Steam Deck and Modding

[Gedget]

Hi, I just got a steam deck and i noticed my mods crash the game. it works on pc but on the deck it just loads to utilizing then thats it. I assume steam deck built differently so not all mods are compatible with it? Im just curious. Thanks.

[Zzo]

Does your Steam Deck have as much memory as your pc? I notice with some mods it has very high memory usage at one point during loading (and goes down afterwards). The game crashes at that time if it runs out of memory.

[Gedget]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย DaKat:

Does your Steam Deck have as much memory as your pc? I notice with some mods it has very high memory usage at one point during loading (and goes down afterwards). The game crashes at that time if it runs out of memory.

Yeah you could be right. I wish there was some way to check. My PC is more hefty. Thanks.

[midnightShade29]

Steam deck is 16gb of shared ram. Rimworld uses 384MB vram on a 1080p display, probably less (like 256mb) for steam decks 800p. That and 2gb of system ram.

That would leave 13.5gb ram free for mods. Many people play this game on 8gb or less machines and have no issue. I doubt memory is the issue. Probably something to do with proton and how the mod accesses files, due to linux.

[boytype]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย midnightShade29:

That would leave 13.5gb ram free for mods.

Rimworld is much more CPU intensive then it is RAM (or GPU) intensive.

[midnightShade29]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย boytype:

Rimworld is much more CPU intensive then it is RAM (or GPU) intensive.

Yep, all those colonists have ai schedules and path tracing. The more people the more cpu resources that uses. Steam deck is an 8 core cpu. Which should be more then enough. I played this on a laptop with old sandy bridge i3 2100 ( a dual core 2nd gen i3 cpu) and intel integrated 620 graphics, 8gb ram, and had no issues back a few years ago.

If the switch can run factorio and prison architect i would assume the steam deck could easily run this with mods, unless the mod is adding 10000s of new people /variables.

[boytype]

Rimworld does not support multi-threaded processors very well. The game does not take advantage of multi-threading.

It actually runs better the fewer cores you have, as crazy as that may seem. So it probably runs better on your dual core than it does on something with 8 cores.

[Gedget]

Huh interesting. Thanks for the informations guys. Never thought about how much certain things work in a way. I'm not big techy person hahah.
I did get rimworld working once I unsub all my weapon addon and faction addon mods. Guess having all that was too much.