Elden Ring Steam Deck: How Does it Run?

Elden Ring has turned out to be one of the biggest selling titles of the century, but how does it run on the Steam Deck?

The game originally suffered from stuttering and optimisation issues on PC, but Valve appears to have implemented fixes for the version on the Deck that appear to have been successful.

The fixes were originally announced back in February by Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais, and they have now been actioned.

Here’s everything you need to know regarding Elden Ring and how it currently runs on the Steam Deck in March 2022.

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As noted, Pierre-Loup Griffais announced back in February 2022 that there were changes coming for the Steam Deck version of Elden Ring. 

He tweeted: “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.”

Steam Deck runs on Linux, so therefore users of the OS will probably have a better experience with the game as well.

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Griffais discussed the Linux implementation on the Steam Deck with Eurogamer on Wednesday 16th March 2022.

He said: “On the Linux/Proton side, we have a pretty extensive shader pre-caching system with multiple levels of source-level and binary cache representations pre-seeded and shared across users. 

“On the Deck, we take this to the next level, since we have a unique GPU/driver combination to target, and the majority of the shaders that you run locally are actually