nostromo
Published
Runs smooth right out of the box. Graphics settings were "Fullscreen", "1280x800", "Shadow Quality: Ultra", "Anti Aliasing: 4x", "Effects Quality: High", "VSync: Disabled". Maybe setting all of them to the max might have worked too, but I was happy with these settings, so I did not even try.
Sometimes, when the mouse-swarm-masses are getting too big, framerate can drop.
On rare occasions the power-shot sound (sounds like the crackling of fire) would not stop to loop, resulting in a constant background noise. Exiting to desktop and starting the game again fixed that problem.
I have over 200 hours of gameplay in AC:Odyssey and it was fun playing with the Steam deck. Surprisingly even the Ubisoft launcher did not cause any troubles with this game.
Ubisoft launcher needs fixing, as usual.
Sometimes the game would not shutdown properly, so had to force-quit it with STEAM+B.
Controllers worked as expected, in-game framerate limit set to 60 FPS, visual quality set to "High".
Runs perfectly fine on high graphical settings, V-Sync off, and 4x Anti-Aliasing, and (optionally) locking the framerate to 40 fps. As others have mentioned, the game freezes at certain points in the game for one or two seconds, but then continues without any problems. - maybe the engine loads something in the background.
Runs purrfectly out of the box. Resolution was set to "1280x800", window mode was "Fullscreen", quality to "High", and V-Sync was disabled. No problems during the entire play through.
Text is hard to read.
Had to adjust joystick sensitivity to get better movement.
Used steam's default Proton version, and the game ran without any problems.
After installing the Ubiconnect launcher via the Steam-desktop, everything ran perfectly fine. Even a few Ubiconnect upgrades were made without any troubles. I was positively surprised given the recent troubles I had with Ubiconnect over the past few years.
After increasing swap-space from the meager 1GB default to 16GB (8GB might also work I guess) the game ran like a charm - no freezing, no rebooting, no resetting of the steam-deck.
Then I also did a little tweaking as described in "https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/god-of-war-2018/#comment-1540".
From that point on, I finished the game without any problems.
After exiting the game from the in-game menu, it does not stop the game entirely (maybe some launcher not being stopped?). So I have to press "B" once more to stop and exit it, then I'm back to my library.
Frame-limit set to 30FPS.
Framerate drops, stuttering before using GE-Proton and graphics settings
Game crashed after cutscenes or when loading an old saved game.
RAM and swap consumption was massive.
Here's what helped me to get a stable gaming experience.
I noticed a huge increase in RAM usage after cutscenes, when loading the new level. Once RAM was all filled up, swap was used up to its maximum which then caused the steamdeck to freeze or reboot.
Since the default swap-size is 1GB for the steam-deck I created a secondary swap file and added it. With 16GB swap the game was able to load all new content after the cutscenes that previously caused crashes.
I also found these video settings in the game to get a good performance: "Screen Mode: Fullscreen", "V-Sync: Off", "Master Quality: Medium", "Upscale Mode: AMD FSR 2.1", "Upscaler Quality: Ultra Performance". Furthermore I always used DX11 instead of DX12.
This unfortunately reduces the beautiful sceneries in the game to not so beautiful images, but at least with all these tinkerings I was able to avoid crashes, FPS drops, and I could finish the game.
I had to set all graphic settings to low, to get a decent stable framerate.
Set graphic settings to low, and you're good to go.
Had no problems running the game with all the default settings and Steam's recommended Proton version.
bash -c 'exec "${@/2KLauncher\/LauncherPatcher.exe/TheQuarry.exe}"' -- %command% -force-vulkan
Had texture problems (like in the character's face) until i switched launch option from "-dx12" to "-force-vulkan". This fixed the texture problems.
Ran perfectly fine right out of the box. No tinkering or fiddling with D3DX11 needed, or being forced to use Proton_GE.
The game itself runs smoothly out of the box. As usual, Ubisoft launcher does not work without a fix.
Unfortunately UPlay needs to be fixed as usual. Install a current "Ubisoft Connect" in desktop mode, then replace the files in the "Ubisoft Game Launcher" folder of the game with the one from the "Ubisoft Connect" installation.
