All the stuff on general performance, prefs, and battery life still applies.
Because good god, the crashes.
Crashes on the main menu.
Crashes on the Larian logo screen.
Crashes immediately after launching.
Crashes before the launcher even loads.
Crashes that leave the Steam Deck stuck on a spinning Steam logo, twirling round and round for infinity.
Every time, for hours, on both my main 512GB Deck and my backup 256GB model.Stop.
Verifying the files through Steam.
Reinstalling the whole thing.
I even rolled back to earlier early access builds, and they didnt work either.
attempt to resist subsequently moaning about it for three straight paragraphs on the PC gaming website you work for.
Maybe not one of thebest Steam Deck gamesever, but theres nothing really uncomfortable about it either.
Stable in the not-crashing sense, anyway.
I also used these tweaks in my battery life test.
One last tip: get yourSteam Deck a microSD cardif you havent already.
Baldurs Gate 3 is a big lad indeed, so make your youve got space for it.
Plus a couple of extra gigabytes for Proton Experimental, obviously.
Former contributor Emily Gera also works on it.
