Article taken from, you might ask, but all the games I just named have gamepad support - what about the decades of mouse-and-keyboard fare? The Steam Deck lets you borrow or build a dizzying array of custom control schemes that make them feel at home, too. You can buy it on Humble Store and Steam. Seems it's quite a problematic port overall, as the Steam user reviews instantly went down to Mixed (Edit: and now 'Mostly Negative'), with many people on Windows reporting problematic performance and constant crashes. Now think about people who do genuinely swap between PC and Steam Deck, practically the entire refund window gone to see if you have issues with it.įor desktop though, you can of course get much better performance and at least on the Linux side, it actually seems to run reasonably well even at 2560x1440 with FSR set to Balanced it can mostly stick around 60FPS.īoth shots were actually 60FPS, but Plasma screenshot spikes the FPS down.

When you only have a 2 hour refund window on Steam, that's not good. Then it took a good 30 minutes (almost to the dot) to do the shaders even with this clearly much more powerful system. Valve did give it a special Proton Hotfix, which doesn't seem to have done enough to make it properly playable or be something I can recommend at this time.Īs for how it runs on desktop Linux? On my Ryzen 7 5800X and NVIDIA 2080 Ti (Fedora KDE), it gives an out of date driver warning that can be ignored to begin with. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view.

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