Hasn't been for me. I have never had the game crash before, but after this native thing, I have had 3 crashes now that have collectively lost me over 4 hours of progress, because every time it crashes, I lose the last few save files. I lost about 30 minutes today, and the last one before that cost me over 90 minutes, which included 6 manual saves and at least 8 autosaves. Not to mention that it looks like absolute kentucky fried ass on an external monitor. I am just gonna go back to playing on the pc, or streaming the pc installation to my deck. I am over this.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Glad they tried it in act 3 where fps starts being a problem, too many reviews only checked act 1 for performance
wow its a fairly striking difference. I was not expecting that. the urge to start another playthrough is hard to resist, Larian. lol
Yeah, I was expecting a minor improvement, but it's a pretty significant one.
Hope they release it on GOG. That's the one I use on my Deck.
Is it available to replace my existing install?
It auto updated for me on Steam Deck and Bazzite, so if you're using either of those it should be.
it should use the linux version automatically, as long as you don't have any overrides in the compatibility (proton) settings
On desktop I just turned off the compatibility settings for proton and then reinstalled. Steam cloud held all my saves and they were unaffected.
I really want to play this game, but I can't stomach brain-parasite stuff :(
It's quite tame, they're basically just acting ot a headache while the narrator says some stuff.
I mean, apart from the intro, OC should definitely skip it.
Unless they want to get psionic powers, that screen is pretty heavy on the brain gore and worms
Oh yeah, that too. I forgot how gore it is.
I refused to eat more worms on my playthroughs, are the powers that good?
Some powers are really strong (e.g., luck of the far realm). But what is really strong is the transformation. Fly every turn? Yes please.
I feel very overpowered in dialogues for one, too many boosts to my rolls at times.
Play Divinity Original Sin 2 if you haven't already. Same developer, very similar game overall, and no brain wormy stuff. Also a masterpiece
you should do it anyway. you will be ready for real life brain parasites that are coming out in a couple years of they don't get delayed again
You could look at the mods and checks if some remove the brain visuals. And don't go on the first floor during the intro :p
They pointed out Cronos was blurry using Proton. Looking at the footage, the same was true of Balder's Gate 3. What's up with that? Just a matter of sharpening? The resolution does seem to be the same by looking at the aliasing.
FSR2 looks like trash all around. I don't understand why it's so common and why FSR 3.1 isn't included, given how so many workarounds exist when you tinker with 3rd party apps to enable the functionality work so well.
Windows/Linux comparison footage both used FSR2 though, I guess it's the half rate shading?
I will say half-rate shade render or whatever it's called was a game changer being turn off. Between my bad eyes and playing on a hand held I thought reading text just wasn't going to happen. Turns out I'm not THAT blind and it was just that setting
The worst part is while variable shading can help... The fixed half shading on the Steam Deck's APU barely gives any performance benefits at all. It will make everything look horrendous on many games, and net you pretty much zero FPS. Keep it always off.
Is that enabled by default? Not on my Deck, maybe I turned it off a long time ago.
It was default!