Cyrano
Published
Works great right out of the box. I'm getting a pretty consistent 40fps on medium settings. Pull the AA up to high - it doesn't affect frame rate that much but it helps a lot with items that have a lot of parallel lines (e.g. corrugated metal) looking right.
The only slowdowns I've noticed are in some of the in-base menus, where somtimes it will dip into the high 20s. Still totally playable, not disruptive.
Great game for the deck.
Works great, the initial launcher setup is a little annoying but after first launch that stops being a thing.
Enabled gamepad support from inside the game options.
Use either the touch screen or a community layout to navigate the main menu to the controller options. From there select gamepad as your control layout, and from there it just works. Minor annoyance on the front end but one that takes all of a couple of seconds to resolve. Once you've got it set up, you're good to go. If you changed the control scheme (e.g. to enable trackpad mouse) switch back to the default, official layout once you have controller enabled.
I was surprised how well it worked. All settings on low, but it looked pretty decent. FPS wasn't great but it never got unplayable. Indoors and in simple scenes I was getting 30 FPS more often than not. Complex scenes outdoors with lots of other characters milling around (e.g. in a city) it would drop to the 22-25 FPS range. Once in a while if a lot of effects were going off at once (gunfire, grenades) in a big, complex setting I'd see it hit the high teens.
Not great, but not terrible. Playable. This isn't a twitch shooter in the first place, so while a little annoying at times it's something you can live with to play Stellaris on an airplane or taking a dump or whatever.
I'm hoping we get some performance optimizatoins down the road, this game runs like garabage on much more robust hardware. If that happens it could very positively affect the Deck as well.
The only real issue is how much battery it hoovers down. I'd say about an hour and a half of play time.
