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As someone playing through Witcher 3 on a Steam Deck for the first time, to say that I'm wildly excited about this is not an understatement. Witcher 2 currently
by jason-phillips 4y ago
As someone playing through Witcher 3 on a Steam Deck for the first time, to say that I'm wildly excited about this is not an understatement. Witcher 2 currently appears to be a no-go on the Deck and I'd love to play the rest of the games in the series.
- Aethella 4y agoWitcher 2 also runs perfectly fine on the Deck. You just need to switch to Proton-GE rather than default version.
- COGlory 4y agoThere's also a native version, right?
- cheshire_cat 4y agoThe "native" linux version of Witcher 2 does emulations. Since it's bundled it's very out of date and technology has advanced since then. Witcher 2 had really bad graphics bugs on my Linux playthrough, none of which appeared on Windows.
- zeagle 4y agoDo you mind if I ask what settings you run it on and how happy you are with the performance? I'm precontemplatively considering a steam deck but haven't really looked into it.
- patrickk 4y agoNot OP but ProtonDB has you covered: https://www.protondb.com/app/20920 https://www.protondb.com/app/20920 Fantastic site.
- jason-phillips 4y agoSure. I left it on default settings and the video/graphics performance along with the playability has been truly remarkable. The stereo surround is also quite good. I suppose some criticisms might be that the battery goes pretty quickly (~1 hour) and it does get very warm, but I find these tradeoffs easy to live with. I've only had my deck for about a month and this is my first game to play through on it. I'm a software engineer with a ton of Linux experience so hacking the Deck doesn't scare me at all; I've read quite a bit about it. But I figured I'd give it a go first with the out-of-the-box configuration and so far have been thoroughly impressed.
- zeagle 4y agoThats great. Thanks!