Unverified

[GrundleGrump]

Is this the only game to have ever been verified and then stripped of that and made unverified?

I've tried this on Deck and it's a broken, unplayable mess. You can set compatibility to Proton 7-* and it'll certainly work better, but it's the only game I've ever seen all but crash, going down to 1fps and all but freezing the deck if you don't.

To everyone getting this for deck due to Humble Bundle, it performs terribly no matter what.

I got this for my fiancee as I played through it to the end but never noticed this verification being taken away. If that can happen, how many other games in your library that you bought for deck will suddenly be unplayable, or is this a lazy developer issue?

[Hopsenburg]

It probably was delisted because the performance is so bad. It may have been Verified to run at some point but there's too many complaints about the performance as time went on and it got into more people's hands.

I'm going to take a guess and say this is probably very CPU bound since no matter how much you dial down the settings, it's still sub-30FPS. The Steam Deck only has 4 cores and this is probably a core and thread hungry game. There's not much you can do about it besides considering an ROG Ally X instead of a Steam Deck since you're going from 4 to 8 cores with higher frequency in CPU limited scenarios.

I tried to make it work better on the Deck, but it's just not possible. The first thing I wanted to do was add FSR 2 or FSR 3 to fix the blurry look and try to see if I could lower the resolution down to maybe 576P but the game's graphical settings file is a binary file linked to the Windows registry and you need to place the FSR files in the registry too. I have no idea how to adjust that on the Steam Deck or drop the updated FSR files into Steam Deck to make that work.

If anyone has ideas, that's the only solution I can think of to squeak out maybe 2-3 more FPS and fix the image quality a bit.