Time to wander through the Black Forest from your bed, as Valheim now has a fresh update available that was previously in a public Beta to add in gamepad support and work nicely with the Steam Deck. It's the same Beta we wrote about previously but it's now available for everyone.
Want to see it on the Steam Deck? Got you covered:
Direct Link
By default, it appears that Valve picked Proton 7.0-1 for Valheim to run on Deck, even though it has a fully supported and nicely working native Linux version. It's not clear why they picked Proton but there you have it. After doing some testing, I can safely say this is going to be awesome on a Steam Deck. While it has a few performance issues here and there, a lot of games are the same with stuttering when bits load in, which will improve over time. It's comfortable as heck with Deck controls though, the Valheim team did a great job on controller support.
The non-spoiler patch notes include these highlights:
New Content:
* Suddenly… Frost Caves!
* Anniversary drinking horn added. Skål!Fixes & Improvements:
* Pause function in singleplayer
* Full controller support! (Gamepad legend and alternative glyphs)
* Gamepad text input when running through in steam big picture mode
* UI, settings and Steam Deck fixes
* FPS Limiter and reduced background performance
* Split dialog can take numeric input
* Signs can now be built without a workbench
* Bug fixes and quality of life improvements
* Armour stand now supports atgeirs and shield styles
* Nomap mode tweaks
Valheim is available to buy on Humble Store or Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: Liam DaweBy default, it appears that Valve picked Proton 7.0-1 for Valheim to run on Deck, even though it has a fully supported and nicely working native Linux version.Last time my girlfriend tried to run Valheim native, it didn't run well. There have been several updates since then, maybe we should try it again ^^
Everything else worked pretty well. Can imagine it playing amazing with the steamdeck controls.
Philadelphus Mar 1, 2022
Actually actually, that brings up a question: how easy is it to select between native and Proton versions of games on the Deck?
Uberkeyser Mar 2, 2022
areamanplaysgame Mar 2, 2022
Quoting: crt0megaQuoting: Liam DaweBy default, it appears that Valve picked Proton 7.0-1 for Valheim to run on Deck, even though it has a fully supported and nicely working native Linux version.Last time my girlfriend tried to run Valheim native, it didn't run well. There have been several updates since then, maybe we should try it again ^^
The game doesn't perform as well as it should, but I don't think that's just the Linux native build. I think it is poorly optimized on Windows as well, and I would be surprised if running it with Proton improves performance.
TheRiddick Mar 2, 2022
Last edited by TheRiddick on 2 March 2022 at 10:05 pm UTC
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