Here’s a video of gameplay on the deck
I really love how SquareEnix is putting effort into making their games work well on Steam Deck.
I love it everytime I see a big company trying to ensure their game runs well on Deck. Companies caring about performance on a linux device at all is wild.
On the other hand, it’s a lowest common denominator they can target. “It runs well on the Deck! We’ve done our job.” and the fact that it sold a lot means it’s a market that it’s probably worth the investment (can’t imagine it’s that much) in making a game work. After all any optimization for the Deck also translates into similarly modest hardware being able to run the game…
Not that I complain! Completely gave up on Windows a few months ago lol
the fact that it sold a lot means it’s a market that it’s probably worth the investment (can’t imagine it’s that much)
Something I’ve heard is that deck users tend to buy more games and more new releases than your average non-deck user (which makes sense considering most of us are financially well off enough to buy a second PC for portable play). So even though the total number of deck users isn’t huge compared to steam as a whole, there’s a much more significant percentage of launch purchases that are being played on deck.
Some indie game reported that 10% of their launch sales went to people playing on Steam Deck, which is a sizable market chunk, and a much higher percentage of players than the the steam hardware survey would suggest to expect.
Hooray! My steam deck can play it! Unlike my PS5 with its failing GPU
Wait whaaat? How is it failing? I’m really curious to know your experience!
Well I did some research when I purchased ff7 rebirth on PS5 and I tried everything on the troubleshooting page to get it to work, I would launch the game and it would immediately crash. I went down the rabbit hole and found similar symptoms on reddit and people had posited that the GPU was failing resulting in a game crash. Now I didn’t dig into what specifically caused it to fail but it seemed to revolve around games that were graphics hogs. Which lines up with the fact that the GPU could be failing.
Is this part 2 of 3 or part 2 of 2?
Funny story: I started playing this on the PlayStation back in the day, a couple of years after it had come out and cemented its reputation. I did the intro mission in the reactor and then all of the characters were stood in a room doing exposition and what not. I was quite enjoying it.
Then the doorbell rang. I must’ve only been gone for a couple of minutes but when I got back everyone had vanished and I had no idea where they’d gone or what I was supposed to be doing.
Rather than replaying that first 30 minutes I just turned it off and never played it again. Truly the best of times.
remake ran great on the deck for me too! i played it on the ps5 already but i loved having it on my pc/steam deck so i can bring it with me
