The issues you see on Steam Deck are familiar to PC users, but Griffais tweeted the performance problems were “still possible to optimize/mitigate in the various driver layers” on Valve’s hardware. Fixes for heavy stutter during background streaming of assets will be available in a Proton release next week, but are available to test now on the bleeding-edge branch of Experimental. The graphics team has been hard at work on optimizing ELDEN RING for Steam Deck. “Fixes for heavy stutter during background streaming of assets will be available in a Proton release next week, but are available to test now on the bleeding-edge branch of Experimental.” “The graphics team has been hard at work on optimizing ELDEN RING for Steam Deck,” wrote Griffais.

As spotted by Eurogamer, Valve coder Pierre-Loup Griffais shared an update on FromSoftware’s latest project, and provided a brief clip of the new and old versions running side-by-side. Elden Ring currently sports the Verified title, meaning its passed quality checks on input, display, system support, and compatibility options.Īnyway, that doesn’t mean it’s without its problems, and Valve is already on it with an experimental build of the performance patch available now. Right now, there’s three ratings scoring performance and a fourth marking games as Unknown until they’re reviewed. Valve’s got a long list of “Steam Deck Verified” it says work great on the device “right out of the box.” Since its hardware reveal, the company has maintained that it was reviewing the entire Steam catalog and categorizing games by their compatibility. Valve is aware of the issue, and one coder has already posted an update sharing gameplay improvements. Steam Deck emails are just now rolling out for the first wave of preorders, but reports of Elden Ring’s stuttering handheld performance are already circulating.

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