Steam deck

[Sakura-Sou]

Who else will be playing this on steam deck?

[Illuminum]

I did some testing yesterday and sadly I get random crashes too, med to low and very low graphics settings, one thing I've noticed is that my netbook runs the game better with no crashes on med settings and I was thinking is the problem with proton maybe?

[Sakura-Sou]

Publicado originalmente por Suzy~💗:

Publicado originalmente por Sakura-Sou:

Started with proton experimental then switched to GE-proton 9-26 after watching a video on YouTube but I haven’t really seen a difference between them, it crashes just randomly usually after an hour of play my ram/cpu/gpu all shoot up then it freezes and black screens, I’m on very low settings, at least with the devs also being disappointed in the performance on steam deck we might get stability updates on the future:)
Edit: after turning down the resolution scale my ram went down to between 11.6-13.7% it makes the game look blurry but idc am stubborn

Morning!!
Yeah, the game crashed twice on me too yesterday.
First time, I tried creating a new family to add them in the neighbourhood, reopened the game did the same thing and it worked this time. Second time, I had the graphic settings on mid and I tried to look around in the neighbourhood.
Then crashed randomly while my Zois were talking a lot.
Such a pity, where did you read the developers stated it’s not working well?
Thank you for sharing your experienced as well :)

I seen an article on Reddit, something about the devs went back on their statement that it’s “playable” on steam deck and that their disappointed in the performance on it, I recommend lowering the resolution scale and play on low settings until stability fixes come, ive had 2 long solid sessions now setting it between 30-40%, downside is yeah it will be blurry but it definitely frees up the cpu/gpu and most definitely the ram (until it saves then it shoot the ram but it usually stays between 13.3-13.7 when it saves then drops)
Edit: ram shot up to 14.1 froze up but it unfroze and continued playing and lowered back to 12.5-12.7

[The92Ghost]

Uhm, the game is still in Early Access and it does take quite the hefty amount of resources on moderm gaming laptop or PC, what makes you think that the game will be running smoothly on Steam Deck? I don't think it will.

[Sakura-Sou]

Publicado originalmente por The92Ghost:

Uhm, the game is still in Early Access and it does take quite the hefty amount of resources on moderm gaming laptop or PC, what makes you think that the game will be running smoothly on Steam Deck? I don't think it will.

Uhm, we know the game is still in Early Access are you aware that before release the devs said it would run fine on steam deck? This is more like a thread to share your experiences and to help other steam deck players, don’t be a ♥♥♥♥ :)

[Suzy~💗]

Publicado originalmente por Illuminum:

I did some testing yesterday and sadly I get random crashes too, med to low and very low graphics settings, one thing I've noticed is that my netbook runs the game better with no crashes on med settings and I was thinking is the problem with proton maybe?

The problem is probably you got better requirements on your computer rather than Steamdeck I think! That’s a good thing it’s not really crashing on pc ☺️
It’s annoying to be playing sim games on such a “small” screen, thinking of buying an external monitor.
I’d be satisfied to play it on a bigger screen even if sometimes crashes, I mean if i don’t want it to crash I should get a gaming pc.
So as a first version I’m not that shocked it’s crushing on a portable console

[Yoshi321]

My game crashes every time i wanna change my outfit lol oh man and steam won’t refund me lol so I’m stuck with this game

[Suzy~💗]

Publicado originalmente por Sakura-Sou:

I seen an article on Reddit, something about the devs went back on their statement that it’s “playable” on steam deck and that their disappointed in the performance on it, I recommend lowering the resolution scale and play on low settings until stability fixes come, ive had 2 long solid sessions now setting it between 30-40%, downside is yeah it will be blurry but it definitely frees up the cpu/gpu and most definitely the ram (until it saves then it shoot the ram but it usually stays between 13.3-13.7 when it saves then drops)
Edit: ram shot up to 14.1 froze up but it unfroze and continued playing and lowered back to 12.5-12.7

I see!! Thank you!
Lol I put the resolution scale on like 70% 🤣😅 Keeping the graphic settings on the lowest … that’s a nice suggestion for sure

Publicado originalmente por Sakura-Sou:

Publicado originalmente por The92Ghost:

Uhm, the game is still in Early Access and it does take quite the hefty amount of resources on moderm gaming laptop or PC, what makes you think that the game will be running smoothly on Steam Deck? I don't think it will.

Uhm, we know the game is still in Early Access are you aware that before release the devs said it would run fine on steam deck? This is more like a thread to share your experiences and to help other steam deck players, don’t be a ♥♥♥♥ :)

Really Agree!

[Suzy~💗]

Publicado originalmente por Yoshi321:

My game crashes every time i wanna change my outfit lol oh man and steam won’t refund me lol so I’m stuck with this game

This happened to me at the beginning but only once! I don’t find any problem now changing the outfits.
Don’t worry as developers will adjust & improve the stability thru time.
Are you playing on the lowest graphics? Playing like that my game tend to work for awhile with no lagging and runs fine

[Illuminum]

I've just followed this video game settings and it was running way better than before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at5C_AH0EyU

[Sakura-Sou]

Publicado originalmente por Suzy~💗:

Publicado originalmente por Sakura-Sou:

I seen an article on Reddit, something about the devs went back on their statement that it’s “playable” on steam deck and that their disappointed in the performance on it, I recommend lowering the resolution scale and play on low settings until stability fixes come, ive had 2 long solid sessions now setting it between 30-40%, downside is yeah it will be blurry but it definitely frees up the cpu/gpu and most definitely the ram (until it saves then it shoot the ram but it usually stays between 13.3-13.7 when it saves then drops)
Edit: ram shot up to 14.1 froze up but it unfroze and continued playing and lowered back to 12.5-12.7

I see!! Thank you!
Lol I put the resolution scale on like 70% 🤣😅 Keeping the graphic settings on the lowest … that’s a nice suggestion for sure

In my tests I’ve noticed once the decks ram hits 14gigs+ used it will more likely than not, crash, decreasing the res. Scale till a fix comes helps reduce the use of ram a little sometimes it will shoot up to 13+ but ive finished a 3 hour sesh before work and didnt crash after lowering the scale praying this solution helps other players hoping to get this on steam deck

[catherine.la.frog]

i play it on steam deck. you have to run it with "Proton GE". You can find on youtube how to get Proton GE. and with that it runs great

[Suzy~💗]

Publicado originalmente por Illuminum:

I've just followed this video game settings and it was running way better than before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at5C_AH0EyU

Thank you so much dear!! 🥰
That’s so interesting to try!!!

Publicado originalmente por catherine.la.frog:

i play it on steam deck. you have to run it with "Proton GE". You can find on youtube how to get Proton GE. and with that it runs great

Thank you so much ❤️ for helping!
Thank you didn’t know that!!! :)
Gonna try as well

[Devil Ray]

i got it to rum with photon experimental but could not change my monitor from Steamdeck to my external monitor

[orb]

I'm playing it docked in desktop mode with GE-Proton 9.26 really fine. Without using GE-Proton the intro and menu videos don't play making the screen black.

Unlike some suggestions I've read somewhere, it plays better without enabling dynamic resolution. On the lowest settings at the moment and disabled raytracing, I play it on the Deck with connected monitor, keyboard and mouse using 1600x900 resolution.

From additional personal tweaks I enabled screen sharpening (r.Tonemapper.Sharpen) and tweaked a little TemporalAA to reduce the ghosting effect in SystemSettings of write protected Engine.ini that I put in the AppData/Local/BlueClient settings directory of the compatdata prefix. Note that Engine.ini file gets deleted from there after launching the game if it isn't write protected. Tonemapper's sharpening improves the image quality for me a lot, from what I had by default. I haven't seen much drop in performance between 1280x720 and 1600x900 when using the lowest settings.

The raytracing which is enabled by default even with the lowest quality and low screen resolution gives a big performance hit, so it's better to disable it, but instead you can probably change some other settings to make the game look better (I only played for a little over 3 hours so far, half of that with default lowest quality without any tweaks, so I'll still be checking with enabling some of quality settings one by one, like for example shadows). Some settings may probably require decreasing the resolution back down to 1280x720 to keep the game still performing reasonably (i.e. to have over 25fps). With the Deck's built-in 1280x800 this means some of the quality settings can also be increased a little from the lowest and have the game still playable, but raytracing definitely needs to stay turned off.

[Suzy~💗]

Publicado originalmente por orb:

I'm playing it docked in desktop mode with GE-Proton 9.26 really fine. Without using GE-Proton the intro and menu videos don't play making the screen black.

Unlike some suggestions I've read somewhere, it plays better without enabling dynamic resolution. On the lowest settings at the moment and disabled raytracing, I play it on the Deck with connected monitor, keyboard and mouse using 1600x900 resolution.

From additional personal tweaks I enabled screen sharpening (r.Tonemapper.Sharpen) and tweaked a little TemporalAA to reduce the ghosting effect in SystemSettings of write protected Engine.ini that I put in the AppData/Local/BlueClient settings directory of the compatdata prefix. Note that Engine.ini file gets deleted from there after launching the game if it isn't write protected. Tonemapper's sharpening improves the image quality for me a lot, from what I had by default. I haven't seen much drop in performance between 1280x720 and 1600x900 when using the lowest settings.

The raytracing which is enabled by default even with the lowest quality and low screen resolution gives a big performance hit, so it's better to disable it, but instead you can probably change some other settings to make the game look better (I only played for a little over 3 hours so far, half of that with default lowest quality without any tweaks, so I'll still be checking with enabling some of quality settings one by one, like for example shadows). Some settings may probably require decreasing the resolution back down to 1280x720 to keep the game still performing reasonably (i.e. to have over 25fps). With the Deck's built-in 1280x800 this means some of the quality settings can also be increased a little from the lowest and have the game still playable, but raytracing definitely needs to stay turned off.

Thank you for sharing your experience and suggestions 🥰
It’s nice cause I am (used to be, playing only on Steam from a year lol) a console gamer and not really keen on games settings.
I’m learning with time and experiences.
Have to check for proton ge, Did you experience some crashes during your gameplay?
And what’s that tone mapper sharpening you’re talking about?
I got used playing on the lowest graphics, keeping the resolution around 60/70% smooth things.
I just played for 2 hours with no problems, now it was auto-saving and I told my Zoi to do an action and it crashed 🙈 but it’s okay.
Gotta be gentle with the game lol