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You really have to WANT to play NW on the Deck to justify the experience, best for farming materials or low intensity quests/combat.
You need to seperately download the EAC runtime from Steam, Deck needs to be on 2.4 ghz wifi network (or potentially wired?).
Low settings, capped FPS in game, capped FPS and refresh rate in Deck menu.
Game is not optimized for low resolution and small screens. Text is sometimes small, pixilated, breaks awkwardly, etc.
Won't load in big cities, performance suffers as more objects are on screen, etc.
Crashes in large cities.
Game can't connect while using 5ghz wifi, won't connect if in a large city, may crash in large cities.
A bit laggy, even in unpopulated areas. Even compaired to the baseline New World experience.
ProtonGE fixes one issue, introduces another. Neither were major issues. Stability and performance otherwise similar.
Audio missing from cutscene movies, haven't noticed any other audio issues.
Needs some options changed in the graphics menu, otherwise drops frames and below 30 FPS. Defaulted to a non-native resolution on the steam deck.
ProtonGE allows the movie cutscenes to play, but audio is missing. Default Steam Deck Proton plays some movies properly with audio, but others just give a test screen. I'd consider these minor issues, especially considering DW cutscenes aren't exactly impressively directed or written. Minor changes in the options menu to get a playable FPS without frame drops (for example turning AA off and setting the resolution to Steam Deck's native). Further testing, both with and without ProtonGE, and a longer playthrough might reveal additional issues or tweaks needed for stability. Didn't put in much time, plan on returning to it for some mindless fun.
