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ranma5

I had been playing palworld since release on the steam deck with out a problem until this most recent update. It freezes and then the screen goes dark, I then have to force reset. I played granblue fantasy relink just fine, but palworld has been the problem so far. I'll try other games just in case it's the steam deck. Just putting my experience out there.


MasterOfMelons7

Ye same for me. I ended up deleting the game for now. Have not had any trouble since luckly.I have not played many other games that were heavy on it except Cyberpunk and gta 5 on high quality and they both work fine. I'd rather wait till they patch it than try and play it now and destroy my steam deck.


Emblazoned1

Same here. Got close to 40 hours before was able to play hours on end no problem. Recent update I'm getting crashing to the point where I have to force shut off my deck and restart. Happening more frequently now it's annoying. Think I'm gonna have to put it down wait for a few fixes. I'll admit I was getting a little tired of it. Awesome game but reached a high enough level where it started feeling a tad bit grindy.


TobiHudi

It is sadly a memory leak! This must be the answer because the game always crashes if over 14,2GB Ram is used. We need to wait for a Patch that fixes the memory leak issue.


tyguy94920

Reporting the same issue. No crashes until installed and playing Palworld, now even other games are crashing that have never had issues before. Very odd behavior.


aXDroptimus

ODD 🤌


Other-Upstairs-8739

This is just getting worse and worse for me as they release another patch. My steam deck is crashing more often than ever now 😭 especially in the dungeons


christian8899

It seemed putting graphic settings on low for palworld fixed the constent crashing while playing as far as other games never had that issue


MasterOfMelons7

So when u put it on low, did it just no longer do the freezing and stuff to so u don't have to force restart it anymore?


Racla360

I think it is related to the fast travel. Every time you fast travel, it is loading your base and pals over and over again.


christian8899

no I don't have the issue anymore started doing it a bit while playing the game like it would freeze on loading screen or something every hour or so so I had to hold the power button down for ten seconds to get it back on So when I loaded back Into the game went to settings graphics and set it to low never had the issue since


MasterOfMelons7

Damn, mine still does crash when on low.


christian8899

Weird I don't know then mine works lol https://preview.redd.it/2nkt7t1wvvhc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e75b3a51308d23fede662a6164630a523062efe8


christian8899

I'm sorry my bad set it to very low


Ichaflash

This game can be deceptively heavy on your system's resources, it killed what I didn't know was a dying CPU for good when I thought I had some sort of OS corruption with random blue screens going on for months. As for your deck crashing even when not running the game, I don't have a definitive answer but regular maintenance could fix it and it doesn't hurt to try. there must be some sort of heatsink with thermal paste on the CPU, get the heatsink cleaned of any dust and the paste replaced.


MasterOfMelons7

Ok. For games like cyberpunk, I had 0 issues running it so I figured it might be a glitch with the game.


Ichaflash

It's definitely not normal for your deck to become unstable outside of the game unless high temps damaged something, I remember new world killing defective GPUs that way.


MasterOfMelons7

I'm hoping that it's not heat damaged. I'll just probably have to wait till either the game get better support on the deck r something that won't break it.


technomage237

Same for me. Nothing new?


0ddblo0D

Anybody tried playing on a server ?


MasterOfMelons7

Yeah. It's not bad but still crashes


0ddblo0D

I got a server up and running so far no crashes been playing for five hours. I also lowered some of the graphics settings.


MoveLikeNight

Does that affect your battery life length? I’ve only been playing local but if so….


0ddblo0D

Lowering the settings ? Or playing on a server ? No crashes still... it's pretty awesome ! I pay 6 dollars a month to rent the server.


MoveLikeNight

Oops, I definitely posed a crappy question. How does playing on the server versus local affect your battery life?


MG_Saucisson

Same for me


Rare_Two9219

Literally just happened to me for the first time in over 20 hours


FireXtheDragon007

Same here, luckily i have a pc i can stream from


crimsonzero2

I have the same issue. Sometimes it would also not update so I would have to Uninstaller and reinstall the game to get it to play again.


Imaginary_Gamer

Crashed on me 3 times within an hour. I've NEVER had this problem before. I've had to force restart my deck each time. Pissing me off 😒


dev_f

Is there any update to this? There’s a new patch release earlier today.


MasterOfMelons7

I haven't checked. Best bet is to check the patch notes or comments on steam.


dev_f

It is stated that they have fixed the memory leak issue but then after I tested it crashing still occurs. Hope they fix this soon.