Steam Deck Crashing

[[MD] Take]

I've been crashing on many games after 10mins of gameplay. To name a few alot of UBI soft games and Forza horizon 5. Is this my Steam Deck or is anyone else experiencing this.

[Jâbbérwôkkï]

People will need a little more information on the crashes, settings your using, etc. Are the games steam deck verified for example. Are you running them on max settings? Have you done a system update recently?

[Mahjik]

For Ubisoft title, they recently updated their launcher to auto enable their overlay. This is causing crashes on the Deck. Go into Desktop Mode, start the Ubisoft launcher and disable the overlay. Close the launcher, go back into Game Mode and your Ubisoft title should run as they did before.

[Mahjik]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3823032780416553320/#c3823032780422789265

[Punkovich]

Well in my experience Ubisoft games are crashy in general and on deck. ACVallhalla and Division 2 both have issues but its usually several hours into a session if it happens...

[[MD] Take]

Originally posted by Punkovich:

Well in my experience Ubisoft games are crashy in general and on deck. ACVallhalla and Division 2 both have issues but its usually several hours into a session if it happens...

My SteamDeck crashes like 10mins into the game consistently. But alot of people having the same problem. I just hope my Deck isn't broken XD.

[Modern Retro Gamer (UK)]

Check reports for the games on ProtonDB.

Don't know about Horizon 5, but 4 is a major crash fest, even on Windows. (Playable - I've been playing it).

Likewise I've had crashes from Hogwarts. Similarly known problems even on Windows.

I'm beginning to feel this is 'PC Gaming'.

[[MD] Take]

I really hope it isnt a problem with my steam deck. I hear people are able to play FH5 without problems...

[Bigboss PC Faster]

Still crashes

[nksi]

Crashes all the time when changing controller configuration while playing FFXIV, os 3.4.6, build 20230313.1 (also crashed on non Beta)

[MJ711]

General rules that I follow for 95% of my games on Steam Deck are:

• 40Hz/40FPS limit (no exceptions)
  
• Low or Mid in-game setting or manual config for some games (never Higher unless it is a very old game like Half-Life 1 and similar)
  
• Allow Tearing ON (no exceptions)
  
• Half Rate Shading ON (almost no exception, only couple of game were not compatible with this)
  
• Thermal Power (TDP) Limit to 7W (almost no exception, but some games require more and some are fine with 4W)
  
• Scaling Filter FSR (no exceptions)
  
• FSP Sharpness 3-5 (highly depends on the game)

Just by following those rules I would get a crash maybe 3 times per month.
Currently I am finishing Halo Master Chief Collection with remastered textures. Not a single crash.

FarCry 3,4 and 5 each crashed like maybe 3 time per whole main story.
Splinter Cell Blacklist crashed 2 times in total.

The main problem is that people heavily overestimate the performance of Steam Deck and try to play all games on High or even higher settings without limiting anything, pushing the Steam Deck to the power and thermal limits.
That is just wrong a usage of the device.

[[MD] Take]

Originally posted by MJ711:

General rules that I follow for 95% of my games on Steam Deck are:

• 40Hz/40FPS limit (no exceptions)
  
• Low or Mid in-game setting or manual config for some games (never Higher unless it is a very old game like Half-Life 1 and similar)
  
• Allow Tearing ON (no exceptions)
  
• Half Rate Shading ON (almost no exception, only couple of game were not compatible with this)
  
• Thermal Power (TDP) Limit to 7W (almost no exception, but some games require more and some are fine with 4W)
  
• Scaling Filter FSR (no exceptions)
  
• FSP Sharpness 3-5 (highly depends on the game)

Just by following those rules I would get a crash maybe 3 times per month.
Currently I am finishing Halo Master Chief Collection with remastered textures. Not a single crash.

FarCry 3,4 and 5 each crashed like maybe 3 time per whole main story.
Splinter Cell Blacklist crashed 2 times in total.

The main problem is that people heavily overestimate the performance of Steam Deck and try to play all games on High or even higher settings without limiting anything, pushing the Steam Deck to the power and thermal limits.
That is just wrong a usage of the device.

The ones that are fully supported need this? Because what is the sense of Valve saying to play these games at the recommended settings... . .

[MJ711]

Originally posted by MD Take:

Originally posted by MJ711:

General rules that I follow for 95% of my games on Steam Deck are:

• 40Hz/40FPS limit (no exceptions)
  
• Low or Mid in-game setting or manual config for some games (never Higher unless it is a very old game like Half-Life 1 and similar)
  
• Allow Tearing ON (no exceptions)
  
• Half Rate Shading ON (almost no exception, only couple of game were not compatible with this)
  
• Thermal Power (TDP) Limit to 7W (almost no exception, but some games require more and some are fine with 4W)
  
• Scaling Filter FSR (no exceptions)
  
• FSP Sharpness 3-5 (highly depends on the game)

Just by following those rules I would get a crash maybe 3 times per month.
Currently I am finishing Halo Master Chief Collection with remastered textures. Not a single crash.

FarCry 3,4 and 5 each crashed like maybe 3 time per whole main story.
Splinter Cell Blacklist crashed 2 times in total.

The main problem is that people heavily overestimate the performance of Steam Deck and try to play all games on High or even higher settings without limiting anything, pushing the Steam Deck to the power and thermal limits.
That is just wrong a usage of the device.

The ones that are fully supported need this? Because what is the sense of Valve saying to play these games at the recommended settings... . .

No exceptions, if you ask me.
Companies, Valve included, do tell what a customer wants to hear.

But please remind me, where did Valve say to play supported games at recommended settings on Steam Deck?

The recommended settings on games Steam page are for Desktops which usually have much better cooling, better power supply and a dedicated GPU. Sure it is still a PC but it is a very different one.

Imagine this, you have a Desktop and a Laptop.
On your Desktop you can play a game on ultra high with no issues.
On your Laptop, chances are slim to have the same performance like your Desktop. Unless your Desktop is very old or something.

Every player should adapt the game settings to the PC the game is played on !!!
And sometimes adapt the PC (OS settings, BIOS settings, some other Software) for the game.

[impishdomovoy]

I'm also getting this bug veeeeerry reliabley

[nksi]

Originally posted by MJ711:

General rules that I follow for 95% of my games on Steam Deck are:

• 40Hz/40FPS limit (no exceptions)
  
• Low or Mid in-game setting or manual config for some games (never Higher unless it is a very old game like Half-Life 1 and similar)
  
• Allow Tearing ON (no exceptions)
  
• Half Rate Shading ON (almost no exception, only couple of game were not compatible with this)
  
• Thermal Power (TDP) Limit to 7W (almost no exception, but some games require more and some are fine with 4W)
  
• Scaling Filter FSR (no exceptions)
  
• FSP Sharpness 3-5 (highly depends on the game)

Just by following those rules I would get a crash maybe 3 times per month.
Currently I am finishing Halo Master Chief Collection with remastered textures. Not a single crash.

FarCry 3,4 and 5 each crashed like maybe 3 time per whole main story.
Splinter Cell Blacklist crashed 2 times in total.

The main problem is that people heavily overestimate the performance of Steam Deck and try to play all games on High or even higher settings without limiting anything, pushing the Steam Deck to the power and thermal limits.
That is just wrong a usage of the device.

No difference, it's a deck bug which feels like it's not freeing up resources and getting slower over time spent in the controller configuration page.

[MJ711]

Originally posted by nksi:

Originally posted by MJ711:

General rules that I follow for 95% of my games on Steam Deck are:

• 40Hz/40FPS limit (no exceptions)
  
• Low or Mid in-game setting or manual config for some games (never Higher unless it is a very old game like Half-Life 1 and similar)
  
• Allow Tearing ON (no exceptions)
  
• Half Rate Shading ON (almost no exception, only couple of game were not compatible with this)
  
• Thermal Power (TDP) Limit to 7W (almost no exception, but some games require more and some are fine with 4W)
  
• Scaling Filter FSR (no exceptions)
  
• FSP Sharpness 3-5 (highly depends on the game)

Just by following those rules I would get a crash maybe 3 times per month.
Currently I am finishing Halo Master Chief Collection with remastered textures. Not a single crash.

FarCry 3,4 and 5 each crashed like maybe 3 time per whole main story.
Splinter Cell Blacklist crashed 2 times in total.

The main problem is that people heavily overestimate the performance of Steam Deck and try to play all games on High or even higher settings without limiting anything, pushing the Steam Deck to the power and thermal limits.
That is just wrong a usage of the device.

No difference, it's a deck bug which feels like it's not freeing up resources and getting slower over time spent in the controller configuration page.

That is a wrong assumption.