Steam deck performance

[Padgey]

How does the game work on steam deck, does it have good controller support and also does it run well? Like at least a locked 40fps even if I have to turn down the graphics a bit? Want to install it on my steam deck but don’t wanna waste my time if it performs poorly

[soundtoxin]

You could refund the game within the 2 hour window if it doesn't run well on Deck.

[redsidhe]

Ran it on Linux which is similar software wise to Steamdeck. The performance seems more sluggish than on Windows.

[bateluer]

No games run well on the Steam Deck, its definition of running games at the minimum viable quality level. Its a 2 gen old Ryzen APU, except hamstrung by aggressive clock throttling.

Not sure about controller support.

[soundtoxin]

Plenty of games run well on the Deck. Anything 2D or indie, most things you'd emulate. If you play only modern bloated AAA stuff I can understand why you might think you'd have to crank settings down, but I don't turn down any settings for most stuff I play. I even play on an external monitor at 1920x1200, higher res than the Deck's built-in panel. You don't need the very best or latest hardware to play games well. Consider that consoles have the same hardware for 5-10 years and they continue to release games on them in a playable state. Often stuff near the end of the gen is more polished than the stuff at the start despite the hardware not changing.

[Mancerous]

It runs fine, 60 FPS even on medium when I was playing it last night. 40 FPS'll probably squeeze out some extra battery, though.

Controller support is good, and 100% rebindable, which you'll need if you don't like the default settings. I did not.

[Thiesen]

My system... and I am a happy camper...

System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-28-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33
    wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF X470-PLUS GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5806 date: 11/23/2020
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen+ rev: 2 cache:
    L1: 768 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1708 high: 4092 min/max: 1550/3200 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1550 2: 1636
    3: 4092 4: 1550 5: 1550 6: 1550 7: 1375 8: 1550 9: 1635 10: 1550 11: 1550 12: 1550 13: 1550
    14: 1550 15: 1550 16: 1550 bogomips: 102201
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-2
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DVI-D-1, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-2 model: Asus VC279 serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
    dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (polaris10 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.54 6.5.0-28-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-28-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82574L Gigabit Network driver: e1000e v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: f000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:10d3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.3 TiB used: 371.96 GiB (8.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXE7 temp: 34.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD40EFAX-68JH4N0 size: 3.64 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0A82 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB model: iODD External HDD size: 447.13 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter>
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 227.23 GiB used: 41.54 GiB (18.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 974.1 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (0.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 3.58 TiB used: 302.22 GiB (8.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 25 GiB used: 1.38 GiB (5.5%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Cooler Master MC120 RGB Gaming Mouse type: Mouse,Keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 2516:005d
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-11:3 info: Cooler Master MC120 RGB Gaming KB type: Keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 490mA chip-ID: 2516:005b
    class-ID: 0301
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 4-2:3 info: Fujitsu iodd_ST300 type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1
    rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 8mA chip-ID: 04c5:2028 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1048
Repos:
  Packages: 2385 apt: 2372 flatpak: 13
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http:// /packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http:// /archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http:// /archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http:// /archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http:// /security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 403 Uptime: 2d 19h 15m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 3.72 GiB (24.0%)
  Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12
  Client: Unknown python3.10 client inxi: 3.3.13

[JLSalvador]

I'm playing this game in Steam Deck Oled. I'm in the Tree Plant phase. Good performance, around 50 fps. Good controller support.

[kevinhilliard85]

I literally run anything from rdr2 to Valheim iv ran ark on my deck and iv literally only had to change my launch options one time way of the hunter call of the wild all of em that iv tried anyone who says steam deck can’t run any games is a frame rate snob who can’t stand to see anything less then 120 fps I hit 40-60 fps very easily and I am fine with that me and my wife both play bauldersgate together and it’s been flawless that’s the only launch option I have changed I enjoy and adore my steam deck and my wife loves hers I hope they continue with the repair-ability and maybe even release an upgraded cpu and other parts I honestly think steam deck is a model that all systems should strive for.

[LizardOx]

I set my Steamdeck VRAM allotment from 1GB to 4GB awhile back to get one game to run smoothly. I haven't have a crash after the explosive patch, where they fixed the memory leak. I'm almost at the end of terraforming the planet. The game runs about 20-30 fps when I'm at the busy base. 60 fps(had it capped at 60) when not near the base. It runs pretty well. I'm fine with the framerate, as long as the game isn't crashing. There's a prologue of Planet Crafter if you want to see how it runs.

[chronobomb]

It runs great on steam deck. I host an MP game on my deck and never drop below 48 fps.

There are some occasional latency issues for the others, but we all are using the steam deck to play.

Oddly enough, it loads better on the older deck than my OLED deck. Maybe because I have it on my SD card.

I can definitely recommend it on the deck.

[piotrr]

Extremely well.

[jan_biv]

Does not run well for me.
Up until the insect stage the game ran great on the deck and this was easily one of my favorite games. Halfway through the trees stage fps started dropping. Lowered my graphics to medium, seemed to improve for a short time, but by the insect stage it was terrible then the game started crashing my deck, so I stopped playing.
I don’t have the OLED, would love to know what everyone’s settings are that the game runs so well for others since my experience is the complete opposite.