KILL la KILL -IF Steam Deck fix?

[Captain Diagram]

Had to play this game when it came out on Switch since it didn't release on Xbox, ended up buying it on sale on Steam a long while ago.

It NEARLY works perfectly on the Steam deck, the game boots up, menus work, and you can watch cutscenes without issue, but anytime any gameplay starts it crashes within 1-6 seconds. It seems to need some kind of fix, does anyone know anything? I've looked around at what feels like everywhere.

EDIT: I can finally say that KILL la KILL -IF works on the Steam Deck, with the caveat of it having major performance issues. You need this patch to make the game run in Gaming Mode.
https://gist.github.com/bkacjios/649227c6691d2f49faaba871a11e351b

[Captain Diagram]

For those curious, the Restitched mod also works perfectly on the Deck until any gameplay starts. Felt like I'd mention it.

[MewiNATOR]

I can't make it to start :(

[Captain Diagram]

It only boots in Desktop Mode for me

[MewiNATOR]

Originally posted by Captain Diagram:

It only boots in Desktop Mode for me

Thanks! I'll try that

[76561198856165040]

Did you get it working on deck yet?

[Captain Diagram]

nah tried like 2 months ago and same result, asked around in KLK IF Discords and had no luck. Unless someone found something pretty recently its currently a lost cause.

[76561198856165040]

I see. Thank you for replying. Have been checking every once in a while for a solution.

[IronFoxfire]

Hello! I don't browse the steam stuff too much just got my eye on this. I was curious is it just a set time or is it after the character intro's that it crash's?

[Captain Diagram]

I only tried in Story Mode and Training which have no intros iirc, gameplay would start but crash 3-6 seconds into the fight every time. Story mode cut scenes worked perfectly fine as well from what I saw.

[TotallyNotJumpy]

honestly you'd probably be better off emulating it on yuzu.

[Captain Diagram]

I own the game on Switch and could play it there but I wanted to play on PC because of mods. Doesn't look like it's gonna happen anytime soon but the game seems close to working so maybe eventually one day.

[Scott Pilgrim]

yep still broken. tried everything this week. cannot get it to run without crashing. very sad because i'd love to sink some hours into this game on my deck. such a shame

[Captain Diagram]

Only way I ever see it working is if somebody knowledgeable makes some kind of mod/patch. I don't think Proton continuing to advance will do us any good, this seems like a game specific issue needing a game specific fix. Still hoping tho

[Final Badguy]

Originally posted by Captain Diagram:

Only way I ever see it working is if somebody knowledgeable makes some kind of mod/patch. I don't think Proton continuing to advance will do us any good, this seems like a game specific issue needing a game specific fix. Still hoping tho

eh, came across a github issue related to it, cuz i do recall while i was tinkering with it that it's dxvk not allocating enough memory to it
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3766
idk if anyone's gonna do anything about it

[CAM ON INGERLUND!!!]

Originally posted by Final Badguy:

Originally posted by Captain Diagram:

Only way I ever see it working is if somebody knowledgeable makes some kind of mod/patch. I don't think Proton continuing to advance will do us any good, this seems like a game specific issue needing a game specific fix. Still hoping tho

eh, came across a github issue related to it, cuz i do recall while i was tinkering with it that it's dxvk not allocating enough memory to it
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3766
idk if anyone's gonna do anything about it

Had a look through it and it's a shame that WineD3D accelerates the issue. Shame since I was looking forward to replaying it. So the choice is playing it on Windows or using an emulator for now.