Bad Performance on Steam Deck

[constantine88]

Hello,

I am experiencing bad performance on Steam Deck.
Only on low details the game can mostly keep a steady framerate (locked at 30), but dips regularly below 30 FPS.
Also it hangs for a second every now and then.

I am running the game off the SD Card.

Ist this performance to be expected?

Thanks for your help :-)

[BeansV11]

RTS's do have nearly always bad perf

[Moldi Stromboly]

I think this game is CPU-bound on the deck. Doesn't seem to matter if I lower the resolution, framerate once a game gets going seems to be stuck in the 20-27 range no matter what wattage I set.

The "Steam Deck" status needs to be updated, this game does *not* perform well on the deck, even at lowest settings

[ScottyBoy (Lamebax)]

Yeah, i just finished testing it a bit on the Steam Deck and i could just get about 30 FPS when there wasn't any action going on and even then it seemed to drop a bit every now and again. I also noticed that some cutscenes don't play correctly, there is only a black screen but i can still hear the sounds of the cutscene playing in the background.

[NanoFighter]

unfortunately this game has performance issues everywhere... Still today I would like to play this game at better performance but it doesn't have more resolution options, and the devs didn't apply optimization tweaks...

[[AMB]Messer]

Originally posted by ScottyBoy (Smash Nashers):

Yeah, i just finished testing it a bit on the Steam Deck and i could just get about 30 FPS when there wasn't any action going on and even then it seemed to drop a bit every now and again. I also noticed that some cutscenes don't play correctly, there is only a black screen but i can still hear the sounds of the cutscene playing in the background.

So it seems like black screen issue extends to steam deck, too

[Atlan]

What a pity. I just wanted to buy it...

[BeansV11]

basically dont touch RTS games unless you want your anything to commit suicide

[Moldi Stromboly]

Its pretty sad that Rusted Warfare can handle thousands of units but most AA/AAA RTS games buckle because they used canned engines that don't multithread well

[Commodus]

Originally posted by AMBMesser:

Originally posted by ScottyBoy (Smash Nashers):

Yeah, i just finished testing it a bit on the Steam Deck and i could just get about 30 FPS when there wasn't any action going on and even then it seemed to drop a bit every now and again. I also noticed that some cutscenes don't play correctly, there is only a black screen but i can still hear the sounds of the cutscene playing in the background.

So it seems like black screen issue extends to steam deck, too

If you add

WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1 %command%

To launch options the videos should run.

FPS can be tough going on the deck though. I seem to get about 25 FPS, but at the big battles or when there's a lot of units it drops down to 10 ish, which makes it difficult. I can stretch to 20 to consider it playable, but the huge dips make it straight up jank. Pity, quite a fun game, hopefully they optimize it. I should note I'm playing off SD card and haven't tested playing off internal NVMe

[Joseph]

are you using an external monitor ? what about you lower the resolution below 720p and activate fsr ? i see 20-fps increase on some games

[DeTH]

i cant get off the main menu after i click "Press any button too continue" command