Steam deck

[The Walking JEDD]

Anyone playing on steam Deck? How's it going is it enjoyable? I'm bored of the Nintendo switch version as its lacking, and will be hoping to get it working on the Deck.

[maciek.slon]

I think CityPlannerPlays had a video on this topic not so long ago on youtube.

[The Walking JEDD]

ok cheers i'll give it a look

[Victorianous]

Hi I hope you've had some good luck because I'm trying to figure out how well it runs before buying the dlc. It did not seem like CityPlannerPlays took the steam decks somewhat limited ability compared to his daily driver gaming PC.
I'm a n00b PC gamer but vanilla Cities skylines with high graphics steering seems to run ok as far I can tell. It doesn't crash for me as it did for a lot of other people it seems but they might have mod issues too.

[The Walking JEDD]

Hi i think it will be ok ill have a play around. I haven't had chance yet because my delivery for the steam deck was stolen, so im waiting for the second delivery. i'll try and let you know.

i play it on switch but it has become boring as its so limited to what you can do.

[The Walking JEDD]

Hi I've finally been able to try it, after a rocky start. the game wont work with the pre set controls, so thats one thing that needs changing straight away, luckily you can change those easily by selecting community layout. once i had done that they where defo usable.
then i tried loading a new map it would get to the end of the loading bar then crash.
i then tried lowering the graphics to medium, it still happened.
i disabled all my mods and made sure auto save was switched on.
finally the game fully loaded and actually looked quite good and played well . i could really get in to it, but about 20 mins in the game crashed for no reason. it had only auto saved part of it. i tried again then manually saved but it crashed while saving. long story short the game has a lot of potential to be great on the deck, problem is the game has always been unstable, even crashing on my PC when it doesn't like something. i really hope some good moder can find away of making the game stable if the devs cant be bothered.

hope this helps. im not giving up yet lol

[nixdox]

Is this still an issue? I tried to run the game on deck but when starting a city it just freezes the console and had to force shut down it.

I have done some research and seems like the game fills the entire ram and then crashes. Some work arounds say you can try to disable mods and dlc, haven’t tried that yet.

Vanilla and no dlcs should work but the reality seems different, I have read some people got no luck trying to run in on deck that way.

I really wish this could get fixed as it is one great game, even the switch version is kinda enjoyable, deck should have enough power to run it decently, right? Specially as it is a game released so long ago.

[MarkJohnson]

In the reviews I've seen, it is recommended that you purchase a subscription to geforce now and stream the game to the steam deck.

This game just uses a lot of resources and crashes the underpowered steam deck.

Check steam deck forums for some possible tricks to make it work better.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Steam Deck only has 16 GB so yes, and CS is very memory hungry, so no big surprise if it ends up using all of it and then some more.

Remember DLCs and mods/assets will add to that.

If you want to play in the Steam Deck, best to do that in vanilla - with no modded assets whatsoever.

Besides, this game will be very power hungry too, so you may get one hour of playing time before having to recharge the console.

GeForce is a decent workaround provided you have access to a good WiFi spot, and of course, willing to fork over the cash for that.

[nixdox]

A real bummer because even the Switch version works (yes, we all know, barely and so bad but at the end works) running on an even more limited system, but also has been recoded to run there. Well, guess in the case of CS on Steam being a pc version of the game will need more power. Unless Valve or the developer itself make the needed changes to make it work on the system we would not be able to play it decently on Deck.

[Tsubame ⭐]

The game should be playable on the Deck as the Switch - provided it is unmodded.

Mods/assets will sharply increase the RAM usage.