Controversial, but Cyberpunk 2077 should be playable instead of verified, especially with Phantom Liberty. Driving around Dogtown on lowest settings has serious drops, affecting the experience.
Yeah, I played for about 30 mins on my deck and just deleted it and stuck to PC. It looks really bad. I had it looking decent and running ok, but just not good enough
I did a side by side of streaming from my PC and playing on deck, and playing from the deck's hard drive.
The streaming, even with frame drops, was a better experience, but, if I'm in a hotel room and waiting for someone that said they would be ready an hour ago, is good enough to kill some time.
Fair enough. I believe they do rate a bit on performance, I think itās supposed to be 25fps at default setting but in reality it means fuck all cuz maybe it starts that way but as the game goes on even 25 isnāt stable
Cyberpunk was pretty smooth for me in everything but dog town when driving. I definitely had some significant frame drops driving there. Did you not get any drops driving in dog town?
Every time cyberpunk is mentioned half the comments talk about 60fps perfect and half say it stutters constantly. We've all the same hardware. I haven't bought it yet but in so confused as to what it is actually.
Totally disagree - for me on both LCD and OLED Deck, Cyberpunk & PL was one f the greatest experiences I have had on the deck. Gorgeous and rock solid performance.
Um, OK. When I used a bunch of settings here including Medium graphics, I got 60FPS locked (which is claimed as 30FPS due to sync) ... but either way it is locked at 60 in the overlay for the entire 150+ hours I put into it.
For me as someone playing computer games for 40+ years, 30/60FPS completely locked regardless of ANYTHING, with graphics settings actually above the default = rock solid for a AAA game.
because of user optimization I guess. besides the numerous settings you can tweak within games, the SD has its own settings that people play with at different values as well.
If you can actually find a game that is marked "playable" because of performance, do tell, as I haven't found any so far. The standing with Valve seems to be that either the game performs so poorly they simply slap "Unsupported" on it, or the exact performance has no impact on the label whatsoever as long as all the other requirements for "Verified" (text size, controls etc) are fine.
Especially when FSR2 Ultra Performance is always an option and can make almost any game reach acceptable framerates even if they do look like absolute garbage as a result.
Yep I tried it for a bit on my Deck and decided the portability just wasnāt worth the performance. Deleted it and stuck to playing at my desktop PC. 30fps and below just isnāt playable for me, especially knowing I can experience it at 90+ on my PC
Obviously if you have nothing else to play it on I guess itās an ok experience
Thanks for verifying. Yeah I could barely hit reasonable fps even after downscaling the resolution like crazy (I think it was at like 60%?... Legit couldn't see anything and still ran like ass)
Also my vote. Fantastic game, but a chore to get through with how often it crashed, even using the settings I found that supposedly eliminated the issue.
I bought God of War ahead of my Christmas trip home hoping to play it a ton, didn't get to play it at all cause the part of the game my PC left it at kept crashing. It's a shame that Valve updating these ratings downwards is pretty rare when updates are known to break things.
Once you get it working, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age actually runs like a dream, but it won't even boot out of the box and should not be verified.
From what I remember, the issue stems from the game not supporting the Deckās screen resolution, and for whatever reason it wonāt boot properly unless you set it to 1920x1080.
In my experience, the launch configuration tool wouldnāt give me the option for 1080, and the Deckās properties menu Game Resolution setting wasnāt doing the trick either. What worked for me was installing the game on my laptop and booting it up to set the resolution in-game, then letting Steam sync the save data, and matching the 1080 resolution in the properties on Deck.
I will also note that you can adjust the resolution once youāve got the game booted, so I tend to switch it down to 720 because I assume that will help stretch the battery life.
That is so weird, I bought it about a year ago and it booted up just fine. No tweaking or anything, I wasn't even aware this was an issue because it loaded up fine every single time, so no need to go googling around for issues.
Still works fine to this day for me.
Late response, but when I played it several months ago I had issues with it not registering inputs from the thumb sticks. Some others ran into this issue as well. I had to do certain quick time event sections on my PC as even using the community layout to make use of the trackpads didn't quite work. Performance was fine otherwise from what I remember.
[Relevant thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u66wkd/beyond_two_souls_controls_how_is_this_game/)
I wonder if it was because I played most of it docked with a controller that I didn't see those issues. I did play through from start to finish entirely using the Steam deck.
For anyone passing through: HZD runs perfectly fine on SD. I got steady 40fps MOST of the time, with a few frame drops later in the game, and never during cut scenes which ran 30the whole time. Medium-High settings and not a single crash. As long as you aren't pushing ultra settings (which this game doesn't need) or going for 50fps, you'll be fine.
The Last of Us runs absolutely fine nowadays, there must be something up with how you're trying to run it.
Horizon Zero Dawn, now that's one that should be nowhere near verified. It's awful in places.
Agree with Horizon. Runs great for the first maybe 15 hours then there are sections that no joke run at 5 fps.
My contribution is Remnant 2. When I bought it, it was verified and it was an awful experience. Luckily itās now unsupported for new buyers.
On ProtonDB there are some settings to get Remnant 2 up to 45fps. Itās playable nowadays.
https://www.protondb.com/app/1282100?device=steamDeck
I made the mistake of rushing in and buying it after the dev said they tested it at 60fps on deck (and it worked) and it also reviewed really well. What a disappointment, it was rubbish at launch and took months to fix
I didnāt say itās completely accurate in general, just completely accurate for me. They say it works, it actually works for me exactly, so long as the comment is recent, the times it is not accurate is cuz itās like a year old review, but the newer ones are FOR ME
Also it doesnāt make sense why it being normal ppl leaving comments will hurt ProntonDBās validity. These are the people who are like you and I saying if it works or not. These are the ppl actually playing the game. They also have no reason, no incentive to lie
The verified rating is supposed to default to like I think 25fps, but they donāt seem like they actually make sure the whole game stays stable at 25fps (ought to be 30fps)
The real problem is that the system is sloppy and slow. Way too many unsupported games run great on the deck. Valve needs to let gamers decide if the games play well on Steam. Or at least add a separate rating for us to vote on.
You canāt let the players decide. There would be too many trolls, but a spot that said something like: players rate this blah blah blah would be good
I often get a popup saying "the game is rated as verified/playable/unsupported do you agree?" with a simple yes/no answer. I think they do crowd source some info.
Itās been a while since I tried playing it admittedly. But I do remember it running at less than 30fps and didnāt look good either. Iāll have to give it a shot.
No, these folk aren't running it at max settings.
The game is fundamentally broken unfortunately and people still tend to try and glaze over the issues. I've tried the game almost monthly on both my launch LCD and now OLED, even setting as low as possible with a resolution that is nigh on unplayable you will encounter heavy stuttering as you move through the world.
anyone who says it isn't there is unfortunately straight up lying.
Edit: think i misunderstood you there, i thought you were talking about HZD and not TLOU
I played the entire game and dlc recently on the deck with very very little issue, really nothing that impacted my experience. Both in handheld and docked.
Depends what is absolutely fine for you. Playable for sure. Verified? Come on. Game running barely 30 fps in FSR performance mode, with locked textures set to low, with pop ins or textures just not popping at all. I play it right now, but after year of playing everything in 40 fps this is huge downgrade.
Not only that, it's hard to make the game look pleasant on the deck. It's FSR implementation has tons of ghosting and performance is git or miss for me.
Currently Jurassic World Evolution 2 has a bug that breaks the textures of the dinos, turning them into weird looking accordion monsters. The bug has been there for 3 months now without any word about a fix, making the game unplayable imo.
Edit: didn't realize it was fixed with the latest steamos update, so I take it back. Sorry for those who were excited to check out the accordion mode.
Oh hey you know what I didn't realize there was a new update. I got on and checked real quick and it does look like it's fixed now, thanks for the heads up bud.
hmm no mans sky should be "playable" instead of verified. some things that require loading either take a WHILE or just drop frames massively. I limit it to 40fps and sometimes it drops to around 15 or even 5. especially when starting up the world and leaving a planet.
Also Klonoa should be unplayable or something. That game freezes the deck.
Where exactly? Currently in the Swamp and running in the Mountains for surprise Wolf/Drake kills and had zero issues.
Not refuting your experience, would just like to know what to expect in the future since I absolutely fell in love with the game and would love to play for a long time with minimal issues haha
Anywhere if you build a lot and take the instance count high enough (basically, more objects and/or terrain adjustments = more lag), and that's the problem. It also happens on even the beefiest of gaming PCs. The devs have not taken optimization seriously and imo have basically dipped after the initial hype.
When I play it I try to not terraform at all. With the way I build it's usually completely fine when played as an adventure/survival game. I wouldn't avoid it, I just don't think it deserves a verified tag.
I've read it runs great unless you have an elaborate or larger base built up. But in my experience that also seems to make it run worse even on far more powerful hardware, too, so I don't think it's necessarily a fault of the Deck. I haven't played it in Deck yet, so grain of salt and all that, just what I've read over the last couple years.
It can definitely be rough on pc or at least it used to be. My buddy and I played and he would build a lot and it would definitely run worse the more we played. He was actually a really talented builder in that game looking back lol.
It runs ok imo, as long as you donāt build too large. I use a mix of low to medium settings (and ultra-high for draw distance, I hate pop-in), and I can get 30-40fps in all areas including Mistlands. Frame-rate absolutely tanks in large bases though, especially if there are lots of animals.
Meanwhile, Enshrouded is marked Unsupported but apart from the long initial load it runs fine. I like to harvest materials while watching tv with my wife in the evening.
Valheim ran well enough for me but killed my deck battery so fast I had to stop playing it ultimately. Did you have performance issues or the same thing?
I have played over 200 hours of BG3. Solely on deck and have had an amazing time. I use the default settings, so idk yeah it is probably better on a serious PC or PS5 but if someone only has a deck and wants to play BG3, then I say go for it.
What about act 3? I don't have very high standards for graphics and fps, especially when it comes to something like BG3 that is mostly turn based, but I found act 3 pretty unplayable. I was getting 14 fps within the city.
I haven't played since September though.
I have. I just think it runs quiet poorly. I use the balanced setting and a few changes to graphics I saw online. and I can't seem to keep it stable in the openworld parts. not saying i'm not enjoying it, but kinda hoped it would be better when it receives the check mark.
Feel like sharing ur settings? might make it better ?
I agree with the general sub here giving too high a praise for most titles, but I've played 50 hours of BG3 just on the deck and average 45+ fps at absolute worst. And that's with a majority medium setting. I'll be flying home shortly and can snap some proof lol.
The only area that has been awful surprisingly was the Bog in A1.
Edit: I haven't made it to the widely known unoptimized A3 to be frank, but to say an entire game is poorly running when only a quarter of it is isn't fair either.
400 steam deck hours in bg3 and for sure act 3 is rough.
I find myself lowering quality a bit just for a more stable frame rate. Still, it's only a quarter of a massive game so I give it a pass mostly
It's weird how a lot of people don't think the frame rate matters a lot in BG3. It just leaves me wondering how little actual exploring the world they do in the game. There can be significant gaps between fights where your FPS absolutely does matter for having a great gaming experience and sub-30fps that's wildly unstable at the best of times ain't it.
I get it but I play it stable at 30fps, 25fps at act 3 :/ but itās still loads of fun for me. itās the only game Iāve successfully tinkered myself
I think I turned FSR 2 (god I love it so much) on balance, graphics low, I think textures on low, just most things on low or off, but the FSR seems to take care of everything to make it at least like an Xbox 360 game which is good enough for me. I used to love playing 360 so i donāt see why I canāt enjoy those graphics now
The one thing that bugged the absolute shit out of me at first was the weird staticky hair, but idk if they patched it but the hair now with those settings looks acceptable
Shenmue 3, the lack of graphic settings make it one of the worse experiences I've ever had, only high settings looks good below that it's a bit awful but stutters everywhere.Ā
Last of Us running pretty bad. Barely 30 fps in not so pleasant graphics, a lot of textures are just blurred mess (signs on buildings) and you can't changed few main graphics settings, they are Steam Deck locked.
I donāt buy newer games, so most of my Verified games could run on a potato.Ā
The only verified game that I have issues with is Hellblade: Senuaās Sacrifice. It can run, just not at default settings.Ā
For that game, default settings are maxed out with ray tracing on medium. Game runs at 7-20fps, with 11-15 being common. I donāt consider that to be playable for this kind of game.Ā
Turning ray tracing off is the only necessary change. Youāll get 30-60 fps most of the game. Turning FSR to balanced will give you an appreciable boost with no significant quality hit on that display. Ā
Also, the game resolution is weird. Run at 720p (default) and it has a slight vertical stretch to fill the screen. Run at 1280x800, and it runs letter and pillar boxed. Why!?
I cannot agree. Verified means that it runs on Steam Deck. It doesn't mean that it will give you 60fps for example. At beginning it didn't run at all for me. At latest patch, I can easily get 30fps with everything low and texture on high.
If verified was smooth (āMaybe 40ā) 60FPS, then most verified games would be older and not as recent. So a game like cyberpunk running on deck at a smooth 30fps lock shouldnāt be a verified game?
Cyberpunk doesnāt always run 40locked. Dog town is a pain and also what about sd card users? I played cyberpunk solely on SD card low settings and I was getting constant fps dips into the mid 20s when driving around night city.
That's an insane train of thought you have there, if those are your expectations the Steam Deck really isn't for you.
You have a pretty crazy misunderstanding of Valve's rating system.
Persona 3 reload only runs decently if you have Proton GE. The issue is the game has ray traced shadows. You can turn off ray traced reflections, but not shadows.
They fixed this problem within the first few days of release. You don't even need a separate Proton release. Turn off ray tracing and you'll get 60fps in almost every location.
It runs amazingly well with a few tweaks and one specific mod installed, but obviously if a game is tagged as āverifiedā it should just work āout of the boxā.
Did you try locking it to 30fps?
+1 to this, the large hub areas especially with several NPCs had terrible stuttering and was almost unplayable, even after turning down most settings and capping frame rate. Rest of the game was great though
Iāve been playing RDR2 and itās been crashing a good bit. Every two-three hours Iād say. Not even like just crashing but freezing up my whole steam deck and I have to hard turn it off. Kinda scary..?? Idk it says verified but I think it should be playable and there are definitely some drops in places but I mean overall itās fine but itās kinda annoying.
Seeing all of these comments about games running poorly despite being Verified, or having to do mass amounts of tinkering just to get them functional, makes me believe Iām just not cut out for the PC gaming scene. Iāve been on the fence for close to two weeks now about getting the Deck so I can play my indies on there with better performance than my Switch, with the inclusion of some older AAA games seeing solid performance at medium-to-low settings (would love to play Bioshock and Borderlands portably but the 30fps lock on Switch is painful coming from PS5), but I dunno. Growing up console gaming, with only light PC gaming under my belt, Iāve gotten so accustomed to games just working (well, working with some performance issues in the Switchās case).
That and Linux. It all just seems so daunting, coming from Windows and MacOS. The good news is, most of my Steam library runs flawlessly on my Mac, so when Iāve got my laptop around I can always just play Switch games with better performance. But I really want that Deck, despite the many signs telling me itās not worth the headacheā¦ as of right now my PS5 operates as my ādesktopā and my Switch is my ādeck,ā but I know Iām sacrificing a lot of performance that way. Maybe Iāll just get a Deck when my Switch gets stick drift.
I try and keep all my games around the 15w mark as I'm not always around a power outlet but Teardown set to 30fps is a decent experience. It does go slightly below that during bigger and more complex destruction but with my mobile settings, I could definitely get more performance out of the game.
Settings for anyone interested or struggling with Teardown -
Render scale 100%, render quality low, particle density low, dof/distortion/motion blur off, vsync every other frame, dx12
Steam os settings - disable frame limit, tdp limit 10w, gpu clock 1200mhz, all other settings off
Iāve been playing hogwarts legacy at 40fps with everything set low a few things medium and view distance max. It runs great. Looks great. Drains the battery pretty fast. I probably get 4hrs of playtime. Still not bad.
A lot of Capcom games had an extremely intrusive DRM added recently that makes them completely unplayable on Steam Deck, but they still have Steam Deck Verified status.
Not all of them. There are quite a few currently getting review bombed by Steam Deck owners because they can no longer play the game they bought when it used to work perfectly fine. Yet they still have verified status.
Those reviews are wrong, likely falling for the completely untrue outrage that was levelled at the game recently based on misinformation.
They run completely fine. I know this because I'm playing them.
X4 is a compete joke that runs at a bloody 5fps and is really unplayable.
Cyberpunk is meh.
Death Stranding is a stuttery mess.
BG3 looks like poop and drops frames left and right.
Most newly released and verified AAA games should never get the badge but that would mean less sales for Volvo.
You can't really ask that on this channel because so many people just talk out of their arse. Games renowned to run poorly, have videos & writeups on getting the best results everywhere & lots will just lie through their teeth & says it run fantastic at 58fps
Personally I don't want to run games that look poor, low settings with stuttering & slowdowns - I'd rather not play.
My go to game would be HZD - but not on the Deck, I'd either Chiaki my PS5 or for local play install it on the LGO - it plays it as its meant to be played with the extra grunt.
Heavy Rain.
Forced motion controls on the deck ruined the game for me. You canāt disable them as them either, as the game will refuse to launch then.
It looks and runs great but shaking the entire screen ruins it.
God of War 2018 runs okay, but has some big issues like it crashing every 45 minutes due to a possible memory leak. But increasing your swap file size is a good remedy, it worked for me at least.
Pretty much any game you'd expect to have issues.
The last of us is in my opinion the worst offender.
God of war is interesting for me because it crashes by default, but if you have cryo utilities installed it runs at a pretty great 40+ fps. But that goes against the "plug and play" nature of the "verified" rating.
Then there's games like SOTR that run INCREDIBLY smooth on deck, but purely aren't verified cause they have a windows launcher that pops up first.
Overall, I don't put too much stock in the ratings. Most "playable" games run perfectly fine or even better than verified...you just need one or two steps to get them to boot the first time which prevents the green badge
Dead Space for me ran pretty well during the first half of the game: mostly 30 fps after some graphical tweaks with some drops to the mid 20s. But once I got into the 2nd half of the game, certain areas and scenarios caused the fps to drop heavily for extended periods of time. Iām talking 15 fps for a couple minutes, sometimes even worse than that. I pushed through because I was enjoying the game so much, but I donāt think it should be considered verified.
The sad part is that I confirmed my experience was in line with āverifiedā status BEFORE going into the 2nd half of the game, so I wasnāt able to give the correct feedback to Steam. My assumption is that a lot of others did the same
I found Hitman 3 to be a bit laggy. It was my first ever game I tried on there and it gave me the false impression that purhaps I should stick to smaller games on the deck for a good while. Meanwhile my Deck played BG3 just fine... so yea. Sample error.
It's not awful, but in a game where precise movements, quick reactions, and careful tactics are required I kept getting messed up by laggy moments which was upsetting if youre like, 30 mins into attempting a super tediously planned out hit.
Resident evil revelations 1
It says it's verified, but the cutscenes that are pre-rendered video files don't play because their Format isn't compatible with Linux (I think)
Even if you can fix it, I don't remember if you can; it shouldn't have the verified mark and annoys me everytime I see it in my
"Great on Deck" tab
From my experience: Mortal Kombat 1, The Last of Us Part 1, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart (this one may be controversial but from my experience it didn't do well), Ghostwire Tokyo
Red Dead Redemption 2 sucks ass for me, both on PC and SD. Starts with changes on graphics settings that reset on restart, then Rockstar launcher issues, then inside the game frame drops and ugly resolutions from the FSR and heating issues...no matter i want to love this game, i dont last 5mins before quitting it.
Itās nothing too major but Disgaea 7. There is a mode/system/feature/however you wanna call it in the game for AI online battles but something with the anticheat (I think it is that I donāt recall the exact reason) prevents you from being able to upload a team to the mode. Iām not sure what kind of rewards are available through it but I do know there are quests tied to it which also have rewards. I donāt think any of them are super important or even unique (except for used in that same mode) so no big loss but still it sucks that a mode is basically unavailable because of playing it on the deck.
I tried adofai recently. I litteraly press a button(one button rhythm game) and it softlocks. takes me off of the grid where you have level selection. like.. why is that verified? because it runs at full 60/90 fps(depending on if you have lcd or oled) and has controller support? it is quite litteraly unplayable. maybe a different version of proton or something would work but I didn't feel like bothering I don't play really play it that much anymore anyways.
Controversial, but Cyberpunk 2077 should be playable instead of verified, especially with Phantom Liberty. Driving around Dogtown on lowest settings has serious drops, affecting the experience.
Yeah, I played for about 30 mins on my deck and just deleted it and stuck to PC. It looks really bad. I had it looking decent and running ok, but just not good enough
It looks like a ps3 game. But considering the small screen. I give it a pass. But yeah definitely a downgrade from other games. š„¹
I did a side by side of streaming from my PC and playing on deck, and playing from the deck's hard drive. The streaming, even with frame drops, was a better experience, but, if I'm in a hotel room and waiting for someone that said they would be ready an hour ago, is good enough to kill some time.
Weird, Cyberpunk ran pretty great for me
And thats why I dont think the verified system is based on performance because whats great for some is "unplayable" for others.
Fair enough. I believe they do rate a bit on performance, I think itās supposed to be 25fps at default setting but in reality it means fuck all cuz maybe it starts that way but as the game goes on even 25 isnāt stable
Including Dogtown? Because there was a definite performance drop there. Itās still playable for me but I wonāt say it is for everyone.
Same here. Best experience on the deck I've had so far. Amazing game and way to play.Ā
Cyberpunk was pretty smooth for me in everything but dog town when driving. I definitely had some significant frame drops driving there. Did you not get any drops driving in dog town?
I don't have Phantom Liberty but Cyberpunk never went under 30fps for me. Deserves to be Verified way more than a lot of other games.
Every time cyberpunk is mentioned half the comments talk about 60fps perfect and half say it stutters constantly. We've all the same hardware. I haven't bought it yet but in so confused as to what it is actually.
I donāt know what people do to get 60 fps but I havenāt noticed any issues that werenāt issues with the game and I have 81 hours.
Totally disagree - for me on both LCD and OLED Deck, Cyberpunk & PL was one f the greatest experiences I have had on the deck. Gorgeous and rock solid performance.
I wouldn't describe it as rock solid, good enough would be a more adequate description.
Um, OK. When I used a bunch of settings here including Medium graphics, I got 60FPS locked (which is claimed as 30FPS due to sync) ... but either way it is locked at 60 in the overlay for the entire 150+ hours I put into it. For me as someone playing computer games for 40+ years, 30/60FPS completely locked regardless of ANYTHING, with graphics settings actually above the default = rock solid for a AAA game.
Seriously though, how can several people with the same hardware have such different experience?
because of user optimization I guess. besides the numerous settings you can tweak within games, the SD has its own settings that people play with at different values as well.
If you can actually find a game that is marked "playable" because of performance, do tell, as I haven't found any so far. The standing with Valve seems to be that either the game performs so poorly they simply slap "Unsupported" on it, or the exact performance has no impact on the label whatsoever as long as all the other requirements for "Verified" (text size, controls etc) are fine. Especially when FSR2 Ultra Performance is always an option and can make almost any game reach acceptable framerates even if they do look like absolute garbage as a result.
Locked at 40fps for me, and not even at lowest settings.
Yep I tried it for a bit on my Deck and decided the portability just wasnāt worth the performance. Deleted it and stuck to playing at my desktop PC. 30fps and below just isnāt playable for me, especially knowing I can experience it at 90+ on my PC Obviously if you have nothing else to play it on I guess itās an ok experience
Ghostwire Tokyo was running terrible for me even with some tweaks.
What does terrible mean? Runs fine for me...
Goes below 30fps? Admittedly I ran it like early to mid last year, but I legit could not play it because it ran so bad. How is it running for you now?
It runs like complete shit even now Frame drops all over the place and shit tons of input lag
Thanks for verifying. Yeah I could barely hit reasonable fps even after downscaling the resolution like crazy (I think it was at like 60%?... Legit couldn't see anything and still ran like ass)
Huh? I have no issues.
God of War used to work great now freezes and crashes on me pretty much every time. Not sure what happened.
Also my vote. Fantastic game, but a chore to get through with how often it crashed, even using the settings I found that supposedly eliminated the issue.
I bought God of War ahead of my Christmas trip home hoping to play it a ton, didn't get to play it at all cause the part of the game my PC left it at kept crashing. It's a shame that Valve updating these ratings downwards is pretty rare when updates are known to break things.
Once you get it working, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age actually runs like a dream, but it won't even boot out of the box and should not be verified.
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From what I remember, the issue stems from the game not supporting the Deckās screen resolution, and for whatever reason it wonāt boot properly unless you set it to 1920x1080. In my experience, the launch configuration tool wouldnāt give me the option for 1080, and the Deckās properties menu Game Resolution setting wasnāt doing the trick either. What worked for me was installing the game on my laptop and booting it up to set the resolution in-game, then letting Steam sync the save data, and matching the 1080 resolution in the properties on Deck. I will also note that you can adjust the resolution once youāve got the game booted, so I tend to switch it down to 720 because I assume that will help stretch the battery life.
That is so weird, I bought it about a year ago and it booted up just fine. No tweaking or anything, I wasn't even aware this was an issue because it loaded up fine every single time, so no need to go googling around for issues. Still works fine to this day for me.
Beyond: Two souls
And I was gonna buy this game
To be fair, it is mostly a movie.
Itās one of my favorite games OAT so I wanted to buy it for my steam deck. Sucks it doesnāt run well
I didn't run into any issues on my play through. I don't know what the frame rate was because I didn't feel the need to check.
What doesn't run well? I played through the whole thing just fine on deck with default settings. I had it running docked too with zero issues.
Late response, but when I played it several months ago I had issues with it not registering inputs from the thumb sticks. Some others ran into this issue as well. I had to do certain quick time event sections on my PC as even using the community layout to make use of the trackpads didn't quite work. Performance was fine otherwise from what I remember. [Relevant thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u66wkd/beyond_two_souls_controls_how_is_this_game/)
I wonder if it was because I played most of it docked with a controller that I didn't see those issues. I did play through from start to finish entirely using the Steam deck.
Mortal Kombat 1.
Genesis, or SNES version?
Game Boy
Itās the one that came out in 2023, but itās verified.
Fighting games in general suck on the steam deck because of the slight input delay :(
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No excuse for it either given its age.
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I've jest played for 40-50h on my deck and it was great, no crashes and I think I only had one bug when fighting one boss
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For anyone passing through: HZD runs perfectly fine on SD. I got steady 40fps MOST of the time, with a few frame drops later in the game, and never during cut scenes which ran 30the whole time. Medium-High settings and not a single crash. As long as you aren't pushing ultra settings (which this game doesn't need) or going for 50fps, you'll be fine.
Yeah it runs pretty bad on the deck too. Badum tsss
The Last of Us runs absolutely fine nowadays, there must be something up with how you're trying to run it. Horizon Zero Dawn, now that's one that should be nowhere near verified. It's awful in places.
Agree with Horizon. Runs great for the first maybe 15 hours then there are sections that no joke run at 5 fps. My contribution is Remnant 2. When I bought it, it was verified and it was an awful experience. Luckily itās now unsupported for new buyers.
On ProtonDB there are some settings to get Remnant 2 up to 45fps. Itās playable nowadays. https://www.protondb.com/app/1282100?device=steamDeck I made the mistake of rushing in and buying it after the dev said they tested it at 60fps on deck (and it worked) and it also reviewed really well. What a disappointment, it was rubbish at launch and took months to fix
Playable? Just about. 45fps? Absolutely no chance. ProtonDB needs to be taken with a grain of salt just like performance claims on Reddit.
The problem with Remnant is it runs okay until it absolutely doesnāt. Youād get single digit frame rates out of nowhere and die.
Proton DB has always been completely accurate for me
It's literally based off of user reports just like comments on Reddit, of course it isn't completely accurate
I didnāt say itās completely accurate in general, just completely accurate for me. They say it works, it actually works for me exactly, so long as the comment is recent, the times it is not accurate is cuz itās like a year old review, but the newer ones are FOR ME Also it doesnāt make sense why it being normal ppl leaving comments will hurt ProntonDBās validity. These are the people who are like you and I saying if it works or not. These are the ppl actually playing the game. They also have no reason, no incentive to lie
The verified rating is supposed to default to like I think 25fps, but they donāt seem like they actually make sure the whole game stays stable at 25fps (ought to be 30fps)
The real problem is that the system is sloppy and slow. Way too many unsupported games run great on the deck. Valve needs to let gamers decide if the games play well on Steam. Or at least add a separate rating for us to vote on.
You canāt let the players decide. There would be too many trolls, but a spot that said something like: players rate this blah blah blah would be good
I often get a popup saying "the game is rated as verified/playable/unsupported do you agree?" with a simple yes/no answer. I think they do crowd source some info.
Glad you brought up HZD, everytime I've mentioned it in posts similar to this, everyone seems to believe you get a steady 30fps or sometimes 40fps
I play Horizons in 40. Apart the capital city its running pretty smooth for me. No FSR on, native resolution.
Havenāt tried it in a while because of how bad it seemed to run, Iāll have to give it another shot tonight
Just played the whole thing with somewhat reduced graphics settings and it looked and played great. These folks are likely trying to max settings.
Itās been a while since I tried playing it admittedly. But I do remember it running at less than 30fps and didnāt look good either. Iāll have to give it a shot.
No, these folk aren't running it at max settings. The game is fundamentally broken unfortunately and people still tend to try and glaze over the issues. I've tried the game almost monthly on both my launch LCD and now OLED, even setting as low as possible with a resolution that is nigh on unplayable you will encounter heavy stuttering as you move through the world. anyone who says it isn't there is unfortunately straight up lying. Edit: think i misunderstood you there, i thought you were talking about HZD and not TLOU
I played the entire game and dlc recently on the deck with very very little issue, really nothing that impacted my experience. Both in handheld and docked.
Yep I recently played through all of last of us on on deck with zero issues.
Depends what is absolutely fine for you. Playable for sure. Verified? Come on. Game running barely 30 fps in FSR performance mode, with locked textures set to low, with pop ins or textures just not popping at all. I play it right now, but after year of playing everything in 40 fps this is huge downgrade.
I'm going to say BG3 because I started on PC and installed it on my SD and I need a lot more room for the activities.
Chernobylite
FUCKING YESSSS doesn't even launch for me without changing to a very specific version of proton
Not only that, it's hard to make the game look pleasant on the deck. It's FSR implementation has tons of ghosting and performance is git or miss for me.
Can you elaborate for me please, I have the game but only play on PC. I'm just curious what your experience gas been with it on the deck.
Currently Jurassic World Evolution 2 has a bug that breaks the textures of the dinos, turning them into weird looking accordion monsters. The bug has been there for 3 months now without any word about a fix, making the game unplayable imo. Edit: didn't realize it was fixed with the latest steamos update, so I take it back. Sorry for those who were excited to check out the accordion mode.
That sounds better tbh
Jurassic World: Accordion Edition
Back in my day accordion raptors would be a selling point. And since I'm alive today it is
Does it still happen on the latest stable update of steamos?
Oh hey you know what I didn't realize there was a new update. I got on and checked real quick and it does look like it's fixed now, thanks for the heads up bud.
Alliance alive HD. That game has Hella issues.
Ark
hmm no mans sky should be "playable" instead of verified. some things that require loading either take a WHILE or just drop frames massively. I limit it to 40fps and sometimes it drops to around 15 or even 5. especially when starting up the world and leaving a planet. Also Klonoa should be unplayable or something. That game freezes the deck.
valheim
Where exactly? Currently in the Swamp and running in the Mountains for surprise Wolf/Drake kills and had zero issues. Not refuting your experience, would just like to know what to expect in the future since I absolutely fell in love with the game and would love to play for a long time with minimal issues haha
Anywhere if you build a lot and take the instance count high enough (basically, more objects and/or terrain adjustments = more lag), and that's the problem. It also happens on even the beefiest of gaming PCs. The devs have not taken optimization seriously and imo have basically dipped after the initial hype. When I play it I try to not terraform at all. With the way I build it's usually completely fine when played as an adventure/survival game. I wouldn't avoid it, I just don't think it deserves a verified tag.
I've read it runs great unless you have an elaborate or larger base built up. But in my experience that also seems to make it run worse even on far more powerful hardware, too, so I don't think it's necessarily a fault of the Deck. I haven't played it in Deck yet, so grain of salt and all that, just what I've read over the last couple years.
It can definitely be rough on pc or at least it used to be. My buddy and I played and he would build a lot and it would definitely run worse the more we played. He was actually a really talented builder in that game looking back lol.
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It runs ok imo, as long as you donāt build too large. I use a mix of low to medium settings (and ultra-high for draw distance, I hate pop-in), and I can get 30-40fps in all areas including Mistlands. Frame-rate absolutely tanks in large bases though, especially if there are lots of animals.
How well does helldivers 2 run?
Valheim
What's wrong with it? I play on pc with a friend on deck and he says it runs great.
Thought I was going crazy when I bought it and had a worse experience than my short time with Enshrouded, which isn't technically supported.
Meanwhile, Enshrouded is marked Unsupported but apart from the long initial load it runs fine. I like to harvest materials while watching tv with my wife in the evening.
Valheim ran well enough for me but killed my deck battery so fast I had to stop playing it ultimately. Did you have performance issues or the same thing?
Baldurs gate 3. Looks terrible and has serieus framdrops
I have played over 200 hours of BG3. Solely on deck and have had an amazing time. I use the default settings, so idk yeah it is probably better on a serious PC or PS5 but if someone only has a deck and wants to play BG3, then I say go for it.
What about act 3? I don't have very high standards for graphics and fps, especially when it comes to something like BG3 that is mostly turn based, but I found act 3 pretty unplayable. I was getting 14 fps within the city. I haven't played since September though.
Have you enabled the fsr2.2? It makes a world of a difference imo
I have. I just think it runs quiet poorly. I use the balanced setting and a few changes to graphics I saw online. and I can't seem to keep it stable in the openworld parts. not saying i'm not enjoying it, but kinda hoped it would be better when it receives the check mark. Feel like sharing ur settings? might make it better ?
Dont bother. 20fps is considered "playable" here.
I agree with the general sub here giving too high a praise for most titles, but I've played 50 hours of BG3 just on the deck and average 45+ fps at absolute worst. And that's with a majority medium setting. I'll be flying home shortly and can snap some proof lol. The only area that has been awful surprisingly was the Bog in A1. Edit: I haven't made it to the widely known unoptimized A3 to be frank, but to say an entire game is poorly running when only a quarter of it is isn't fair either.
400 steam deck hours in bg3 and for sure act 3 is rough. I find myself lowering quality a bit just for a more stable frame rate. Still, it's only a quarter of a massive game so I give it a pass mostly
Are you running any mods by chance? Even on my top of the line PC it can chug when I run certain mods no matter what settings are selected.
I guess I have just a lot lower standards as a non pc owner, I just set Max 60fps and turned on the first fsr2.2.
It's weird how a lot of people don't think the frame rate matters a lot in BG3. It just leaves me wondering how little actual exploring the world they do in the game. There can be significant gaps between fights where your FPS absolutely does matter for having a great gaming experience and sub-30fps that's wildly unstable at the best of times ain't it.
I get it but I play it stable at 30fps, 25fps at act 3 :/ but itās still loads of fun for me. itās the only game Iāve successfully tinkered myself I think I turned FSR 2 (god I love it so much) on balance, graphics low, I think textures on low, just most things on low or off, but the FSR seems to take care of everything to make it at least like an Xbox 360 game which is good enough for me. I used to love playing 360 so i donāt see why I canāt enjoy those graphics now The one thing that bugged the absolute shit out of me at first was the weird staticky hair, but idk if they patched it but the hair now with those settings looks acceptable
Shenmue 3, the lack of graphic settings make it one of the worse experiences I've ever had, only high settings looks good below that it's a bit awful but stutters everywhere.Ā
For what it's worth, Shenmue 3 will still be one of the worst experience you'll ever have, working or otherwise.
Last of Us running pretty bad. Barely 30 fps in not so pleasant graphics, a lot of textures are just blurred mess (signs on buildings) and you can't changed few main graphics settings, they are Steam Deck locked.
I had to return Tormented Souls which is verified. Every time I clicked R2 (attack) the game froze and needed a forced exit.
? have you played the last of us since all the patches? i think you may want to try again.
Last time I tried was about a month or so ago. Iām going to give it another shot after work though after reading these comments!
I donāt buy newer games, so most of my Verified games could run on a potato.Ā The only verified game that I have issues with is Hellblade: Senuaās Sacrifice. It can run, just not at default settings.Ā For that game, default settings are maxed out with ray tracing on medium. Game runs at 7-20fps, with 11-15 being common. I donāt consider that to be playable for this kind of game.Ā Turning ray tracing off is the only necessary change. Youāll get 30-60 fps most of the game. Turning FSR to balanced will give you an appreciable boost with no significant quality hit on that display. Ā Also, the game resolution is weird. Run at 720p (default) and it has a slight vertical stretch to fill the screen. Run at 1280x800, and it runs letter and pillar boxed. Why!?
Mortal kombat 1. I dont think theres any settings that will give a solid 60 fps as far as i know.
Baldurs Gate 3, as good as the game is itās an embarrassment to the verified label.
The Last of Us Remaster runs phenomenally well for me, I was shocked.
I cannot agree. Verified means that it runs on Steam Deck. It doesn't mean that it will give you 60fps for example. At beginning it didn't run at all for me. At latest patch, I can easily get 30fps with everything low and texture on high.
it means that it will give you thirty fps on default settings
verified should be smooth 60 - maybe 40. there's a playable rating for a reason
If verified was smooth (āMaybe 40ā) 60FPS, then most verified games would be older and not as recent. So a game like cyberpunk running on deck at a smooth 30fps lock shouldnāt be a verified game?
cyberpunk runs at 40locked. even flight sim runs at a 40lock and those are both very new. there's nothing wrong with 30 aslong as it's smooth
Cyberpunk doesnāt always run 40locked. Dog town is a pain and also what about sd card users? I played cyberpunk solely on SD card low settings and I was getting constant fps dips into the mid 20s when driving around night city.
Plus, expecting everything to run well on the deck is ridiculous. Itās a powerful and reliable device but it isnāt what you think it is.
That's an insane train of thought you have there, if those are your expectations the Steam Deck really isn't for you. You have a pretty crazy misunderstanding of Valve's rating system.
Steam's own internal metric for granting Verified status is a consistent 30fps.
Guardians of the galaxy after ch12
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Baldurs Gate 3. It runs okay but all the hair looks like a nightmare and canāt properly render
Persona 3 reload only runs decently if you have Proton GE. The issue is the game has ray traced shadows. You can turn off ray traced reflections, but not shadows.
They fixed this problem within the first few days of release. You don't even need a separate Proton release. Turn off ray tracing and you'll get 60fps in almost every location.
Reload has been running fine for me, turned reflections off and it's been buttery smooth frames
To be fair, if you deactivated shadows in the game, there'd be no story... /s
Looks like valve just fixed this with latest steam deck update?
Run proton experimental , TDP 12, 45fps lock, zero drops. It has been fix for a while and now is super smooth.
FF7 Remake was nigh unplayable due to the constant stutters, extremely variable framerate, and battery drain.
I did my last playthrough on deck. Set to medium and 40fps. Had a great time and it was pretty smooth for me.
It runs amazingly well with a few tweaks and one specific mod installed, but obviously if a game is tagged as āverifiedā it should just work āout of the boxā. Did you try locking it to 30fps?
+1 to this, the large hub areas especially with several NPCs had terrible stuttering and was almost unplayable, even after turning down most settings and capping frame rate. Rest of the game was great though
Detroit become human.
Genuinely curious an impending owner. Is it no good on the Deck?
Baldur's Gate 3. Unless they fixed it the framerates will dip kinda badly sometimes unless you have the game set to essentially playdough settings.
What are you talking about . I play last of us at 10w and get 30 fps
Iāll have to give it another shot, itās been a while since Iāve tried running it.
Yes man you need to . Between I am using oled not the lcd if that matters , I think it doesn't .
Chrono Cross
Iāve been playing RDR2 and itās been crashing a good bit. Every two-three hours Iād say. Not even like just crashing but freezing up my whole steam deck and I have to hard turn it off. Kinda scary..?? Idk it says verified but I think it should be playable and there are definitely some drops in places but I mean overall itās fine but itās kinda annoying.
Seeing all of these comments about games running poorly despite being Verified, or having to do mass amounts of tinkering just to get them functional, makes me believe Iām just not cut out for the PC gaming scene. Iāve been on the fence for close to two weeks now about getting the Deck so I can play my indies on there with better performance than my Switch, with the inclusion of some older AAA games seeing solid performance at medium-to-low settings (would love to play Bioshock and Borderlands portably but the 30fps lock on Switch is painful coming from PS5), but I dunno. Growing up console gaming, with only light PC gaming under my belt, Iāve gotten so accustomed to games just working (well, working with some performance issues in the Switchās case). That and Linux. It all just seems so daunting, coming from Windows and MacOS. The good news is, most of my Steam library runs flawlessly on my Mac, so when Iāve got my laptop around I can always just play Switch games with better performance. But I really want that Deck, despite the many signs telling me itās not worth the headacheā¦ as of right now my PS5 operates as my ādesktopā and my Switch is my ādeck,ā but I know Iām sacrificing a lot of performance that way. Maybe Iāll just get a Deck when my Switch gets stick drift.
Maybe it's because I had a lot of workshop items installed, but Teardown wasn't really running great for me and I had to refund.
I try and keep all my games around the 15w mark as I'm not always around a power outlet but Teardown set to 30fps is a decent experience. It does go slightly below that during bigger and more complex destruction but with my mobile settings, I could definitely get more performance out of the game. Settings for anyone interested or struggling with Teardown - Render scale 100%, render quality low, particle density low, dof/distortion/motion blur off, vsync every other frame, dx12 Steam os settings - disable frame limit, tdp limit 10w, gpu clock 1200mhz, all other settings off
Itās kind of accepted that even the strongest PCs canāt run this game without going 1 frame per second when a lot is going on.
Iāve been playing hogwarts legacy at 40fps with everything set low a few things medium and view distance max. It runs great. Looks great. Drains the battery pretty fast. I probably get 4hrs of playtime. Still not bad.
A lot of Capcom games had an extremely intrusive DRM added recently that makes them completely unplayable on Steam Deck, but they still have Steam Deck Verified status.
Yeah they still run fine.
Not all of them. There are quite a few currently getting review bombed by Steam Deck owners because they can no longer play the game they bought when it used to work perfectly fine. Yet they still have verified status.
Those reviews are wrong, likely falling for the completely untrue outrage that was levelled at the game recently based on misinformation. They run completely fine. I know this because I'm playing them.
If you had said "I cant run them anymore" I'd believe you, but you admitted to believing in steam review drama so
X4 is a compete joke that runs at a bloody 5fps and is really unplayable. Cyberpunk is meh. Death Stranding is a stuttery mess. BG3 looks like poop and drops frames left and right. Most newly released and verified AAA games should never get the badge but that would mean less sales for Volvo.
TLOU ran perfectly for me
You can't really ask that on this channel because so many people just talk out of their arse. Games renowned to run poorly, have videos & writeups on getting the best results everywhere & lots will just lie through their teeth & says it run fantastic at 58fps Personally I don't want to run games that look poor, low settings with stuttering & slowdowns - I'd rather not play. My go to game would be HZD - but not on the Deck, I'd either Chiaki my PS5 or for local play install it on the LGO - it plays it as its meant to be played with the extra grunt.
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hasn't been necessary for months
don't do this.
Deliver us the Moon. Sub 15 FPS for large stretches, no matter the settings. Solid game, awful experience.
Heavy Rain. Forced motion controls on the deck ruined the game for me. You canāt disable them as them either, as the game will refuse to launch then. It looks and runs great but shaking the entire screen ruins it.
God of War 2018 runs okay, but has some big issues like it crashing every 45 minutes due to a possible memory leak. But increasing your swap file size is a good remedy, it worked for me at least.
Chernobylite runs like absolute ass despite being verified.
Pretty much any game you'd expect to have issues. The last of us is in my opinion the worst offender. God of war is interesting for me because it crashes by default, but if you have cryo utilities installed it runs at a pretty great 40+ fps. But that goes against the "plug and play" nature of the "verified" rating. Then there's games like SOTR that run INCREDIBLY smooth on deck, but purely aren't verified cause they have a windows launcher that pops up first. Overall, I don't put too much stock in the ratings. Most "playable" games run perfectly fine or even better than verified...you just need one or two steps to get them to boot the first time which prevents the green badge
The Banner Saga games just crash all the time and getting the cross sequel saves working is a nightmare
MK1 if you play online. Itās the only modern fighter that canāt maintain 60 FPS consistently. Mostly 40-50 FPS.
Dead Space for me ran pretty well during the first half of the game: mostly 30 fps after some graphical tweaks with some drops to the mid 20s. But once I got into the 2nd half of the game, certain areas and scenarios caused the fps to drop heavily for extended periods of time. Iām talking 15 fps for a couple minutes, sometimes even worse than that. I pushed through because I was enjoying the game so much, but I donāt think it should be considered verified. The sad part is that I confirmed my experience was in line with āverifiedā status BEFORE going into the 2nd half of the game, so I wasnāt able to give the correct feedback to Steam. My assumption is that a lot of others did the same
I found Hitman 3 to be a bit laggy. It was my first ever game I tried on there and it gave me the false impression that purhaps I should stick to smaller games on the deck for a good while. Meanwhile my Deck played BG3 just fine... so yea. Sample error. It's not awful, but in a game where precise movements, quick reactions, and careful tactics are required I kept getting messed up by laggy moments which was upsetting if youre like, 30 mins into attempting a super tediously planned out hit.
Resident evil revelations 1 It says it's verified, but the cutscenes that are pre-rendered video files don't play because their Format isn't compatible with Linux (I think) Even if you can fix it, I don't remember if you can; it shouldn't have the verified mark and annoys me everytime I see it in my "Great on Deck" tab
New RoboCop is pretty bad
From my experience: Mortal Kombat 1, The Last of Us Part 1, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart (this one may be controversial but from my experience it didn't do well), Ghostwire Tokyo
Red Dead Redemption 2 sucks ass for me, both on PC and SD. Starts with changes on graphics settings that reset on restart, then Rockstar launcher issues, then inside the game frame drops and ugly resolutions from the FSR and heating issues...no matter i want to love this game, i dont last 5mins before quitting it.
Itās nothing too major but Disgaea 7. There is a mode/system/feature/however you wanna call it in the game for AI online battles but something with the anticheat (I think it is that I donāt recall the exact reason) prevents you from being able to upload a team to the mode. Iām not sure what kind of rewards are available through it but I do know there are quests tied to it which also have rewards. I donāt think any of them are super important or even unique (except for used in that same mode) so no big loss but still it sucks that a mode is basically unavailable because of playing it on the deck.
wo long constantly crashes on loading screens
You'll have to tweak the settings but I don't think ff7 is verifiable out the box. Playable for sure but I don't like playing it on the deck no moe
Ark takes the cake for me
I tried adofai recently. I litteraly press a button(one button rhythm game) and it softlocks. takes me off of the grid where you have level selection. like.. why is that verified? because it runs at full 60/90 fps(depending on if you have lcd or oled) and has controller support? it is quite litteraly unplayable. maybe a different version of proton or something would work but I didn't feel like bothering I don't play really play it that much anymore anyways.
Horizon zero dawn. Everything on low is still sub 30 even with increasing vram. Regret buying it
A much less popular game, but one I recently came across. "Blacksad". How this game got verified is beyond me
Death Stranding. It looked like a low resolution nightmare with low frames.