Steam Deck

[Nicolaz]

Anyone played the demo on the Steam Deck?

Will it be verified one day? Ill buy it and try it out tomorrow

[fastwings]

low fps i get from steam deck

[Nicolaz]

On which setting you played it?

[Haxflix]

Played it on the deck. Changed some controller settings and the graphic settings to a mix between medium for quality stuff and low for reflections and shadows. Still looks good for gaming on the go and fps were pretty stable at ~40fps. Sometimes it lags when loading in a lot of stuff

[ynnus1986]

Originally posted by Haxflix:

Played it on the deck. Changed some controller settings and the graphic settings to a mix between medium for quality stuff and low for reflections and shadows. Still looks good for gaming on the go and fps were pretty stable at ~40fps. Sometimes it lags when loading in a lot of stuff

How does it compare to the demo performance? Because I can not get more than 15 - 20 fps even on 30 % render resolution scale (which I tried only as a joke but did not improve performance that much) and low settings. Generally CPU usage is only 20 % and 17 watts total (other games use 22 - 23 watts) but only running at sub 20 fps. There is obviously something pretty wrong, it's not using the potential power and probably only runs on a single CPU core wtc. So that's non playable for me. Maybe the retail 1.0 is better optimized?

[Henry]

if I’m not mistaken, the game even struggles to gwt good performance of PS5. so I think I’m going to wait until this game (hopefully) optimized for the deck

[Amiculi]

Originally posted by Henry:

if I’m not mistaken, the game even struggles to gwt good performance of PS5. so I think I’m going to wait until this game (hopefully) optimized for the deck

yeah, rough 30fps on ps5, should've waited...

[Xeawn ~Rafa~]

Originally posted by Haxflix:

Played it on the deck. Changed some controller settings and the graphic settings to a mix between medium for quality stuff and low for reflections and shadows. Still looks good for gaming on the go and fps were pretty stable at ~40fps. Sometimes it lags when loading in a lot of stuff

Can you post your full configuration for your settings? I've got most everything tuned to medium and low and I can barely get more than 20 FPS even without TDP limiting. Also, are you using stock or cryoutilities? And, stable, beta, or preview for your OS build?

[ynnus1986]

Originally posted by Xeawn ~Rafa~:

Originally posted by Haxflix:

Played it on the deck. Changed some controller settings and the graphic settings to a mix between medium for quality stuff and low for reflections and shadows. Still looks good for gaming on the go and fps were pretty stable at ~40fps. Sometimes it lags when loading in a lot of stuff

Can you post your full configuration for your settings? I've got most everything tuned to medium and low and I can barely get more than 20 FPS even without TDP limiting. Also, are you using stock or cryoutilities? And, stable, beta, or preview for your OS build?

There are always people telling you game X runs fine, locked 40 on the Steam Deck. Reality is, Pacific Drive is poorly or not optimized at all and you can lower all settings to the minimum and even rendering resolution to 50 % (so it's a blurry 400p resolution) and you won't get 40 fps out on the Deck. Not on average and not locked obviously.

[Juicer Mcgavin]

are you a big fan of slideshows by chance?

[Nicolaz]

It works on my Steam Deck. Medium settings with 30fps. Gonna test more later on.

[DankWestern]

My experience with this game on the Deck has been less than ideal, which is to be expected since the status is unsupported, but if you turn everything down to potato settings, you can stay around 15FPS

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by DankWestern:

My experience with this game on the Deck has been less than ideal, which is to be expected since the status is unsupported, but if you turn everything down to potato settings, you can stay around 15FPS

just fyi, unsupported doesn't mean "doesn't work" unsupported just means they haven't reviewed it yet, the review process is manual so not surprising it's not reviewed after only a few days.

From my testing, game works great on all ultra for desktop linux, on deck if you lower the res, use FSR and lower the graphics to medium/low it works fine, controls are nowhere near as fluid as on desktop though.

[Sabre3999]

I put in about an hour last night (first session) on my deck. I set all visuals to low after looking at the demo comments on ProtonDB. I did not attempt any power optimization.

Performance was more than acceptable IMO for the slice of gameplay I got through - basically new game start through most of the garage tutorial. I don't know the exact number, but it was above 30 for sure. Will bet late game might have some issues (assuming more effects then)... but this is Release day + 1 and I'm sure there's more room for optimization that the devs will get to - maybe they add FSR for example.

I do know that my admittedly short experience would not have prompted me to return it, even if my deck were the only machine to play on. YMMV but I'm pleasantly surprised.

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by Sabre3999:

I put in about an hour last night (first session) on my deck. I set all visuals to low after looking at the demo comments on ProtonDB. I did not attempt any power optimization.

Performance was more than acceptable IMO for the slice of gameplay I got through - basically new game start through most of the garage tutorial. I don't know the exact number, but it was above 30 for sure. Will bet late game might have some issues (assuming more effects then)... but this is Release day + 1 and I'm sure there's more room for optimization that the devs will get to - maybe they add FSR for example.

I do know that my admittedly short experience would not have prompted me to return it, even if my deck were the only machine to play on. YMMV but I'm pleasantly surprised.

On the deck if you run at a resolution below native you can force FSR in power options on any game, it's a feature of gamescope (no need for the game itself to support it). I generally recommend for best battery/framerate to run at 540p w/ fsr, with the upscale it'll be practically indistinguishable from 800p at that screen size but run twice as fast with much better battery life.

[Knights]

This game was looking very promising on the SteamDeck at the beginning of the game, once you complete the first section in the garage it all goes down hill from there. I hope you guys can work on some performance patches later on. I honestly am really enjoying the game and will play it on the pc if I have to... I'll try some of the above suggestions but so far I have to bump everything to low and it looks pretty bad....