Dave the Diver. It’s not only the perfect Steam Deck game, it’s contender for indie game of the year. There’s just so much content and it’s all so good!
I can’t wait to dive into this.
Heh.
It’s crazy how fun this game is in short bursts but it’s also scarily packed with content. I love the little animation cutscenes that they have for bancho and when fulfilling the customer requests.
Been using Yuzu to emulate Tears of The Kingdom. Works so well for the handheld platform.
(For legal reasons this is definitely not actually true please don’t sue me daddy Nintendo)
How’d you get it running smoothly? Mods? Even in Yuzu EA, the base TOTK game is slow.
It took a lot of tinkering, ngl. So far, I’ve gotten it to run at a pretty consistent 30fps with a bit of slowdown when going into areas for the first time due to shader compilation. Of course, big towns and such shows a bit of a slowdown as well, but nothing game breaking. I’m about a third or more through the main story all played on the Deck. Here’s a list of things I’ve done to get it playable:
- Installed Yuzu via EmuDeck. For whatever reason, I couldn’t even launch the game using the standard flatpak version/package version.
- Dynamic 30fps Patch. I tried the 60fps version, but since the game never gets much above 30, I went with the 30fps version since it was noticeably smoother.
- Ran CryoUtilities and let it do its optimizations (increasing vram actually makes the game run worse due to there being less ram. This game/emulator is very memory hungry it seems so skip that one.)
- I use the PowerTools plugin from Decky to set the hardware scheduler to performance mode. I’ve also played around with increasing minimum CPU clock speeds, but I can’t seem to make a difference with those. There were some rumors about disabling the “Odd Number” core option that helped performance,
but I didn’t notice a difference with the current EA build of Yuzu.that turned out to be true. - Using the normal Power Options, force the GPU clock speed to max (1600).
- Running EA Yuzu in Vulkan mode I’m not sure if this makes a difference, but I sourced the game from a specific girl who claims to be fit and likes to repackage things.
A quick note : I’m also running Release 1.0 since whenever I try to upgrade to 1.1, I get an infinite black loading screen. I think this has to do with where I got the 1.0 release from, but I’m not sure. Supposedly, 1.1 has some bug fixes and performance fixes as well, but I’m too far into the game to worry about getting it working at this point.
All of this is purely hypothetical, though, obviously.
Wow thank you for the detailed response!
Tears of the kingdom! emulation has been making strides recently
Is there a tutorial you can recommend? Not long after it came out I managed to get it running, but only in desktop mode, and input wasn’t working at all.
You could try steam rom manager. It allows you to add your roms and/or emulators to your steam list from one app. It comes with emudeck but I think you can get it separately if you don’t want to use the rest of emudeck features.
you will need to add Yuzu as a non steam game in desktop mode then you can find it in game mode on that tab. before launching any games at least for me I have to use the touchscreen to launch them at first.
As for input, check the controller settings then go to controller layouts and the community tab, some people have made layouts for it. you might have to experiment with different ones a bit till you find one you like though.
Been wanting to try it but can’t find a rom. I own the game btw.
It has gotten so much better in the last few weeks. Nearly 30fps stable, far fewer crashes. Very enjoyable!
Lol even the switch can do better than that
Doesn’t the switch dynamically downscale the resolution though? I thought that was how they kept it at 30 on the switch.
Dave the Diver…
Absolutely! Have been really wanting something to follow up my Dredge addiction this past winter, and this seems perfect. Love how there’s constantly new stuff happening. The core gameplay loop is perfectly sound as well.
Just finished Doom 2016. Really fun and also to train gyro aiming. Started Wolfenstein new order, but I’m kinda not hooked, probably because gameplay is slower then Doom. Got Dandy Ace in the sale, may just play that for a while.
Also finished Cult of the lamb and tomb raider earlier.
Itching to get diablo 4, but then I won’t play anything else and I still have many games I want to try/finish.
Going to move onto doom 2016 once I’ve finished bully
One thing I’m worried about is how exhausting the game can be… I’ve played a mission or two and after the mission I’m left drained with hesitation of starting the next mission lol… such an intense game
Anyway, hope to have some fun with it once I get onto it
Gyro aiming is awesome once you get used to it. I don’t always keep it on, but I definitely play better when it is on.
My aging hands can’t support the weight of the deck with gyro aiming on during long periods of play. Or if they can, I’ll still feel it later.
I think gyro aiming with a gamepad is perfect though. Doom on the Switch was very fun because of that.
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Death Stranding
- Diablo 2: Resurrected
- Stardew Valley
- No Mans Sky
So far any of those games perform really well. Especially RDR2 is nice to play. The visuals of that game are stunning, but then again Death Stranding is nothing to sneeze at, too
deleted by creator
Just finished South Park Stick of Truth, now moving on to Fracture but Whole. They play really well on the deck and had them in my backlog.
Also just picked up Dave the Diver, so looking forward to give that a spin.
Diablo IV on my Gaben Boy.
Diablo 2 Resurrected
Dead Cells
Dragons Dogma
Grim Dawn
Vampire Survivors
How’s Grim Dawn with controller?
Great. It has native support, only the menus and inventory are a little wonky, since you have to navigate the cursor with the sticks but I just mapped the right touchpad as mouse and problem solved.
Wow I’ve been playing through Grim Dawn for the past couple of days on my Deck dealing with the wonky UI controls, and I having right track pad just be the mouse would solve 99% of my issues. I can’t believe I didn’t just rebind it. I even went through a couple of community profiles lol
Spider-man remastered
I just finished Ori and the Blind Forest and it was a lot of fun. Really well done game in my opinion. Similar to Hollow Knight, if you’ve played that.
If you haven’t played Hollow Knight, play Hollow Knight.
Here’s hoping you move on to Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It’s one of my favorite of all time.
Diablo 4
Star Realms
Dead Cells
Noita (700 hours on this bad boy thanks to COVID)
GTA V
Skull the Hero Slayer
- Diablo 4: plays great on Deck and is the perfect way to kill time during lunch break.
- DROP - System Breach: surprisingly tense hacking puzzle/pattern recognition game. Sleeper hit for me.
- Humanity: Lemmings meets Robo Rally, but designed by the Rez/Tetris Effect people.
I’ve played through the newer tomb raider games and they’re great, same with horizon zero dawn and Control. Being able to turn on gyro aiming while a arrow is notched or your gun is raised makes those kinds of games really fun.
I was playing Control as well, but I haven’t tried gyro aiming. I should figure it out.
It’s so worth it, gyro aiming makes life so much better. Any game where you aim using the left trigger is perfect for it. You just set your gyro trigger to activate on trigger pull. Tuning it can be a bit tricky, and I found for Control specifically it didn’t like mouse input from the gyro, I had to trial and error the aiming. Tomb raider had gyro aiming by default.
Hmm, I tried setting Gyro to mouse in the Steam Deck controller settings for Control, and wasn’t too impressed. Might have done it wrong, may just take some time. It sounds like games that support gyro aiming in the in-game settings are better?
It definitely takes some tinkering to get it right. I’ll go check what my settings are tomorrow morning when I wake up.
Mostly Diablo 4. Game plays great on it.
Also been busy with cult of the lamb and a bit of Cuphead.
