The Last of Us on Steam Deck is not great

That's not great. Was really hoping to play this classic. But I guess I'll wait and see if they fix the issues. I mean, it's been 10 years already, whats a year or two more?

It will take around an hour to build the shaders on the main menu

Wow.

with many people on Windows reporting problematic performance and constant crashes.

When was the last big release where everything worked on release? You spend more money and are rewarded with a miserable experience.


Edit: According to several reviews the German version features a wrong translation for building shaders, i.e. in the sense of house shaders.


Last edited by Klaas on 28 March 2023 at 8:27 pm UTC

It runs very well on my RX 6700 XT, however it only detects 8GB of VRAM (the GPU has 12GB) and that leads to slowdowns and texture pop-ins. I already applied a "workaround" (switched from Ultra to "only" high) but it should be fixed either by game devs or in Proton. I saw people with RX 6600s saying that in their case, only 4GB is detected.

So it is a issue across the PC space then, I was thinking it was only a deck prolem.

It runs very well on my RX 6700 XT, however it only detects 8GB of VRAM (the GPU has 12GB) and that leads to slowdowns and texture pop-ins.

AMD RX 6900 XT also shows 8GB of VRAM (and the mentioned out of date driver warning that can be ignored). The 70 FPS average seem a bit low, so gonna compare these issues with Windows 11.

FWIW it appears to be getting mostly negative reviews on Steam, mostly from those disgruntled by it being a horrible port in the first place. I was just about to buy it too.


Last edited by StalePopcorn on 28 March 2023 at 11:39 pm UTC

Edit: According to several reviews the German version features a wrong translation for building shaders, i.e. in the sense of house shaders.

That is thoroughly brilliant in its wonkiness! Obligatory link;

I once did a translation about a space ship simulator - in this context space is translated as ruimte (space as in universe). The client copied and pasted the word ruimte to a message popping up every 3 seconds, instructing the user to press SPACE (as in space bar) to jump, without consulting me beforehand. The result was that the user was instructed to press the universe every so many seconds. The end result, reminiscent of Zero Wing (All Your Base Are Belong To Us), was run into the ground by all review sites.

Last edited by Pengling on 29 March 2023 at 12:57 am UTC

For a game called "The Last Of Us" there sure are a lot of them.......

It will take around an hour to build the shaders on the main menu

Wow.

with many people on Windows reporting problematic performance and constant crashes.

When was the last big release where everything worked on release? You spend more money and are rewarded with a miserable experience.


Edit: According to several reviews the German version features a wrong translation for building shaders, i.e. in the sense of house shaders.

Resident Evil 4? Is it perfect? Probably not but why is that the bar? It's very similar to the Last of Us, many people are no doubt choosing between the two, and its reviews are overwhelmingly positive a week after release, very few technical complaints.

Relative to its peers, this seems exceptionally bad, Exceptions are newsworthy.

AMD RX 6900 XT also shows 8GB of VRAM (and the mentioned out of date driver warning that can be ignored). The 70 FPS average seem a bit low, so gonna compare these issues with Windows 11.

Arch Linux:
+ Compiling shaders faster than Windows
+ Shorter loading times than Windows
- Shows only 8 VRAM in settings
- FPS 10 frames less than Windows

Windows 11:
+ Shows all 16 VRAM in settings
+ FPS 10 frames higher than Linux
- Compiling shaders way slower than Linux
- Longer loading times than Linux

Guess Linux and Windows score 2 versus 2. I even got the same out of date driver warning on Windows, so needed to update my one month old driver. My choice will be a Linux playthrough, obviously.

That is thoroughly brilliant in its wonkiness!

The original Star Craft had the same issue: Carrier house Interceptor. Same on regular buildings, but not that obvious – but why should it say house only when something is being built!?

Reset the "Crappy PC port of major title" timer!

When was the last big release where everything worked on release? You spend more money and are rewarded with a miserable experience.

I would say the Resident Evil 4 remake is a perfect release. That game has amazing performance and, as far as I could tell, no bugs or other game breaking issues.

But that remake is a exception these day's. The default release method of most game developers is launching a broken mess and then we have to wait and hope for it to get fixed.


Last edited by Sojiro84 on 29 March 2023 at 6:47 am UTC

I would say the Resident Evil 4 remake is a perfect release. That game has amazing performance and, as far as I could tell, no bugs or other game breaking issues.

Really? I couldn't even get to the settings menu without RE4 hard hanging my deck.

Once again, a console game that are badly ported on PC.
I would like to buy it day one, but finally, after reading comments here and elsewhere, I will wait until they optimized the game.
I don't want to buy a game full price that is not optimized and buggy, PC gamers deserve as respect as console gamers.


Last edited by legluondunet on 29 March 2023 at 1:55 pm UTC

Once again, a console game that are badly ported on PC.
I would like to buy it day one, but finally, after reading comments here and elsewhere, I will wait until they optimized the game.
I don't want to buy a game full price that is not optimized and buggy, PC gamers deserve as respect as console gamers.

I agree. I was waiting for this game also and was going to buy it on release if it worked with Linux.

Well.. it works with Linux. Terribly. But it also works terribly on Windows apparently, so that's fair.

In any case. I'll wait.

it has the same issue some other bigger games have where the RAM will fill up to around 14/14.1GB

Sounds like something that would potentially be fixed by that RADV RAM usage bug.

As far as shader compilation in concerned, isn't that something normally taken care of automatically on the Steam Deck due to Valve pre-compiling those specifically for Steam Deck users? Surprised that isn't currently another download.


Hopefully it's just short term fresh port issues that they can resolve soon.

As far as shader compilation in concerned, isn't that something normally taken care of automatically on the Steam Deck due to Valve pre-compiling those specifically for Steam Deck users?

Do they really compile them centrally? AFAIK the files that are shared are generated on the users' systems.

For the refund window, I would think that if you used up your 2 hour play time compiling shaders and troubleshooting, that would be a special case for consideration. They state the 2 hour/2 week general rule, but also indicate that there's wiggle room. This is their wording:

Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any title that is requested within 14 days of purchase and has been played for less than 2 hours. Even if you fall outside of the refund rules we've described, you can submit a request and we'll take a look at it.

Last edited by Grogan on 29 March 2023 at 5:24 pm UTC

When was the last big release where everything worked on release? You spend more money and are rewarded with a miserable experience.

I wonder if this is why retro gaming has become so big. Things just work and are mostly without bugs, even then the glitches/bugs are often funny. Ohh and you can game in 4k on an old PC still

I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where game companies provide binary shader cache downloads for the steam deck, since it's a known platform, to avoid the long compile times. I recall Valve already doing this for a recent game (was it dead space?)