Baldur's Gate 3

No issues here, do you per chance have any deck mods installed. I read in another thread that someone was crashing due to some steam deck tools.

I have put 46 hours into BG3 exclusively on my Steam Deck. It is installed on the SD card, and I have the game limited to 24fps per a guide that was posted somewhere. I have various decky mods and adjustments from setting up ToTK on yuzu, which included using powertools and making adjustments to BIOS (swap file size increase maybe?)

I am nearing the end of act 1 and the only issues I’ve had are audio related after waking the deck up from sleep. I typically leave the game running and rarely close it completely.

My deck is running the main stable build, and I have the game running with the default proton build, not experimental. Playing with the most popular community Kb&M controller setup listed.

I hope you can figure out how to get it running, because It’s such a good game. Good luck

Did you purchase on steam or somewhere else? The people I've seen reporting issues bought it via GOG for the most part.

It works basically correctly for me. Performance isn't great. I did have issues right after launch that were resolved with the developer>remove proton files (I think?) option and restarting the install process.

Just another voice to add that it's works out if the box on my deck; my only guess is it needs to be specially the steam purchase, otherwise my deck is pretty much as it was when I first got it and the game seems optimized for deck (albeit the graphics aren't the greatest lol)

I'm about 40 hours in, I have a 3080 card and ultra wide monitor but have played 90% on my steam deck. No crashes, performance is good enough and everything is readable. It's my perfect handheld RPG.

I've tried, but felt that the quality sacrifice vs my main PC was just too great, especially considering the amount of fan noise Deck would kick up...

Did not love the racial menus either. I think I'll stick to mouse and keyboard for this one.

I’ve been playing on the Steam Deck with almost no issue, though it is a bit different from the PC environment. I actually just yesterday played on my PC after having strictly played on my Deck since release and it felt way different. I’d gotten so used to Deck controls that I’m having to relearn everything. Having a mouse to point out everything makes it easier to misclick on everything.

The one issue that came up is that now my Cloud Sync won’t load on the Deck after having played on the PC. I had turned off Cross-Saves bc I didn’t think I needed it and it slowed everything down (I assumed it was PC-to-console), but I may have turn it back on. Otherwise I may have to only play on PC now. :(

At work at the moment on a not-long-enough short break, but I'll come back in a few hours to see if you have an answer, if not I'll let you know my settings. This game is running quite well on my Deck.

Been playing on my arch Linux install since launch and no issues. I know it's not a deck but it's still arch, specifically endeavour.

I'm going to wait before buying. Thanks for the update

Try proton experimental (manage game sub menu in steam).

I’ve only played the release version on Linux, and it’s been running great. Maybe try Vulkan instead of directx, as well.

As for performance, I set the frame rate cap to 30 on my deck and left everything else at default. I’m also running off an sd card

Okay, when I first tried to set it up on launch day, I kept getting similar errors.

I detailed what I did to get it running in this thread. If you're having the same issue, hopefully that will get you running.

For Proton, I'm currently using Proton Experimental, but other versions of Proton or Proton GE would likely work.

It pretty much worked out of the box for me. I just set it to use Proton Hotfix.

I’ve had a lot of success with these settings! It looks great and the lower fps isn’t noticeable considering it’s turn based.

https://overkill.wtf/baldurs-gate-3-best-settings-steam-deck/

I'm playing with the Steam version, with Proton Experimental and these settings: https://steamdeckhq.com/news/baldurs-gate-3-on-steam-deck-first-impressions/

Beforehand I used CryoUtilities too: https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities

The only tweaks to those are: I didn't apply the SteamOS setting cause I'm not trying to limit battery usage, and I enabled TAA as the antialisiasing method.

try some of the settings these guys have posted: https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940

Mine was similar except that it was crashing with vulkan errors.
which is odd because the internet claimed it would always run in dx11 on steam.

Anyways i edited a launcher.cfg or launcher.sh file (can't remember which). and i pointed both versions at the same dx11 exe file.

After that it runs fine - i lock the deck aand game at 40 fps,
and i think i limited the CPU to 10W. Settings are mixed medium or high textures, low on the shadows/clours/fog.

On my steamdeck, plugged into a projector

It's running fine on mine. Taking it's sweet time during large combat encounters, but pretty good besides that.

What proton are you using? Someone else said using experimental worked for them, which is easy to install and test. I'm using GE which is a bit harder to install but really does help get some broken games to work.

I bought it refurbished through GameStop. I don't think valve will cover it. Does anyone know if GameStop will let me exchange it even if it's been more than a week?