Samuel
Published
Great game to play on the Deck, set the graphic settings to medium, lower the TDP to 8 and set fps limit to 30 or 40. Good battery life.
TDP lowered to 8
Crackling audio after resuming sleep mode.
Some slowdowns during some dungeons and open world sections of the game.
The Steam Deck remains as the perfect platform for playing the Utawarerumono series, 100% recommended.
Lowered TDP limit to 7w. Got around 7 hours of battery.
Played through the entirety of Trails of Cold Steel on Steam Deck OLED and had a smooth and pleasant experience. I didn't have some of the problems listed by other users like crackling audio after exiting sleep mode but I did experience two crashes right before saving the game (the game saves before crashing so it's nothing serious).
My suggestion is to lower the TDP to 7w and set the fps limit to 45, great battery life and performance.
I had some problems with diagonal movement, which caused the character to walk slowly instead of running, this might be caused because the game was developed for PS Vita and it might have carried some problems with the controller when the game was ported to PC. The solution is simple: go to controller settings (just select the controller icon placed next to the cog icon before starting the game) then press on edit and go to joysticks, select the settings icon on the left joystick and you will see an option called Stick Response Curve, just select aggressive and the diagonal movement issue will be fixed.
Lowered TDP limit to 7w.
If you previously played Trails of Cold Steel I and want to transfer the save data you will need to do so in your Pc because the transfer will not work with Steam Deck. Just install the game on Pc, start a new game and when prompted transfer the save data, save the game and you will have you data transfered.
Just like Cold Steel, I'm having a flawless experience. Only things I changed were the TDP limit to 7w, changed the controller layout to the community one called Trails of cold steel II binding in order to have the turbo mode mapped on right trigger and changed the Stick Response Curve to Aggressive to solve an issue with diagonal movement. Only thing I noticed is that when exiting the game from ingame menu it will crash, nothing major because it does what you want it to do which is exit the game.
Made changes to map the turbo button to R4 button (the one on the back)
Set TDP limit to 8, got around 8 hours of battery.
The CP bar was hard to read, aside from that some minor UI Elements that were hard to read too.
Crackling audio after coming back from sleep mode. A restart fixes this problem.
I had a very pleasant experience playing this game, it runs pretty well and plays incredible on the Deck, just make some tweaks to get that turbo button where you want (the default is the L3 stick button and you have to keep it pressed so it's rather annoying).
Runs great OOTB, really good experience on the Deck. Amazing VN to immerse yourself and enjoy an incredible story.
TDP Limit set to 5, FPS set to 30.
TDP limit set to 5, fps to 30.
Crackling audio during the opening sequence.
