
Watt
Published
Aside from the performance issues, game seems to run stable and bug free, but I cannot recommend it as it runs unplayably slow.
Game runs at 10-20FPS at minimum settings but only utilizes 30% of the CPU and 60% of the GPU with a mere 5GB VRAM usage. Game is far from being bottlenecked by hardware yet refuses to utilize it.
Extremely spotty performance once you get far enough into the game where no amount of tinkering seems to do anything.
MANGOHUD=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%
Enabling mangohud for whatever reason made the game stop recognising my gamepad.
Noticeable frame drops when switching between real time and pre-rendered scenes. Massive performance degradation with no graphical settings having any effect after reaching the village of Lostwind about 4 hours into the game. This is accompanied with a massive drop in 1% FPS lows and extremely uneven frame times. This is accompanied with very low utilization of the CPU/GPU (30-60% at most) implying there's some sort of bottleneck that both are waiting on, and it's not read speed related as this occurs even when standing still so no additional assets are being loaded(disk utilization is also minimal at that time).
Worth noting that common tweaks such as FFXVIfix or changing the DLSS dll to a newer one or modifying the process priority(niceness on linux) doesn't seem to do anything.
Now onto my speculation since this is not exclusive to this game. This is the exact same behavior exhibited by Dragon's Dogma 2 on launch, low GPU/CPU utilization with settings having little to no effect, across different games, across different hardware and even OS(as this also seems to be the case on Windows on this laptop too). The only common factor is that both games utilize Denuvo Anti-tamper, and my only guess is that both games do not utilize hardware properly because the processes are waiting on something, probably decrypting/reencrypting blocks of instructions or phoning home or whatever. But again this is purely speculation on my end, do not take it as fact.
SteamDeck=0 %command%
Keyboard Text input does not work if playing in Desktop Mode on the deck. Setting an environment variable forcing the game as if it isn't on a Steam Deck is required to remedy this.
LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8 LC_ALL=bg_BG.UTF-8 HOST_LC_ALL=bg_BG.UTF-8 %command%
Command line options are to ensure game sees you as the correct region as it uses your locale variables for that, other than that no tweaking required really, Proton Hotfix is the default version Steam uses for the game.