Fallout 4’s “next-gen” replace has eliminated the settings menu from the sport on Steam Deck and reportedly made it worse to play on Valve’s transportable PC, upsetting many gamers.
When Bethesda introduced plans to launch a brand new, massive “next-gen” patch for Fallout 4, folks have been excited. The open-world post-apocalyptic RPG, initially launched in 2015, would run and look higher on consoles. Some previous bugs could be fastened, too and Bethesda was including new content material to the big recreation from its Creator Membership retailer. The studio additionally promised that Fallout 4 could be Verified on Steam Deck after the replace, which many assumed could be a great factor. However now that the replace is out within the wild, it’s turn out to be clear that Fallout 4 is definitely worse on Steam Deck because of this. Oops!
On April 25, Bethesda launched a brand new replace for Fallout 4. In keeping with a number of posts on Reddit, Steam boards, Twitter, and elsewhere, gamers who downloaded the brand new replace on Steam Deck have found that, in an effort to get the sport “Verified” by Valve, Bethesda has eliminated the sport’s launcher. This was a considerably annoying pop-up on Steam Deck, but it surely was additionally the one approach to change the in-game visible settings in Fallout 4 on PC. Now, with the launcher gone, gamers are caught with regardless of the recreation defaults to when booted up, resulting in crashes, poor efficiency, and different issues.
One other difficulty is that the replace doesn’t repair an issue gamers have handled on Steam Deck OLED, which has a 90hz display screen as a substitute of the 60hz display screen discovered on the OG mannequin. Gamers have reported that Fallout 4 nonetheless runs at half the FPS meant when taking part in on OLED and its 90hz display screen. Worse, mods constructed to repair a few of these Steam Deck points and visible issues don’t work anymore due to the replace. Gamers are additionally reporting {that a} earlier FPS repair involving an .ini file isn’t working anymore after the replace.
There’s a partial workaround that provides the Fallout 4 launcher again to the Steam Deck model of the sport. Gamers want so as to add “SteamDeck=0 %command%” to Fallout 4’s launch choices within the recreation’s settings on Steam Deck. But it surely’s wild and never nice that gamers have to do that simply to vary visible settings whereas taking part in on Valve’s transportable PC.
It’s not all unhealthy information. Gamers on OG Steam Decks have reported that the sport runs higher, which Kotaku was in a position to affirm. And lots of gamers on desktop PCs say the sport now runs at a locked 60 with improved visuals and body pacing. Hopefully, Bethesda can replace the replace to both add a settings menu to Fallout 4 (unlikely at this level) or add some approach to entry the launcher with out including a particular command for Steam Deck gamers.
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