So, does it run on the Steam Deck?

[TinHammer]

Currently Steam lists this title as Unknown so has anybody tried it on their Deck yet?

[Marshtomp259]

Probably no. Proton experimental and stable both boot into a black screen.

Given that 1 is still in a pretty bad shape (FMVs won't render the last time I checked) I would assume that it won't get good support soon.

Edit: Turns out that's because I had the Flatpak Proton enabled. Switching to Proton stable and the game now boots. The FMVs still look pretty bad though...

Edit 2: Proton Experimental renders them perfectly. So I guess Yes?

[ejh1990]

One possible issue I have run into:- (very minor spoiler for a game mechanic in the first 5-10 minutes of the game)

when activating x-ray vision, the surrounding area and target of interest is all
a bright white; this means that it is impossible to see the target of interest unless you move the cursor all over the place

I am currently installing the game on my Windows computer just to make sure it isn't meant to look like that (though I highly doubt that it is meant to look like that).

I've also not tried anything too fancy (like trying with Glorious Eggroll), and I just went with Proton Experimental initially.

edit 1: having installed the game on Windows, I can confirm the behaviour I mentioned in the spoiler tag is definitely not normal.

edit 2: My bad. The issue I ran into was related to half rate shading (which I tend to have on to maximise battery life). That option needs to be disabled otherwise you get definite weirdness. So if there are any Deck users out there who experienced the same thing then that's why.

Since that seems to be resolved, initial experiences on Deck are pretty good. Haven't gotten far enough yet to definitively say one way or the other though. (But it certainly looks promising).

[C-Dub]

No problems running the game so far, except for the launcher options being a little unintuitive to close. But other than that, perfectly playable.

Playing at 40fps, but otherwise using default settings in the Quick Access Menu.

[packy17]

Originally posted by C-Dub:

No problems running the game so far, except for the launcher options being a little unintuitive to close. But other than that, perfectly playable.

Playing at 40fps, but otherwise using default settings in the Quick Access Menu.

40FPS? I increased the resolution to 1440p and it runs at 60 just fine. No reason to lock this one to 40hz, especially if playing at standard resolution/settings.

[DoctorComrade]

Everything works except the videos, but it is probably fixable. Latest proton and proton experimental get the same results for me.

[DoctorComrade]

yeah, I can't get the videos to play properly. Title screen just shows the video unavailable bars. Which is weird because I found an entire pre-release article where someone had it running on their deck fine. Tried multiple Proton and Proton GE versions (and tried it on my linux Desktop), no dice. Still playable so far, but it's super annoying. Also, OG AI does this too on my Deck. Haven't messed around with it much, though.

[packy17]

Originally posted by DoctorComrade:

yeah, I can't get the videos to play properly. Title screen just shows the video unavailable bars. Which is weird because I found an entire pre-release article where someone had it running on their deck fine. Tried multiple Proton and Proton GE versions (and tried it on my linux Desktop), no dice. Still playable so far, but it's super annoying. Also, OG AI does this too on my Deck. Haven't messed around with it much, though.

Not sure what to say. I haven’t had any issues so far. The only thing I changed was forcing the internal/external resolution to 1440p.

[DoctorComrade]

Originally posted by packy17:

Originally posted by DoctorComrade:

yeah, I can't get the videos to play properly. Title screen just shows the video unavailable bars. Which is weird because I found an entire pre-release article where someone had it running on their deck fine. Tried multiple Proton and Proton GE versions (and tried it on my linux Desktop), no dice. Still playable so far, but it's super annoying. Also, OG AI does this too on my Deck. Haven't messed around with it much, though.

Not sure what to say. I haven’t had any issues so far. The only thing I changed was forcing the internal/external resolution to 1440p.

Yeah, a lot of people haven't. Some people have been unfortunate (like me) and have. Thanks for letting me know it works fine for you, though, because I at least know it's *probably* something dumb with my Deck (or my steam profile) so I'm gonna wipe it and see if I can figure it out on a second profile (there are a few other ppl tweeting about it so I know it isn't just me)

edit: it was not something dumb with my steam deck and I have confirmed that it happens even in a completely sterile environment (wiped deck, no tweaking, new user). bizarre. opened an issue on Github for it so maybe we'll get it fixed soon.

[DenTheOtt]

I have the same issue on Proton, Proton experimental and Proton GE 7.20. The GE partially renders the video partially, but generally none of the videos play

[packy17]

Originally posted by DoctorComrade:

edit: it was not something dumb with my steam deck and I have confirmed that it happens even in a completely sterile environment (wiped deck, no tweaking, new user). bizarre. opened an issue on Github for it so maybe we'll get it fixed soon.

very strange. installed on the internal SSD right? the only variable i can think of at this point is SSD vs microSD.

there were some people having issues with videos with vsync enabled, but i kinda doubt it's that in this case.

[TinHammer]

Interesting. Are those who have problems running the Beta or the Stable deck firmware?

[Rasp]

The videos not loading def seems to be a wider proton issue I'm running popos on my desktop and steamos on my entertainment center pc and its been great aside from videos only showing bars.

The problem is I've finally hit a video you really NEED to see for the plot and I don't know how to fix that. Maybe the videos are in some kind of format or have some kind of attached DRM attached proton just doesn't support?

[C-Dub]

Does someone know if game settings are synced between computers through Steam Cloud?

If so, why would the devs do something so dumb? As I switch between Deck and PC I keep having to change the graphics settings.

[Der-Kleine]

Originally posted by C-Dub:

Does someone know if game settings are synced between computers through Steam Cloud?

If so, why would the devs do something so dumb? As I switch between Deck and PC I keep having to change the graphics settings.

I have played on both my windows laptop and steam deck, and both have always been configured exactly how I wanted them to be. It's not like the game really has graphics options, but both devices ran the game at their native resolution as intended.

Originally posted by Rasp:

The videos not loading def seems to be a wider proton issue I'm running popos on my desktop and steamos on my entertainment center pc and its been great aside from videos only showing bars.

The problem is I've finally hit a video you really NEED to see for the plot and I don't know how to fix that. Maybe the videos are in some kind of format or have some kind of attached DRM attached proton just doesn't support?

Download ProtonUp-QT from Discover, Install GE-Proton7-21 (released today) for steam and switch to that version of proton in the steam compatibility settings, Videos work with that.

The older Proton 7.1-GE-2 works as well, but you might as well use the newer version.

[C-Dub]

Originally posted by Der-Kleine:

Originally posted by C-Dub:

Does someone know if game settings are synced between computers through Steam Cloud?

If so, why would the devs do something so dumb? As I switch between Deck and PC I keep having to change the graphics settings.

I have played on both my windows laptop and steam deck, and both have always been configured exactly how I wanted them to be. It's not like the game really has graphics options, but both devices ran the game at their native resolution as intended.

I just checked what files are being uploaded to Steam Cloud.

launcher.ini is definitely being synced with Steam Cloud on my account (you can check your Steam Cloud files in a browser), and the graphics settings are stored in there.

I found this info here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

So it’s definitely syncing graphic settings.