Game crashes

[roche718]

It says that it's steam deck verified but Everytime I try to start it it crashes

[LolDa]

I'm on a desktop pc and it's the same.

[TheAlmightySunBro, Silkaire]

It crashed for me until I put on Proton Experimental, then it worked fine.

[roche718]

I don't know what else to do I did it on proton experimental so many times and it's still crashing I tried to start on desktop mode still crashing I uninstalled it and reinstalled it still crashing

[TheAlmightySunBro, Silkaire]

I recently made a discussion here to see how well Battlefront 2 worked on Steam Deck. This is the reply I got (NOT MADE BY ME). I played quit a bit and, to be honest, I'm surprised at how well the game runs. I've played offline instant action, online co-op missions, online supremacy games. The game is georgeous on Deck to the point it's hard to believe, and runs at a solid 60 FPS most of the time in high settings. I believe you could go easier on the battery, power consumption and ensure an even more stable and solid 60 FPS by switching the settings to medium or even lower without impacting much the visual beauty of the game, but I didn't bother. It's just great, performance-wise, as long as you don't intend to play long.

That said,

:csdsmile: Yes, you kinda need to "tweak" a bit to make it work well, mostly because of EA play and not the game itself. It's an EA game. Means Origins was a pain in the ass yesterday, and today EA play will be your new plague (EA plague is am ore fitting name), and who know what future holds for us gamers with this sh_tty company. If you don't have any other EA play game on Deck, the game will simply not work for the first time. You have to launch it from desktop mode, not from gaming mode, for the first time you launch it. Once the game is correctly launched for the first time, it should be ok. Despite having EA play already ready to go on my device, it was still not seamless to launch the game for the first time (I had to restart the Deck once, then I had to wait for a very long time for the game to launch despite the black screen). Once EA Play is set (from the desktop mode), and once the game is launched for good, it should be ok....BUT. At any moment, EA may update it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ DRM and makes it not compatible with the steam deck. They did it in the past. They sure will did it again.

:csdsmile: Still because of EA play, I can't guarantee you'll be able to enjoy your game on the go for a quick single player fix.

:csdsmile: near 90 GB is an ENORMOUS pain in the ass, even when you have a 1To sd card on your Deck. It's way too much for a Steam Deck game. It's a pain to make size for it's enormous volume, and it's a pain to download, even with a strong internet, for a device that is basically unusable while you download anything on it. As this is a multiplayer game, you will want to keep it installed for long if not for ever, but its size prevents you to do so. Frustrating.

:csdsmile: the battery is emptied like crazy. It promised me 1h43 of play time, I did not even reach it. I guess a fully charged Deck won't last more than 1h10 - 1h20 while playing this one. It's almost as long to charge than empty, it's crazy. You must know that some games may be very, very long, and you might not even be able to enjoy two full games in one sitting (if one at all !), depending on the game mode you play and how the game goes (in supremacy, if the opposing teams are very even, some maps can go for loooong as there is a "rematch" system until one team is fully defeated...and there can be plenty of "rematches" if the teams are really, really even and good at defending their positions when their baseship is assaulted).

:csdsmile: Yes. The online works. Like a charm. But this is a competitive game and people play with mouses and keyboard out there. I myself play mostly with a gamepad on my laptop, so I say from experience than the game is noobs and gamepad friendly, despite being an online competitive FPS...for the most part. You likely won't be the star of your team, but you can really manage yourself in competitive modes by playing with joysticks and buttons, as long as you limit yourself to Assault and Heavy classes, which are the less precises. Don't count on playing sniper, obviously. In coop mode or even ewok hunt, there will be no problems with a "gamepad settings". Supremacy will be ok for the most part. Galactic Assault and other games modes will be a bit harder. The game is enjoyable and doable but still, you will be greatly at your disadvantage in most competitive modes.

:csdsmile: The disadvantage goes on, because of the Deck's screen size. The game was never intended for being played in 800p on such a small screen, the devs didn't even knew it could be a thing back then. It's hard to see enemies from afar ; and both the contrast and the definition are not enough to make the action lisible enough, mostly in long distances, even in some close combat situations : sometimes, if too many people is reunited on a same darker corner of the map, well good luck to understand why you just died and what the ♥♥♥♥ happened. Enemies will see you from afar. You will barely see them. Most of the UI is easy and pleasant to read, and your immediate surroundings are mostly very fine to understand. But your enemies will see you from afar. In a game in which the first one who sees the enemy is usually the one who kills him, you won't see your enemies coming long before they already shoot you. This is a problem. The worse is, as you lose yourself in the game, you will compensate by getting your face closer to the screen, which is insanely unhealthy. I died many times in sutation I would never have on my laptop ; and I was surprised how intensely I was fighting intern struggles to prevent myself to glue my eyes to the Deck's screen once again.

:csdsmile: while everything worked insanely fine, the game crashed a few times each time the Steam overlay was summoned. Somethimes I managed to summon the Steam overlay without any incident, and sometimes it killed the game instantly. I was not able to detect the precise element you should not summon, or the precise moment that causes it, yet it happens. Real crashes that forced me to restart not only the game, but the system itself. You have to desactivate the Steam overlay from the game's settings on your Deck before launching it, and don't forget you can't press the Steam button while playing it because it will instantly crash your Deck. Also, hide yourself from your friends, you don't want them to talk to you or call you while you play it, it might make the game crash for whatever reason....that's a lot, too much precautions to take if you ask me. You also are forbidden to open the browser, check the achievements or the guides while playing because of the fear it might just shut down the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ system. Maybe this will all work, but until you can identify where the problem cames from, you might not want to risk your system crashing while playing an intense online game haha so...I did not try with different Proton-GE and others to see if it fixes the problem.

:csdsmile: as expected, the vents go crazy and the device is hot. But I didn't try to tweak with the settings, which might improve all that.


It's hard to say if I would buy the game for playing it on Deck. I'm both very, very surprised by how fine it runs (and 6 dollars for such a great game is a steal, honestly), and I guess I will keep it installed a few days more to enjoy it a bit on Deck...but it won't be installed for long, because nearly 90 Go is CRAZY, and because the experience is overall much better on my laptop, for both the screen size, my eyes health, my comfort (my gamepad is better), the ability to go full mouse keyboard if I feel in a killers mood, and the battery problem (and also the steam overlay).

It's not a "no, don't buy it for your Deck", nor it's a "yes, go ahead son, what are you waiting for !". It's a meh. Fantastic game that works great on a fantastic device it was never thought for, therefore the form factor hurts the experience. Plus the game is less stable on Deck than it is on a normal Windows device. [/quote]
Props to EvathCebor for making this.

[TheAlmightySunBro, Silkaire]

Don’t know if this will help or not, but it’s the most I can do.