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Baldur's Gate 3 is now Steam Deck Verified
7 Aug 2023 at 6:25 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: soulsource
Quoting: GuestI have had so many mechanical, UI, quest, and dialogue bugs
This. As much as I love the game, the bugs are extremely annoying. One really has to save every few minutes, just so one can reload if one runs into a game-breaking issue...
Huh, the only bugs I've ran into so far with 6-ish hours of play, is graphical black boxes that kept appearing (this is on my desktop with 7900 XT).

Granted, I lost an hour-ish of play because I ran into a room where a bunch of traps blew me up... and hadn't saved, since newer games tend to autosave every five steps... I need to get back into the habit of saving all the time again.
I had two story bugs in 6 hours of gameplay. One was something minor in the Overgrown Ruins, where the dialogue with the locked book bugged out. The other was more annoying and quite weird, at the trap where one finds Lae'zel again, after the nautiloid crash. I chose to shoot the cage down, and immediately after that I talked to Lae'zel and sent her to the camp.
The Tieflings were still friendly, so I talked to them again, what caused Lae'zel to float mid-air, where the cage had previously been, acting like I never freed her. Next time I went to the camp she was there, but hostile. Seems she didn't like that I left her in the cage, even though she very clearly was at my camp, where i sent her, after I freed her...

Baldur's Gate 3 is now Steam Deck Verified
7 Aug 2023 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI have had so many mechanical, UI, quest, and dialogue bugs
This. As much as I love the game, the bugs are extremely annoying. One really has to save every few minutes, just so one can reload if one runs into a game-breaking issue...

Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam Deck is 'absolutely wild' and aims for 30FPS on Medium
3 Aug 2023 at 10:15 pm UTC

Quoting: kaiman
Quoting: soulsourceBe as it may, I might buy the game today and try it myself. If it doesn't work with good performance on my AMD GPU I'm going to be sad.
I've bought it on GOG and both the Vulkan and DX11 versions are running fine on my RX 6600. The only thing I did was setting a custom executable instead of the launcher. Played a bit with both versions but didn't spot major differences.

The only bad thing I noticed so far is that it will not work unless Galaxy is also running. Kinda defeats the purpose of buying from GOG in the first place.
I got the Steam version, but didn't really play yet. However, as far as I tried it (the character creation menu), it's running fine on my Rx 6700 XT. The only things I needed to do to get it to launch was to switch to Proton Experimental, and to disable the launcher (to be honest, I don't know if disabling the launcher is necessary, I just hate launchers).

The 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard looks awesome
3 Aug 2023 at 6:15 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Bumadar
Quoting: soulsourceNot even a numpad? That doesn't make me optimistic about the quality of the device...
I did my best to see the connection between no numpad and quality and I can't, so please enlighten me.
There are literally keys missing. They obviously forgot to mount those. They didn't even bother to assemble it completely!

(If that isn't clear, I am joking, and was joking when I wrote that other comment. Maybe I should stop. Seems I'm not good at it.)

Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam Deck is 'absolutely wild' and aims for 30FPS on Medium
3 Aug 2023 at 1:51 pm UTC

Quoting: williamjcm
Quoting: soulsourceHmm, I can't confirm without the game, but there are reports [External Link] that look like Vulkan on AMD is working.
It might have worked at some point, but clearly not anymore.

Also, the first report I saw when I clicked that link you posted said the Vulkan renderer did crash their Steam Deck when trying to load the main menu, which was also my experience when I tried it yesterday on my own handheld, and the average RADV experience.

AMDVLK, the official Linux driver, crashes more "gracefully" (the game displays an error message instead of crashing the entire driver) during the Larian video before the main menu.
The issue with the link seems to be an issue of the protondb website. If you go to the address bar and press return there once the site finished loading, the anchor works.
Here is a screenshot of the report I wanted to link.


Be as it may, I might buy the game today and try it myself. If it doesn't work with good performance on my AMD GPU I'm going to be sad.

The 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard looks awesome
3 Aug 2023 at 10:44 am UTC Likes: 1

Not even a numpad? That doesn't make me optimistic about the quality of the device...

Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam Deck is 'absolutely wild' and aims for 30FPS on Medium
1 Aug 2023 at 2:38 pm UTC

Quoting: officernice
Quoting: williamjcmA shame the current version of the game doesn't run on AMD GPUs on Linux (except Steam Deck, it seems) if you select the Vulkan renderer, no matter if you use AMDVLK or RADV drivers.

The D3D11 renderer does work, but vegetation has some nasty flickering.

I really hope it'll be fixed for the game's launch.
Aww that sucks. I have to build a new PC to run this game, and I am definitely going to run full AMD.
Hmm, I can't confirm without the game, but there are reports [External Link] that look like Vulkan on AMD is working.

Combat-free RPG set in an occult library BOOK OF HOURS launches August 17th
27 Jul 2023 at 9:18 pm UTC

Oooh, that looks quite similar to Cultist Simulator, gameplay-wise.
What means, it's probably going to be great.

Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Pathfinder and more in this bundle
26 Jul 2023 at 9:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is quite good. Not as awesome as the first one, but good nonetheless.

Steam Beta improves Openbox support and fixes focus issues with AMD / Intel
6 Jul 2023 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

focus stealing when a steam window is closed
I hope this includes the focus issue that Steam notifications (for instance if a friend is launching a game) steal focus temporarily.