
Mason
Published
In order to play this on a SteamDeck ou need to install the GE version of proton. I used GE-Proton7-28 which through ProtonUp-QT from the built in Discover pacakge manager on desktop mode.
Performance isn't the best, but it works fine.
I don't have a Windows install currently to compare to, but I'm getting 60-90 FPS in 4v4 multiplayer matches with a mix of high and medium settings on 1440p.
I'd expect 90 to be the floor there, not the ceiling.
I got a crash once while booting the game, but relaunching worked correctly.
Halo Infinite has some desync problems and some lag, but that has nothing to do with Proton. Windows players gripe about it frequently.
Works great so long as resizeable bar is not enabled
I posted a report yesterday complaining about bad performance, but I discovered today that in the vkd3d-proton github repo they mention there's a Halo Infinite CPU performance bug when Resizeable Bar is enabled. I went into my BIOS and disabled it, and voila, my framerates shot up around 50% higher than before. I'm also getting just generally smoother performance, including no desync in multiplayer. I'm very happy.
By default, my BIOS and most other people's BIOS' have Resizeable Bar disabled, so I actually don't consider this to be a tinker step, since I actually was undoing a tinker step I did previously and forgot about.
Runs well on high settings, looks great
The game sometimes crashed on launch. Trying again usually fixed it. As far as I'm aware, it's the same on Windows.
I'm using the patch that released on May 2nd, no special tinkering. Raytracing and FSR2 even work. Sometimes crashes on startup but other than that it's rather solid on my machine.
It's important to restart the game if you change any graphical settings. Also, you will want to wait a little bit after loading in to asses the changes you made, since while it streams in assets after booting, you will see lower quality textures, but they clear up soon and that's the case on Windows too.
The whole experience on Linux for me appears to be about the exact same or better than what Windows people are reporting. All the problems present are problems with the game itself, and those appear to be much better already than at launch.