Steam Deck Support?

[TheMonstah]

Is there active work or updates around making XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within playable for the Steam Deck?

[Lord Rizzington of Mewingville]

I saw a video of it running at 40 fps avg. Seems a little low since I had a red HP with integrated that ran this maaaaaaaany years ago no issue; games runs on potatoes. Guessing this is SteamOS related?

[[Green]]

yanthrax eredeti hozzászólása:

I had issues launching this via Steam Linux Runtime. In one instance, only EW would work, and not the base EU game. Both deleting the .bmp splash screen, as well as a number of other fixes didn't address it for me, but I read that many people have reported it successfully working (often after reinstalling the game). I didn't want to reimage my Deck, so I did the following:

1) Uninstall game via Steam
2) Went to Desktop Mode, navigated to the steamapps location and deleted the Xcom Enemy Unknown folder, as well as making sure $HOME/.local/share/XCom
3) Reinstall and toggle compatibility mode to Steam Linux Runtime
4) Launch game (I did get the weird shopping cart logo on EW despite owning it as well, but after clicking the game, it triggered another download).

Hope this helps someone else who had the same issues I did!

I had installed the game using Proton because that's what it defaults to, got the same colorful visual artifacting that was previously mentioned, and decided to switch to the Linux Runtime.
This seems to brick the game, even uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't resolve it. It just crashes as soon as I tried launching.
This fixed it though, uninstalling and deleting any left behind game files, then installing again with the Linux Runtime selected first.
No more artifacting and it runs beautifully maxed out.
I'd apologize for the necro but I only recently got my Deck and XCom was on sale just last week.

[Orhp]

run it with proton 7.0.4. Once the controls are set, game runs great! Only issue is the controls dont work on main menu or soldier promotion screen

[Troc]

I have been playing EW using the Linux Runtime and it runs great. I lowered the refresh to 40 and capped the fps at 40 to get more battery life.

I originally was playing EU only with proton but didn't like the artifacts so I grabbed the dlc to be able to use the Linux Runtime.

[Dwang Zhongson]

Orhp eredeti hozzászólása:

run it with proton 7.0.4. Once the controls are set, game runs great! Only issue is the controls dont work on main menu or soldier promotion screen

Yes, after launching the game first time it's needed to remap a trackpad to mouse and set X360 controller in the game. It works flawless after.

[hibbidy_jibbidy]

came for this

[Woelkchen]

shadow82 eredeti hozzászólása:

Works fine via Steam Linux Runtime compatibility tool.

This forces the native Linux version of Xcom. For me it launched just fine without any glitches or input tweaks.
What I didnt check is save compatibility with Windows.

[Rings of powaaaaa sucks]

games works but how do you fix the raibow issues? tried all the proton yet still there..

[[ $R ]Nutmeg]

Yeah, I'm on the Steam Deck right now, and it runs great. Held down STEAM button and used the right trackpad to go to options and switch to "XBOX 360 Controller" et voila. Everything works great. Shouldn't be marked as Unsupported, imho.

Thankfully, I'm not experiencing any of the artifacts, rainbows, or crashing/freezing.

[Rings of powaaaaa sucks]

Swyxel eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah, I'm on the Steam Deck right now, and it runs great. Held down STEAM button and used the right trackpad to go to options and switch to "XBOX 360 Controller" et voila. Everything works great. Shouldn't be marked as Unsupported, imho.

Thankfully, I'm not experiencing any of the artifacts, rainbows, or crashing/freezing.

What proton are you using? And are you on stable or beta client?

[schwarzrotes]

did you try not using proton at all, as this game is nativ linux

[dampfgamer99]

yanthrax eredeti hozzászólása:

I had issues launching this via Steam Linux Runtime. In one instance, only EW would work, and not the base EU game.

This is similar to how it is on my System. For those who are interested, I play using the Steam Flatpak, so the base enviroment here is the Freedesktop Runtime.

When I tried to launch the native version, neither EU nor EW worked. I then tried the Windows version using Proton. Now I am at the point where EW works, but not EU, EU just doesn't launch.

Here's the funny thing though:
XCOM has two separate saves folders, one for EU and one for EW. Now, after I successfully started EW for the first time, it's folder contained a file called profile.bin. If I removed it, EW wouldn't start as well.
Haven't tested it enough to say that this is the reason, but I think XCOM fails (sometimes) on Linux to generate that profile file, then blocking the launch of the game. Come to think of it, I think that file was generated the first time I started XCOM in Proton, so it might have created an profile online and attempted and failed to load the profile.

[nintendude794]

I've been able to play the native Linux build of Enemy Unknown on Deck since August, I think. Achievements worked and everything!

[Heef]

No longer having artifacting, or any issues at all really on proton-ge 7.42

[Orhp]

Works great on deck. Just map the controls before entering the game