Deckmeschik
Published
You have to sit up to make gyro controls work
If you're planning to play or have tried to play on Steam Deck and quit because of the controls then just sit up when gyro inputs appear. When you're lying down and holding it up to your face it messes with the gyro controls and guarantees you fail every QTE no matter how close you think you're following the input. They were intended for a controller held parallel to the floor. You don't need a custom control scheme, you don't need to connect any extra peripherals, you just need to hold your Deck so that you're looking down on it. Yes, it sounds like bullshit, but people on the Internet are still complaining about how the controls are broken and they're wrong. Don't listen to bedridden gamers.
Can't hold a steady 60 FPS presumably due to post-processing (Unity)
Follow the legendary PC Gaming Wiki tip and add these lines to boot.config located in the installation directory to get a slight FPS boost and reduce stutter:
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
Drop your graphics settings to Medium in game (it looks fine, but sometimes textures will take a couple of seconds to pop in), set the FPS limit to 30 in Performance overlay to prevent your frames wildly jumping from 60 to 45 to 30 all the time (you will notice it and it will ruin your perception of performance, so just cap the frame rate, no need to use in-game vsync - there will be no tearing and also no choppy framerate).
Runs OK with a stable 30 FPS 95% of the time, playable from start to finish without any crashes or freezes, but be wary that after playing for a long time load times may increase and some indoor sequences may chug frames - just try to make it to a save point and restart the game if that happens to keep your progress.
This is a great game and I did not expect to enjoy it this much on the Deck. Gamepad controls are a bit clunky but it never gets too life-threatening, you don't lose that much speed compared to keyboard and mouse in intense situations.
A cult classic, not for everyone. Your biggest hurdle will be getting the controls to feel right
had to change in-game bindings to match the community layout
Play in 800x600 for better text readability, it gets a bit blurry in widescreen for no reason
Steam keyboard flickers wildly on screen when changing key bindings in game, may lock up your controls and force to restart
Any issues you may have with the game come from the game itself, not from how it runs on deck
