Dave the Diver. It’s not only the perfect Steam Deck game, it’s contender for indie game of the year. There’s just so much content and it’s all so good!
I can’t wait to dive into this.
Heh.
It’s crazy how fun this game is in short bursts but it’s also scarily packed with content. I love the little animation cutscenes that they have for bancho and when fulfilling the customer requests.
Been using Yuzu to emulate Tears of The Kingdom. Works so well for the handheld platform.
(For legal reasons this is definitely not actually true please don’t sue me daddy Nintendo)
How’d you get it running smoothly? Mods? Even in Yuzu EA, the base TOTK game is slow.
It took a lot of tinkering, ngl. So far, I’ve gotten it to run at a pretty consistent 30fps with a bit of slowdown when going into areas for the first time due to shader compilation. Of course, big towns and such shows a bit of a slowdown as well, but nothing game breaking. I’m about a third or more through the main story all played on the Deck. Here’s a list of things I’ve done to get it playable:
- Installed Yuzu via EmuDeck. For whatever reason, I couldn’t even launch the game using the standard flatpak version/package version.
- Dynamic 30fps Patch. I tried the 60fps version, but since the game never gets much above 30, I went with the 30fps version since it was noticeably smoother.
- Ran CryoUtilities and let it do its optimizations (increasing vram actually makes the game run worse due to there being less ram. This game/emulator is very memory hungry it seems so skip that one.)
- I use the PowerTools plugin from Decky to set the hardware scheduler to performance mode. I’ve also played around with increasing minimum CPU clock speeds, but I can’t seem to make a difference with those. There were some rumors about disabling the “Odd Number” core option that helped performance,
but I didn’t notice a difference with the current EA build of Yuzu.that turned out to be true. - Using the normal Power Options, force the GPU clock speed to max (1600).
- Running EA Yuzu in Vulkan mode I’m not sure if this makes a difference, but I sourced the game from a specific girl who claims to be fit and likes to repackage things.
A quick note : I’m also running Release 1.0 since whenever I try to upgrade to 1.1, I get an infinite black loading screen. I think this has to do with where I got the 1.0 release from, but I’m not sure. Supposedly, 1.1 has some bug fixes and performance fixes as well, but I’m too far into the game to worry about getting it working at this point.
All of this is purely hypothetical, though, obviously.
Wow thank you for the detailed response!
Tears of the kingdom! emulation has been making strides recently
Is there a tutorial you can recommend? Not long after it came out I managed to get it running, but only in desktop mode, and input wasn’t working at all.
you will need to add Yuzu as a non steam game in desktop mode then you can find it in game mode on that tab. before launching any games at least for me I have to use the touchscreen to launch them at first.
As for input, check the controller settings then go to controller layouts and the community tab, some people have made layouts for it. you might have to experiment with different ones a bit till you find one you like though.
You could try steam rom manager. It allows you to add your roms and/or emulators to your steam list from one app. It comes with emudeck but I think you can get it separately if you don’t want to use the rest of emudeck features.
Been wanting to try it but can’t find a rom. I own the game btw.
It has gotten so much better in the last few weeks. Nearly 30fps stable, far fewer crashes. Very enjoyable!
Lol even the switch can do better than that
Doesn’t the switch dynamically downscale the resolution though? I thought that was how they kept it at 30 on the switch.
- Risk of Rain 2
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
- Brotato
- 20 Minutes Till Dawn
- Broforce
- Cats Organized Neatly
- Ever Seen a Cat 2
- Call of Juarez
- Postal 2
- …and of course, Hades
Dave the Diver…
Absolutely! Have been really wanting something to follow up my Dredge addiction this past winter, and this seems perfect. Love how there’s constantly new stuff happening. The core gameplay loop is perfectly sound as well.
Diablo 2 Resurrected
Dead Cells
Dragons Dogma
Grim Dawn
Vampire Survivors
How’s Grim Dawn with controller?
Great. It has native support, only the menus and inventory are a little wonky, since you have to navigate the cursor with the sticks but I just mapped the right touchpad as mouse and problem solved.
Wow I’ve been playing through Grim Dawn for the past couple of days on my Deck dealing with the wonky UI controls, and I having right track pad just be the mouse would solve 99% of my issues. I can’t believe I didn’t just rebind it. I even went through a couple of community profiles lol
Been playing a lot of Diablo 4 and sleeping dogs.
Do you have the steps to run diablo 4 on the steam deck? I havent explored non steam games
There are a few ways but here’s my preferred method
- Desktop mode
- Install Lutris
- Search for battle.net in Lutris and install
- Launch battle.net
- Install Diablo 4 through battle.net
There are a few guides around with more detail but it’s very straight forward. Also a few guides out there on how to maximize battery life. I get 2.5hrs or so, closer to 3 if I avoid towns.
Yup, same way I installed it.
Great name! Throwback…
Thanks!
I would not recommend Lutris/wine for D4 since it tuns perfectly on Proton Experimental, at that point you are just introducing another layer of potential compatibility issues that are completely unnecessary. I tried using Lutris on launch day and it was a total headache with various components being incompatible.
Just install the launcher in desktop mode and add it as a steam game, then set compatibility mode to Proton Experimental. Done.
I followed this guy’s YouTube tutorial to get D4 working on the steam deck. Super clear instructions and worked like a charm. I did end up tweaking the settings a bit and am not playing at 60 fps (opted for 45), but it runs great. Here’s the link for the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/zxet_LLQIwE
Just finished South Park Stick of Truth, now moving on to Fracture but Whole. They play really well on the deck and had them in my backlog.
Also just picked up Dave the Diver, so looking forward to give that a spin.
I just finished Ori and the Blind Forest and it was a lot of fun. Really well done game in my opinion. Similar to Hollow Knight, if you’ve played that.
If you haven’t played Hollow Knight, play Hollow Knight.
Here’s hoping you move on to Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It’s one of my favorite of all time.
Just finished Doom 2016. Really fun and also to train gyro aiming. Started Wolfenstein new order, but I’m kinda not hooked, probably because gameplay is slower then Doom. Got Dandy Ace in the sale, may just play that for a while.
Also finished Cult of the lamb and tomb raider earlier.
Itching to get diablo 4, but then I won’t play anything else and I still have many games I want to try/finish.
Going to move onto doom 2016 once I’ve finished bully
One thing I’m worried about is how exhausting the game can be… I’ve played a mission or two and after the mission I’m left drained with hesitation of starting the next mission lol… such an intense game
Anyway, hope to have some fun with it once I get onto it
Gyro aiming is awesome once you get used to it. I don’t always keep it on, but I definitely play better when it is on.
My aging hands can’t support the weight of the deck with gyro aiming on during long periods of play. Or if they can, I’ll still feel it later.
I think gyro aiming with a gamepad is perfect though. Doom on the Switch was very fun because of that.
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Death Stranding
- Diablo 2: Resurrected
- Stardew Valley
- No Mans Sky
So far any of those games perform really well. Especially RDR2 is nice to play. The visuals of that game are stunning, but then again Death Stranding is nothing to sneeze at, too
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Diablo IV on my Gaben Boy.
Mostly Spyro Reignited here, reliving the moments of my childhood in higher definition. Along with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Yesss, I played New Super Lucky’s Tale after seeing my kid play it on the Switch. It resparked some nostalgia for classic 3D platforming so I ended up getting Spyro, Crash and Kao the Kangaroo. Been having a blast.
Cult of the Lamb is an amazing roguelike / messed up animal crossing mashup
Diablo 2. Haven’t played any Diablo games until a few days ago, but can’t put the damn game damn now.
I’ve played every game in the series for countless hours and continuously throughout my life come back to 2. Playing 4 right now, but I keep finding myself wanting to quit and play 2. Also the remaster is incredibly well done.
It’s really fun, disappointed that I waited this long to play them.
Is there a guide to get Diablo 2 working on the deck?
You can install the blizzard launcher from the desktop in the deck, add it as a non steam game then do the same thing for Diablo 2 once blizzard downloads it. I forget the actual steps, but I followed a guide online.
I’d think following a guide for Diablo 4 to get bnet installed and then install D2 resurrected should work.
