60fps fix for Steam Deck on 3.6.x

[Bill]

I think I saw a thread many months ago where someone posted about this issue in Game Mode. This game uses OpenGL 3.2 and there seems to be some OpenGL regressions in new Steam OS version.

Anyway, the fix: change your game's launch command to:
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink %command%

This will switch to Zink, which uses Vulkan to render OpenGL and that should fix it.

[Jopz]

This worked!! Thank you

Ps. Man I love the Steamdeck community

[Knight Terror]

Thank you!

[Hiecchi]

Thank you
Played the first game a year ago and I knew that the game worked with 60fps

[MODCA]

It worked! Thank you!
Man it feels so nice to be able to walk at a decent pace now.

[Xeilua]

Holy crap, this worked! Copied exactly into "Launch Options" and now I'm running around in Kowloon Lv.5 at 60 FPS and that abnormally slow player movement is gone.

Thank you, OP! This thread should be pinned for Steam Deck users.

[Rinaldus]

Tried this and game fails to boot with it. What proton are you guys using?

[Rinaldus]

Nvm, I forgot a space!! It works!!! You're a freaking king, dude. Thanks so much!

[CyborgR]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rinaldus:

Nvm, I forgot a space!! It works!!! You're a freaking king, dude. Thanks so much!

Where did you put that space? Mine is crashing too on startup.

[Rinaldus]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Rinaldus:

Nvm, I forgot a space!! It works!!! You're a freaking king, dude. Thanks so much!

Where did you put that space? Mine is crashing too on startup.

after zink and before %command%

[stratzilla]

Wow, thanks for this. I spent like 5 hours wondering why remote play controls wouldn't work because native on Deck was <45fps throughout pretty much and now it's almost locked 60fps at 3w max TDP.

[naruto020499]

If you use this https://github.com/SydMontague/DSCSModLoader and the launch command you can get 90 fps on oled deck.

[zeek303]

for 2025 players coming to this and having problems, I entered the run command but still couldn't get it to load. However once I forced it to load on older proton versions it finally worked. I started at 3.0 and working my way up to 3.13-6 and its working at about 45 FPS.

[Ceiyne]

Just wanted to say thank you for posting this!

[shAKAbrah97]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Bill:

I think I saw a thread many months ago where someone posted about this issue in Game Mode. This game uses OpenGL 3.2 and there seems to be some OpenGL regressions in new Steam OS version.

Anyway, the fix: change your game's launch command to:
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink %command%

This will switch to Zink, which uses Vulkan to render OpenGL and that should fix it.

thanks alot