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If you remember to save frequently, you can enjoy this game quite well. I, however, can't remember to save frequently
spatial audio is often weird, conversation volumes are sometimes too quiet
frequent crashes after alt+tab
Very rarely crakling would come and go for a few seconds
Not a single crash for entire 100+ hour playthrough
Steam Deck LCD running Bazzite:42. Completed the game with ~80hours. Used Heroic Games Launcher to install KCD from GOG. UMU + Proton9-04 (not even ProtonGE). Launched the game once from HGL in desktop mode to install dependencies, then always launched from Game Mode on Steam Deck.
Game runs at about 40fps at (mostly) Medium Settings with native resolution. 40Hz/40fps lock.
During large battles, I decreased to 960x600 resolution with the Steam Performance Scaling Filter set to SHARP (formerly FSR). Honestly, I can barely tell the difference—game still looks great at 960x600 with FSR upscaling, which is a pleasant surprise.
Settings:
-Antialiasing: 1X
-Vegetation Detail: Low
-Object Distance: About 60–70% of the slider
-LOD Distance: 50% of the slider
-Motion Blur: Off
-Everything else: Medium
Runs faster than on windows, although I had to research a while to find the fix for the missing audio related to wine's pulse audio
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winepulse.drv=" %command%
intro videos did not play but I was able to skip to title screen with esc. No audio at all.
Would not run on more CPU cores than 64, had to limit cores on startup, as a side note taskset -c does not work, use the WINE env.
PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV RADV_PERFTEST=gpl __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=64:0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63 gamemoderun mangohud %command%
After the tinkering with startup options the game works very well.
Works perfectly out of the box
No crashes, even heavily modded.
Force close Steam
Double input
Bought the game through GoG and installed via Heroic, playing via desktop. Heroic took care of everything including dependencies.
Upon reaching the main menu, I noticed that the D-pad was skipping options. Started a new game and controls felt very strange. Eventually figured out that the game was detecting two inputs for everything.
After lots of troubleshooting (via in game and SteamOS), forced close Steam from the system tray icon. Now the controls function correctly and smoothly, no other issues.
The audio is sometimes very quiet, even on the highest volume levels. I'm not sure if this is an issue with my setup, but I don't have this problem in other games.
It runs perfectly fine with a very good framerate even on the highest settings.
Runs flawlessly
A really good medieval game with a good story.
mangohud ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command% -devmode
Great out of the box experience. GE is not needed. Once i noticed this plays better on Linux than on Windows, i actually completed playing the story on Linux. Really great experience. Even installing mods was no problem.
Flawless out of the box! Great game and great support for Proton!
Great to play this game on Linux! No more Windows! Works flawless ! 4k all ultra resolution!
The Epic version of the game does not run on Linux! On the other hand, the Steam version runs perfectly. Don't buy it on Epic! This is a warning. Get it on Steam as there are no problems there.
gamemoderun %command% +exec user.cfg
Game crashed frequently. Every couple of hours or so,sometimes more.Was not able to find any useful logs,tried multiple proton versions including experimental,stable, ge nothing works
Move all files in "localisation" folde to "Localisation" folder
Out of box without tinkering runs really well
Sometimes when loading the game audio would not work. ALT-Tabbing a few times resolves or switching audio devices to something else and back again
Very minor and infrequent texture loading/streaming. Randomly, chickens are invisible for me which made it difficult to feed them as part of Theresa's quest. One cutscene everything except the characters was a black texture. Only happened once though.
Once in a while the game will crash to the desktop. Not frequent enough to be a major problem, maybe once every few hours.
Has some minor issues but nothing super serious. This is without any tinkering, out of box. Game runs really well
Plays amazingly. Compared to Windows 11 on the same PC on a different SSD, to me it seems the performance and stability is better on Linux than Windows.
gamemoderun &command&
Unsure if that's the games problem or wayland/hyprland. When switching between workspaces, the audio just stops playing. Entering pause menu and switching workspaces a couple of times fixes this.
Some flickering here and there. Nothing major. The only issue that was visibly disturbing was Radzig's model not loading the correct LOD during cutscene which resulted in a scuffed Sir Radzig with no eyebrows. That has happened only once though and I'm somewhere in the middle of the game probably.
At least once a day I'm getting a complete freeze when trying to fast travel. Completely random and I don't know any workarounds for this.
Great game, works almost smoothly. If the occasional crashes and some flickering is the price of not using windows then I'll happily pay it.
Text is small in menus and in-game documents.
The game runs well out of the box. Medium settings will net you around 40fps while low settings will have you reach 60fps. The city of Rattay can be a bit of a bottleneck regardless of your settings so expect a few drops here but they're not a problem gameplay wise.
The main issue with the game is that it eats the GPU out, which means the fans are almost always blasting and the Steam Deck heating. I personally set the game to medium (while raising the draw distance a bit) with 2x antialiasing then capped it at 30fps. I then reduced the TDP to 12 and the GPU speed to 1200mhz. Performance is solid like this and the game looks great while the Steam Deck remains silent (except, oddly enough, when in the menus). However, it can induce rare crashes during larger story battles with lots of NPCs (such as the one in the bandit encampment midway through the game). Those are uncommon and the game saves before them, so if you encounter any, just remove the TDP and GPU caps while they last. I assume setting the game to low with the same caps could easily give you 40fps as well. Depends if you want your console to be silent and have decent battery life or not. Texts are also a bit small on the screen.
Overall a good experience with some tweaks depending on your preferences, but the game runs well otherwise, aside from its known graphical or quest bugs that have been here in every version since release. It's a rough gem that I highly recommence, especially if you plan on trying the second one which apparently irons out a lot of the first's technical issues, GPU usage included.
No tinkering required, finished the entire game. without problems.
Occasionally audio would disappear on alt-tab, repeating it a couple of times fixed the issue.
GOG version of Game runs well on Deck, but would not initially start. Had to change launch options.
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1
Books text is small, used zoom to read
Run GOG version through Heroic, and it gave an unsupported GPU error. Had to add the start option listed to get the game to run. Game runs pretty well beyond that.
