cammelspit
Published
Unusable
Open mic mode does not work so u less you plan on putting actual mp3s on your steam decks limited storage, you will only be able to use the built in tracks and that's a massive bummer.
Had to invoke the KB manually and use the touch screen to navigate
IMHO, the game is well and truly unplayable at the framerates you can achieve with the deck, or really any handheld PC. you are looking at the lowest possible graphics quality the engine can give you and you will be very lucky to get 24fps. For a first person shooter game, this is just not usable. Performance very regularly dips well below and can sit in the mid to low teens, 10-15 FPS range in battles. This is literally N64 FPS or lower in most cases.
For a game that is deck verified, it's pretty funny how bad it runs even using the Steam Deck preset. If this is what the developers think is a usable experience in any capacity I would strongly disagree.
As with many old pc games, community patches can and do enhance the game a lot but in this case are technically not required for proper functionality.
Works well but with significant performance issues, thankfully the steam deck has FSR built in.
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Had to enable mouse on right pad with pad click as mouse click. Some menus cannot be navigated unless you use proper mouse controls and touch screen only works in launcher.
Glyphs are wildly inaccurate and should be ignored.
Performance lags well behind what would be expected from a game that looks so dated. In order to achieve a smooth 60 frames per second I ended up having to go all the way down to 640 by 400 resolution and very low details otherwise I would end up with severe stuttering depending on the track being played.
Once you have set up the settings so that you can achieve good performance and understand the control limitations with the game, it's actually quite enjoyable, even considering how dated the game can look.
Changed game resolution to 1280 x 800 for resolution support over 640 x 480.
Game Resolution setting
This game uses a launcher. For ease of use I recommend permanently altering the standard gamepad controls in order to allow mouse control on one of the track pads or with the gyro and mouse clicking. Alternatively you can hold steam button and use the trackpad as mouse at all times steam button plus right trigger is mouse click and steam button Plus right on the d-pad is enter. As a tertiary option, you can navigate the launcher and alter settings exclusively through the touchpad.
The game works flawlessly with graphic settings maxed and at native resolution for the steam deck with a flawless 60 frames per second at all times with literally zero stutters. The only consideration is controls and that's only because graphic settings and some other things like that are configured in a launcher window that only works with mouse input, not gamepad input. But if you've played around with the steam deck or the steam controller or really any kind of steam input any reasonable amount you should be well versed in these kinds of minor hiccups and how easy they are to bypass or work around. Overall the experience with this game is essentially flawless.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d8,dinput8,ddraw=n,b" gamemoderun %COMMAND%
Installed mod to add proper xinput support.
Some missing bands between geometry but it's slight.
Mod for xinput
Crashes are infrequent but seem to happen more often as you do more and more missions during any one play session.
Go out is fine but the script that the definitive edition mod adds for right stick camera turning like the console version has, causes a severe but that locks Claude in place when zooming with sniper rifle and also rockets making some missions impossible to complete. You MUST disable this mod which returns the camera behavior back to the way the PC version works stock but it's not hard to get used to and for me at least is how I have always played this game. All other mods can remain enabled, see other reports on how to get the game working well with the mods. Only one text file needed altering and was easy to find, I just don't recall which one it was to disable what you need to. Alternatively you can just go right to installing mods manually one at a time and just stop at ginput for controls.
Game has very few graphics settings, at their lowest settings could not achieve stable 60 FPS. Drops below 30, common.
Generally speaking the frame rates on this game would stay above 40 most of the time but there were frequent drops below 30. The steam decks hardware is just not capable of running this game at full quality at full frame rate. Unfortunately there is very little you can do about this because the game has almost no graphical options at all. The game itself is likely relatively unoptimized, but it does look great for what it is.
After tinkering it works perfectly otherwise. You can either use the native Linux built or for proton to use Windows build.
All audio completely missing if launched as is without tinkering.
Controls as mapped by default using the official layout are simply unusable. You can't even navigate menus as it is without using a separate mouse. In steam deck this means you are gonna have to map the mouse to something or use one of the much better community layouts.
Just a tiny bit of choppiness, using Linux native build.
Substantial control weirdness for this game. I had to set the joystick sensitivity for turning in steam input to extra wide and the in game sensitivity to the lowest setting to approach anything resembling usability.
I highly recommend having mouse mapped for one of the track pads, arrow keys on the doad, and escape and return mapped to select and start respectively. You will likely want to leave the rest of the co trolls gamepad but will then need to bind all the controls yourself manually in the in-game menu.
This game uses dinput and not native xinput so the L and R triggers are combined into one axis. I didn't have any issues setting these to acceleration and reversing but having something like the bumpers mapped as backups is a good idea too.
This game uses the term GEAR in the co trolls menu, this is actually accelerate and is analog sensitive when mapped to the trigger(s). The response curve though is super wide so you will likely want to fine tune that in the Steam overlay.
Default gamma setting for this game is very bad for the steam deck LCD screen. Will want to lower this to have a much better experience.
Game needs to be set to fulls teen mode (default) in the in-game options otherwise switching resolutions becomes problematic.
Your game and also your settings changes for the game will NOT be saved automatically at the time you make a change. Youust quit the game only using the in-game menu for anything to be saved. It is highly recommended that you quit the game this way and launch it again after any modifications to the settings.
Other than the co trolls issues, this game does not support widescreen resolutions. This isn't a compatibility thing and is normal for the game. On the deck I recommend setting the resolution to 1024x768 to avoid stretching the whole game and then disabling the on s reen map because it is HUGE and takes up a great deal of screen real estate while providing negligable benefit of any at all. I have not had time to research widescreen support for this game yet but may indeed be possible with some tinkering.
Cannot launch Linux native build from the deck UI. Have to force proton for the game to work at all which uses the Windows build. However, once you do this, it's just perfect with basically any random version of proton.
Basically the game has no official or community layouts regardless of the co troller type used. You will need to bring everything yourself but this game oddly uses the mouse to play.
Used compatibility options to use native dosbox
Rhythmic pulsing drop out like it's only playing 50% of the time.
Even though it was playable with the most up oted community config, I didn't prefer many of the oddities it had. Having to hold the left stick to run in ROTT was pretty silly. I didn't change it drastically or anything but it was refined a lot. Grips and gyros were also disabled so I enabled those for refined aiming and stuff like that.
Other than the controlls stuff. The first time I launched the game, after.aelecting a game in the launcher, it went to a black screen. After quitting and opening it back up again, no further issues were observed. Seems to have been a one off since it's been perfect since then.
Used for pressing 5 to save and 6 to load.
Cutscenes don't work properly when using the glorious egg roll versions of proton. When you use a non GE version of proton, which very few actually work, the whole viewport is very washed out colors are muted textures are very muddy, moreso than the PS1 or Saturn versions have.
When using proton GE versions, the game and cutscenes work but the game runs with unacceptably bad frame rates in the low 10s at times.
This game is a dos game. The steam version of this game uses a integrated version of dosbox that has 3D effects acceleration so that you get GPU acceleration in the game. There are a lot of problems when running Windows dosbox games through proton. There are compatibility applications that you can use that will allow the use of native Linux dosbox, including more recent versions, from within steam.
If you're just loading this game up straight on the deck, chances are it's not going to work. From my testing, normal proton versions mostly will work with the FMV sequences but will crash before loading any in-game 3D areas. Secondarily you can use the GE versions of proton, but the cutscenes won't play though the 3D areas will load but with intensely terrible performance.
Another alternative is to use a custom build of dosbox or a more updated build of the windows version of dosbox and to place that over the one provided with the game, I have not done this specifically but you may be able to find a combination of proton and dosbox versions that work better, or even perfectly?
The solution that I ended up settling on is the luxorpedia solution. In essence this is an application that uses its own scripts on certain specific titles in order to run them with things like for sports or other special environments.
The steps to reproducing my setup are quite simple.
Firstly, switch to desktop mode because it's easier this way.
Secondly, if you haven't already go to the discover store and install an application called ProtonUp-qt. Essentially all this application does is it is a nice convenient way to install other compatibility layers into steam, if you have installed the GE versions of proton you're probably familiar with this app already.
Thirdly, launch the application, then you're going to want to install luxorpedia from within it.
Fourthly, going ahead and drop back to game mode and enter the settings for tomb raider. Go on ahead and enable a compatibility mode and if you did it right you should see luxorpedia as an option, select that.
Just like that, we're done! Go on ahead and start the game, what you'll notice is luxorpedia will go on ahead and download some things run some scripts in the background and basically get the game set up for you. What it's doing is it's downloading and installing openlara which is an incredibly impressive multiplatform source port. Unfortunately, you lose the cutscenes but the game should play properly, even using xinput.
All fixed by all others on this page for this game were useless in getting this game working, totally booked. Spent over an hour trying to get it going to no avail.
Some text very hard to read.
Runs like garbage no matter the GFX settings. Simply not a smooth or remotely enjoyable performance level.
Typical ea account login shenanigans.
One off freeze when waking from sleep with no Internet when I had a connection putting my steam deck to sleep causing the ea login window to appear but never resolve.
Other than the typical EA app login shenanigans, the game ran perfectly start to finish with only the most occasional of tiny stutters when loading another area, keep in mind I did run this game off the SD card. Highly recommended.
