterval = 1 DXVK configuration file setting and disabling VSync in-game completely fixed it for me.
Worked without issues out of the box
Runs without issues with good performance, the videos are now working too.
Audio has micro-stutters
Pretty much perfect.
I played it with my old setup (which I haven't added here), but it was a 1080 TI and a high tier 4th gen i7. I only got 30 FPS at max settings 4K, which I thought was very little, but it turns out windows performs the exact same with this hardware after watching the digital foundry tech review.
Proton 3.16 Ficou ótimo o jogo
Acrescentei o arquivo de inicialização de vídeo de introdução do jogo ( https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/958-the-evil-within-2-intro-skip/) onde o pessoal reclamou então nem olhei se ia travar ou não pois acreditei nos colegas gamers aqui. Utilizei o Proton 3.16 da Steam Play e está rodando tudo legal até gora. Ótimo jogo com gráficos bacanas e uma história legal a respeito do personagem principal do jogo.
Bug won't allow them to play the game. If fixed, then yes!
Had to do the intro video skip fix (https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/958-the-evil-within-2-intro-skip/), but can't get pass opening tutorial (mirror doesn't crack like it should to allow progression).
Downloaded custom tango_logo.bk2 file and extracted to \base\bink
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/958-the-evil-within-2-intro-skip/
Skipped intro using method described here https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Evil_Within_2
Intro splash screen video plays back at 1fps so it must be skipped, but the actual game works fine past that.
As reported by others, the starting video is too slow (1 frame per second), but apply the fix described in here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Evil_Within_2 and you are good to go (dowload file tango_logo.bk2 and put it in game installation directory e.g. ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/TheEvilWithin2/base/bink)
