How well does the SD card option work? Does installing on an SD card affect performance? Do you need a specific type of SD card?

Im mainly playing point and click. No problems on this side, but... you know...

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According to Voron00 above, they still get a slightly higher FPS using Proton.

... on Nvidia. So, not SteamDeck, which they optimized for.

Somebody to measure act 3 on Steam Deck, native vs. proton?

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On nvidia use __GL_13ebad=0x1 it fixed low fps for me:

Thanks for sharing! Which card is it?

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Why do developers even bother with Native Linux when Proton exists and is a lot more stable ? This was a total waste of time.

Feel free to read the article...

"The story of how this came to be really is one of true passion. The Steam Deck native build was initiated by a single engineer who really wanted a smoother version of the game on Steam Deck and so he started working on it after hours. When we tried it out, we were all surprised by how good it felt and so it didn't take much to convince us to put our shoulders behind it and get it released. It's this type of pure passion for their craft that makes me fall in love with my developers over and over again. Considering myself very lucky to have people like him on my team. Try it out!"

... or another gamer's experiences with running the game with Proton up this thread...

BG3 was one of those games I thought didn't deserve to have a Deck Verified badge applied to it due to the fact that the 3rd act isn't actually playable at all on the Deck.

@Stella
Did you play Act 3 on Deck with Proton?
And, did you try to disable Mangohud to run it natively?

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Found this in the bug report comments...

At this point, and I'm aware this isn't the forum for such conversations, I'd pin the blame on management guidance, not the dev team; the build works just fine on Desktop.

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With how big games are getting nowadays (I've seen 100+ GB), with 256 GB you'll run into storage limits real quick. I have a 512 GB Deck and I've had to do some juggling.

I just pimped my 64 GB model with an SD card.

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A "native Linux" label doesn't automatically mean fewer layers or better longevity. Unity's Linux export targets Vulkan/OpenGL and uses SDL2, but the core engine is proprietary.

Something seems to be missing here...
Unity's Windows support targets DirectX (I guess), which by Proton is translated to Vulkan/OpenGL. So yes, for Unity exports, which you seem to be talking about, native Linux does mean fewer layers.

Many of us still equate "native Linux" with fewer dependencies and better long-term stability. In reality, both paths are layered. The difference is who maintains those layers and how quickly fixes propagate when things break.

Who maintains the .exe format or the DirectX Interface? Ah...

We assume native equals independence.

Never heard that. I assume native support means native support.

Unity’s open-source dependencies are compiled and linked together with Unity’s proprietary engine code. Many issues can’t be fixed by the community. You'd need changes inside the closed Unity runtime or the game project itself.

It was possible for the Unity problem I'm actually aware of though, a strange interaction between a 10 year old Unity weakness and Steam using CEF in a certain way 10 years later.
(Good luck btw for getting a bug fixed for a Windows version of a ten years old game...)

https://ein-eike.de/2025/06/05/fix-for-old-unity-games-for-linux-not-starting-anymore/ [External Link]

So here’s the question: For closed-source commercial titles (not community-maintained OSS like 0 A.D.), what concrete benefits does a (proprietary) "native Linux" build deliver that outweigh Proton's faster fixes, wider hardware coverage, and transparent maintenance?

For the vast majority of my Linux native games, I don't need fixes, have never had a problem with hardware coverage and have the most transparent OS-to-OS translation layer possible: none. So, I don't see all the greatness you want to have outweighed in the first place.

What do you get by having a native version: Your system is supported, which seems to mean nothing for you, but much for me. And you are entitled to support by the developers. We lately had a case in the Steam forums again where somebody was told that the devs don't care that their game stopped working with Proton, they only care about Windows.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/601915789280286287/ [External Link]

(Yes, there's bad support for Linux version as well sometimes. And for Windows versions used on Windows.)

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@Cyril, "not wanting to get bullied", tends to be a pretty solid reason to do something.

Not wanting to be bullied is a solid reason to do what the bullies want you to do?
Hm.
Will this make the person happy?
Will it make the person feel free?
Will it at least stop the bullying?
I'm my experience, they'll find something else.
Because bullying is not actually about what you're doing or wearing.

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Non-collectible hats! :wub:

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like tabs on top, where one needs to use extensions or make manual modifications that often break on version update. Let's see which way this will go...

I got so much no idea why they've done this. I mean, the tab "heading" obviously has such a close relationship to the tab contents - and none to the search bar, the favorites, ...

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