Steam deck players, how did you get your game to run? My game keeps crashing on the steam deck, no matter what I do. The farthest I’ve gotten was about 5 minutes into the game, then either the game crashes or the console just shuts down. It keeps throwing DirectX error on crash. I’ve reinstalled, verified game files, even factory reset the console.
No issues here, do you per chance have any deck mods installed. I read in another thread that someone was crashing due to some steam deck tools.
No, I got the deck last week, this is one of the first games I have installed. I have a couple other games on it too, an some of them are also crashing. I’ve only been able to play heroes of might and magic, and dirt racing game.
Sounds like you might have gotten a dud. I’ve seen reports of people getting 10fps on low settings in a Reddit thread, and it was a hardware issue that got RMAed. Contact support - they’re good and fast at getting back to you. I just went through the issue with an out of warranty deck where the battery wouldn’t charge and they still gave me an RMA.
I have put 46 hours into BG3 exclusively on my Steam Deck. It is installed on the SD card, and I have the game limited to 24fps per a guide that was posted somewhere. I have various decky mods and adjustments from setting up ToTK on yuzu, which included using powertools and making adjustments to BIOS (swap file size increase maybe?)
I am nearing the end of act 1 and the only issues I’ve had are audio related after waking the deck up from sleep. I typically leave the game running and rarely close it completely.
My deck is running the main stable build, and I have the game running with the default proton build, not experimental. Playing with the most popular community Kb&M controller setup listed.
I hope you can figure out how to get it running, because It’s such a good game. Good luck
I also have it on SD card, but couldn’t even get to the main menu most of the time, the game crashes as soon as the loading screen gets to 100. I have it run with proton 8 compatibility.
Just another voice to add that it’s works out if the box on my deck; my only guess is it needs to be specially the steam purchase, otherwise my deck is pretty much as it was when I first got it and the game seems optimized for deck (albeit the graphics aren’t the greatest lol)
Did you purchase on steam or somewhere else? The people I’ve seen reporting issues bought it via GOG for the most part.
It works basically correctly for me. Performance isn’t great. I did have issues right after launch that were resolved with the developer>remove proton files (I think?) option and restarting the install process.
It’s a steam purchase, I’ve been having problems from the get go with this hand held. Im starting to think I got a bad unit.
I could maybe see a memory issue leading to general instability like that.
Valve support has been really good, leaning towards very generous interpretation of the warranty from everything I’ve seen, so an issue on a brand new product should be resolved pretty easily.
You probably don’t have to, but it might save you hassle to try reinstalling steam OS. This is the first guide I found if you have access to a Windows PC. If you have Linux/Mac I can find you the alternative way to write the USB if needed. Sometimes that will clean everything up, even on new units.
I’m about 40 hours in, I have a 3080 card and ultra wide monitor but have played 90% on my steam deck. No crashes, performance is good enough and everything is readable. It’s my perfect handheld RPG.
