As I speculated previously when Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 went into Preview, Valve has now released it as a Stable update for all Steam Deck owners for Starfield.
When the update launched into Preview, Valve only noted the GPU fix was for "an upcoming game". Now Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 is Stable with the changelog noted as:
- Fixed a GPU driver crash with Starfield
- Fixed hangs on reboot when switching from upcoming Beta OS releases.
I will have a very rough quick first-look as soon as Starfield is installed and ready on my Steam Deck. Stay tuned on that one (follow on YouTube), I'm not expecting performance to be particularly good though for now. As we've seen with many AAA launches, they generally work better (and in many cases fully Steam Deck Verified) a few weeks after release.
Nice to see Valve get ahead of this one though, good to see such prompt updates for the Steam Deck!
Pictured - Starfield
For players who pre-purchased the special deluxe edition, early access for Starfield has now begun, with the full release on September 6th.
Update: Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned:
There is a known issue with Starfield where the initial window waits on a black screen. You can tap it with the touchscreen to progress past it, and we are releasing another OS update with a fix within the next hour.
Update #2: Steam Deck OS 3.4.10 has rolled out for the extra fix "where Starfield could become stuck on a black screen while launching, waiting for touchscreen interaction."
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: SuperTuxUnfortunately it has many issues with the Nvidia Linux driver, that's probably going to take awhile to fix...
shuda waited
Last edited by Lofty on 1 September 2023 at 5:16 pm UTC
Quoting: LoftyQuoting: SuperTuxUnfortunately it has many issues with the Nvidia Linux driver, that's probably going to take awhile to fix...
shuda waited
unfortunately I have to now use Windows, bleh. I noticed ads started popping up lmao. I only use it for flightsims as I need trackir and that's tricky with Proton/Wine, and also as a backup.
preludelinux Sep 1, 2023
Quoting: SuperTuxQuoting: LoftyQuoting: SuperTuxUnfortunately it has many issues with the Nvidia Linux driver, that's probably going to take awhile to fix...
shuda waited
the ads thing is insane. its like you have to buy a more expensive amazon tablet just to allow them to NOT force ads on you and they are perfectly okay with that, like its a privilege to not have ads, but the peasants get ads, proving ads are a basically an economic punishment of sorts.
Last edited by Lofty on 1 September 2023 at 5:48 pm UTC
Quoting: preludelinuxon desktop seems so far to be working great playing at 4k not noticing slowdowns seems perfect so far
Running an AMD graphics card?
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7064
Nvidia is the one with the most issues, which seems to be down to an Nvidia driver bugs:
Currently have to downgrade the drivers to get past it past freezing, to only encounter another issue caused by Nvidia:
"Performance on NV currently is known to be extremely poor due to being completely CPU bound. This is caused by lack of us enabling NV_device_generated_compute on NV due to a driver bug. #1639 for details. When the beta driver updates, it should start running much better."
Quoting: SuperTuxQuoting: preludelinuxon desktop seems so far to be working great playing at 4k not noticing slowdowns seems perfect so far
Running an AMD graphics card?
Click "View PC info" under their avatar. :)
Quoting: tuubiQuoting: SuperTuxQuoting: preludelinuxon desktop seems so far to be working great playing at 4k not noticing slowdowns seems perfect so far
Running an AMD graphics card?
Click "View PC info" under their avatar. :)
Thank you :)
Anyway,
I Preloaded the game last night and today after work the game launched flawlessly. Game launched with proton experimental and kernel 6.5.0.1.
Only played for an hour so far but getting an average 110fps at 4k and game butter smooth. I am surprisingly enjoying the game. I am also impressed the game is running on steam deck though.
TheRiddick Sep 2, 2023
No issues with the AMD card yet. Honestly NVIDIA is just TERRIBLE for driver support this year, of cause not all cards suffer these issues.
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