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Considering the fact that Cities: Skylines didn't really run at all on the Steam Deck and crashed the deck due to Memory Usage, Cities: Skylines 2 runs acutally quite well. With Graphics set to Very Low, you can expect between 15 and 30 FPS in a 15k People Town, which is enough for a city builder on the go and actually feels quite good and fluid on the deck imho.
Steam deck and proton are all up to date. Reinstalling and verifing didn't help. The graphics tool can be accessed, but changes in there don't help.
Sometimes you have to tap somewhere in the corner to position the invisible mouse coursor aways from ui elements, because it blocks controller inputs when it's on a menu item
Origin is a little bit annoying. But that's to be expected. When exiting the game you have to force close it from the overlay. Besides that it runs great
Feels stuttery, even though the framerate is constantly approaching 60 on low settings.
The usual forza multiplayer problems also experienced on windows
Once the weird stuttering experienced even though the framerate is good, this could be a great experience.
The Icons for the controls in game where not shown correctly, they are just shown as the steam icon. However the default layout is great and can be viewed in steam input overlay.
The game doesnt show the correct controller glyphs, it just shows the steam logo. But you can just look them up in steam input settings and it's pretty eas to get used to. Default layout is great on deck.
Had to move the game from sd-card to internal storage and back once to get the compatdata folder to the sc card to download the game to it.
Medium Graphics settings seems to be okay giving 30ish fps with world streaming enabled.
Had to move the game from sd-card to internal storage and back once to get the compatdata folder to the sc card to download the game to it.
-FastLaunch
The game cannot find any servers
Game seems to crash on launch sometimes, but adding -FastLaunch seems to fix this. Also, XBOX Login seems to be weird when using Microsoft Authenticator, it says to select the correct number on your phone but it does not display a number. So i just guessed until i found the correct number.
After the update published on 27th of April the game works fine now
You have to use the touchscreen for the initial graphics setting tool which pops up on launching. That's really the only complaint.
Framerate on low settings is great and game looks good. Lowering it improves battery life and looks worse, but it's and ok conpromise. Overall playability is great
Don't play the native Version. Basically use any Proton Version and your Experience will be better.
Launching strait from Steam with no config changes, Steam will launch the native version of the game. However, it has loads of issues. It does not launch in the correct aspect ratio, the controls don't really work, it has no sound and the performance is bad. Switching to any Proton Version (recommend 7.0-2) makes this game run great on linux/deck.
