It’s heavily discounted on Steam today, but I’ve heard the EA launcher causes issues when playing/launching on Deck?
What’s it really like?
I can’t get the EA launcher to work at all on 3.5.1, fwiw.
Works fine. I completed whole trilogy last winter on my deck with no issues.
ME1 works fine but I’m finding the frame rate inconsistent.
Indoors, 60 but stuttering to 58. Outdoors, 40 - 49.
I’ve set it to 40 locked when undocked, but it still drops and stutters to 37 when changing scenes.
Docked, the frame limit on the Deck is released and you e only the in game framerate limiters, which is 30 or 60.
Lock CPU frequency to the max with powertool, and even the presidium stay at 60Fps, the IGPU is only half used everywhere but CPU idle throttle hurts the framerate
It’s unreal Engine, it’s expected to get the occasional frame time spike here and there especially when loading a new area. A top tier machine would have those same spikes, mass effect 1 does tend to have some more spikes, though. I never had issues that bad in the first game, I was using 4GB VRAM and cryoutilities 2.0.
As for frame rate I got 60 indoors and about low 50s to 60 outdoors. However, i was hitting 60 more often than not. There is one specific area in the citadel (not a combat area) where FPS drops to the low 40s.
Mass effect 2 and 3 are flawless, you shouldn’t drop below 60fps at all. Small frame time spikes only occurring when loading a new area.
I played all games at 50hz to extend the battery life.
Good stuff. I’m happy to plod through 1 if 2 works well enough.
Honestly, your bigger issue will be with how often EA screws up the launcher. That’s a never ending cycle.
Check ProtonDB for latest issues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/heJesB958i
That commentary helped me to play some EA Games offline! Really helpful
Achievements appear to be fixed on EA Play now. No need for workarounds.
I do the workaround for offline play :)
It’s near on perfect imo but you do have to be online to play
That’s what pisses me off actually. I got it with the Origin launcher that didn’t force you to be online so EA actually made my game worse without my consent. I wish we could sue them.
I played all three games on the Deck, with no significant issues at all. Everyone is salty because EA is terrible and their launcher is janky, but ME:LE worked just fine…for me anyway.
I’m playing through it right now and it runs just fine for me. I don’t count my fps though so I’m not a reliable source if you wanna know if it runs “perfectly”