raylinth
Published
Occasional freezing after cutscens.
35-40 fps consistency
In-game: D3D11. Set windowed: 1066x666. Anti-Aliasing: High. All settings: Low. FSR v2.1.1
Deck: FSR at 5. 40Hz limit.
4 watt TDP for improved battery life
Perfect
Lower resolution + FSR can make a difference on battery while looking just as good.
FFX worked with any version of proton but X-2 only worked with 6.3-8 and no launch options. Before that change X-2 would crash on boot. It's fully playable at this version.
Audio missing from starting cutscene but fine in game.
Only supports 16:9 aspect ratio, which looks fine with black bars.
Had issues with push to talk not alwasy registering with L1, so made that always on for a better experience. Radio was fine, also mapped it to L4. I found opening doors difficult, made better by mapping A to R4. (so thumb can stay on right-stick as you "swing" the door open holding button)
Since menus are mouse-centric, that was made better by making R5 left click and using both trackpads as mousepads.
Darkness of gameplay basically requires full screen brightness, changing resolution for battery life and performance, detailed below..
Windowed mode was required for proper FSR.
Mic push to talk was inconsitent (might be the game itself) - always on mic was better experience. Weirdly, push-to-talk radio (which is required) has no issues.
While the game in most houses ran at stable 60FPS, the campsite caused the deck to struggle sub 30fps.
For 3+ hours of battery life, visually comparable, set graphics to..
- 960x600 @60hz
- Fullscreen Mode (windowed) (required to enable FSR properly)
- Shadow Resolution: Medium
With the steam menu..
- Lock refresh rate 50
- FSR (scaling factor)
Do NOT change "half rate shading", makes text on boards and devices less readable due to aliasing
Game appears to freeze when loading, this is on all platforms. Playing online with someone on a steam deck, a computer, and VR is a trip and works... as well as this janky game already works, which is quite good.
Extremely fun to play on steamdeck (recommend headphones) and linux desktop environment.
decky - powertools governor powersave, or the game runs at 100% throttle when it's unnecessary
To fix red lines on train after second character is introduced, GE-Proton7-49.
BE PATIENT - had to wait 5 minutes on first launch (spinning steam logo) to boot this version of proton-GE. It's likely silently doing a 2GB shader cache download.
For earlier missions which are guns only, gyro is helpful
Luxtorpeda is an alternative to proton when a game has a linux engine replacement. Luxtorpeda is installable from protonup-qt. When Jedi Outcast 2 or Acdemy is set to Luxtorpeda (via force compatability), it will download OpenJK which is a native linux game engine for these games (it does not support multiplayer unforunately). OpenJK works perfectly well on steam deck. This is honestly a pretty cool compatability option I just learned about and played about 2 hours into the game.
See more games supported by luxtorpeda - https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda
Don't expect to push outside of low. That said locking in 30fps/30hz is good - some occasional dips. Some indoor areas may reach 40 but most of this game is vast and open, so I would just lock at 30. ((As a side note, streaming with steamlink or moonlight/sunshine is how I actually play at high/60fps/800p - HOWEVER this is a report for native steam deck play. ))
