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it helps to change the right pad to a mouse, because some menus only respond to mouse inputs. I also adjusted the triggers for the response to be roughly the same throw as the bumpers, with the grips and right stick to be nudging. You can find my layout under "adjusted triggers" in the community layouts
I just use experimental out of habit. The game has run flawlessly since the Proton 6.0 days, before the Deck even launched. I whole heartedly recommend this one, especially because the devs keep releasing new free tables
Significant frame drops at specific areas, consistently, if using native Proton. I didn't check if this fix also works for the latest full release, or experimental, but with GE-Proton7-49, if under Power management you enable tearing, it stops the frame drops.
If McPig is reading this, the specifics are as follows. Across both Proton Experimental, and GE-Proton7-49, the areas that I tested were Pizzascape, Wasteyard, and Fast Food Saloon. While frame drops can occur anywhere in the game, in vanilla settings, those three consistently would frame drop at specific areas. Fast Food Saloon I remember off the top of my head, so you can test for yourself. It drops at the first horse race, but with my settings it no longer drops.
Not a big deal in casual play, but going for P Ranks it made it thoroughly unpleasant to attempt, but now it's great on Deck.
random slowdowns on every version of Proton
I figured out what fixes the random slowdowns. If you open the power management menu, whatever the menu the three dots button opens, it instantly stops chugging and dropping frames. I have no idea why this happens, but hopefully McPig can use that information to deduce what's going on, assuming they want it to be verified on Deck.
just various tweaks like adjusting trigger response and re-mapping them to shoulder buttons, as well as disabling stick super jump
set GPU Clock Speed to 700
fixed in the notes
Open the power menu, set GPU Clock Speed to 700. I initially set it lower, and experimented in the areas listed in my earlier reports, increased it by 100, and kept checking until I found more slowdown. 600 is almost flawless, but Crust Cove and getting hit by Pepperman caused slowdown still. 700, however, plays exactly the same as my Windows desktop plays, so far. Enough so that I was comfortable going for P Ranks on the Deck, where before the slowdown detracted enough I'd avoid so.
What I think is going on is the Deck is setting the clock speed lower than the game actually needs, and getting throttled when the action slightly increases. If you're worried about the battery life, I get somewhere between 5 to 6 hours of Pizza Tower on a full charge, at 700hz. Which I've only gotten better hours with Planescape, which runs at literally 15 fps, with barely any animations, so that's kind of hard to beat.
Right Trigger = Run L4 = Body_Slam B = Taunt Directional Super Jump = Off
I've tested multiple levels that specifically gave me significant slowdown before, and none of them chugged for even a second. It plays noticeably smoother now, presumably thanks to whatever further tricks Glorious Eggroll has implemented alongside Wine 8 staging, but needless to say it runs supremely smooth now. You can check my previous reports for verification on how particular and diligent I've been with this, and that it runs perfectly now.
I will continue to test levels, but as of writing not a single one has once dropped frames.
changed trackpad to work as mouse. Put L3 on L4, R3 on R4, and magnifier on R5
only technically, because of the resolution and graphical tweaks. See notes for further details.
Much of the text is made for reading on a full monitor. Mapping the magnifier is recommended.
I made the folowing graphical changes:
For Snowrunner's options:
-Display Mode: Fullscreen
-Display Resolution: 1024 x 576
-Sharpening: Off
-Effects Quality: Medium
-Texture Filtering: x2
Steam Deck's performance options:
-Per-game profile
-Disable Frame Limit
-Allow Tearing
-Half Rate Shading
-Scaling Filter: FSR, sharpness 5
Anything not mentioned was left unchanged.
For performance it gives an incredibly smooth gameplay experience, rarely ever dips down, and as long as you play on the Deck itself, the visuals aren't really discernibly different from standard Medium settings, with linear scaling and standard performance settings. I think if you used some of those screen glasses, or an external monitor, this would obviously look pretty bad compared to the stock settings, but on the tiny 800p Deck screen it looks good.
But Snowrunner is also an incredibly slow paced game. If you favor graphical fidelity, I can confirm the game also plays fine, and never dips further, if you use stock Medium/Performance settings, and hard cap the FPS in game at 30. Of note, I'm talking strictly about using the in game FPS limit, using Valve's will induce input latency.
In short, use my settings if you want smoother gameplay, use the stock settings hard capped to 30 if you want better graphics.
