What KDE/Kwin version do you use? Would be interesting to compare.

Edited the original post but might aswell comment it. I switched to GNOME (Wayland) and the FPS issue seems to be gone there. I ran the game with only the command line arguments “gamemoderun %command%” in steam and it seems to work properly. Very odd issue.

Launching it in GNOME (Wayland) seems to fix the issue. Very uncertain what this issue was but it seems to be related to KDE.

(Also I did not let the shaders compile, so not a shader issue)

Got gamescope working but the issue still persists. I’m gonna try launching in different DE aswell as letting shaders fully compile.

Good info, I will try this tomorrow and report back.

I had not seen this, but V-sync was off all the time :(

I’m on Wayland, so no X11 shenanigans going on here 😭

I removed all of my other arguments and tried to start with “gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -f %command%”, when I start the game the “Processing Vulkan Shaders” steam pop-up shows up, and when I click “Skip” (as I always do) it just disappears, no error or anything, the “Play” button on steam just goes back to green.

Update: This did not solve the problem :(

Monitor and game both running with 240hz set as refresh rate, game is also set to max fps at 360 but also have display refresh rate set to 240hz (yes, there were separate options for this)

I attempted to run the game using gamescope but I’m not very familiar with using it, I was unable to add gamescope to the steam command arguments and also running the game executable with the command through the terminal. I’m not sure what the error is or if I’m just not using gamescope correctly.

I will try this, the graph looks flat though.

Works great so far!

Thanks, this is basically all I needed to hear. Im gonna try it out immediately.

Yeah I am thinking about waiting until I get a new one for that specific reason.

Mullvad VPN :)

De-google everything. I use a VPN and run LibreWolf with some plugins like uBlock, uMatrix, deArrow and SponsorBlock. Still haven’t gotten around installing Lineage on my phone to get rid of Google there, but at least I run VPN on my phone at all times aswell.

Now since I use LibreWolf it deletes cookies on every shutdown. This is a bit annoying because I have to log back in every time I visit websites. Therefore I run BitWarden and have also allowed some cookies in website settings.

Its not the best privacy solutions but it’s an easy setup for a lot of profit imo.

The process itself is not hard no. I just could not find the firmware required.

How and where did you find that link?

It only states that the necessary firmware can be found on the manufacturers page

Almost, this seems to contain the rollback from Android 13 to Android 12. I cant find any article about rolling back 14 to 13.

I understand your situation. If you do want to dodge Nintendo however you might be able to get a similar experience by emulating a Switch on a Steam Deck.

I haven’t bought anything from Nintendo since the DS. I never believed their consoles to have the quality, performance or uniqueness to justify their prices. Exclusives is just a money-grabbing FOMO practice that I have never deemed justifiable either.

However, I never actively chose to stand off on purchasing their products until I heard about how they treated the Smash community and literally shut down their tournaments as well as how their fantastically buggy releases of certain Switch Pokemon games.

They have proven time and time again to not only not care about their consumers or community but to actively seek them out and piss in their mouth whenever they can.