Steam Deck performance

[Keldohead]

Steam Deck performance is pretty bad, even on lowest settings. It seems anytime there is action the game just slows to a crawl. especially in the special campaigns. I know this game is all CPU bound but are there any tips or tricks to get this to run better?

[Tuxedo]

Have you checked out other sources already?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Selaco/comments/1dbqule/steamdeck_performance/

https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/selaco/

[Nexxtic]

The best tip is to run it natively. We have a lot of users who play it through Proton and that negatively impacts performance. And triple check to see if you're playing through Vulkan!

While we are mostly happy with how the Deck performs, it's still not at the point where we want it to be.

Two days ago we began working on a project that aims to improve performance significantly on all systems, but it'll be a few months until we get these changes implemented.

[Keldohead]

Originally posted by Nexxtic:

The best tip is to run it natively. We have a lot of users who play it through Proton and that negatively impacts performance. And triple check to see if you're playing through Vulkan!

While we are mostly happy with how the Deck performs, it's still not at the point where we want it to be.

Two days ago we began working on a project that aims to improve performance significantly on all systems, but it'll be a few months until we get these changes implemented.

How do I run it natively?

[Fix]

Originally posted by Keldohead:

Originally posted by Nexxtic:

The best tip is to run it natively. We have a lot of users who play it through Proton and that negatively impacts performance. And triple check to see if you're playing through Vulkan!

While we are mostly happy with how the Deck performs, it's still not at the point where we want it to be.

Two days ago we began working on a project that aims to improve performance significantly on all systems, but it'll be a few months until we get these changes implemented.

How do I run it natively?

Game page -> game settings -> properties -> compatibility. Make sure that "force the use of a specific compatibility" is not set to Proton.
Best case is to turn that setting off, but setting it to "Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout)" should be fine

[Keldohead]

Originally posted by Fix:

Originally posted by Keldohead:

How do I run it natively?

Game page -> game settings -> properties -> compatibility. Make sure that "force the use of a specific compatibility" is not set to Proton.
Best case is to turn that setting off, but setting it to "Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout)" should be fine

Oh, it was already set to that.

[Tuxedo]

Originally posted by Keldohead:

Oh, it was already set to that.

Please have a look at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwTqHj343d0

[radi]

it doesnt start on steam deck. proton experimental works but performance is bad then #. how to start without proton ?g

[Nexxtic]

Are you getting an error message? The game should work right out of the box.

[radi]

it doesnt start at all going back to steam deck screen after 3 sec

[radi]

dosent start without proton

[Nexxtic]

Originally posted by radi:

it doesnt start at all going back to steam deck screen after 3 sec

Any beta branch you're using? What if you verify integrity? We haven't heard of this report before so any info you can give would be fantastic!

[radi]

Hi, Im not on a bata.. just regular. Ill checked integrity... was ok.. reinstalled 3 times .. doesn´t help..

[radi]

Ill try desktop mode now. I will report

[radi]

same problem in desktop mode .. doesn´t start at all. in desktop mode I can choose Legacy runtime 1.0 . this works .but with bad frame rates as well.... proton is ok as long there ar no shootouts... goes down to 20 FPS what makes it unplayable on steam deck... On myPC its awesome ... love this game

[Nexxtic]

Even in Desktop Mode there is no error? You hit Play, and nothing happens with the screen? No start up screen, no errors, nothing?

Do you not even get the "SELACO" loading screen?

It's a very hard problem to fix because we've never had this issue before, and without an error to work with I'm afraid there's not much we can do :(