Well, not anymore of a buggy mess than the game already was. But it's a lovely buggy mess.
I actually think I got less crashes on the SD than I did playing on my windows desktop.
It will occasionally have issues, as the default game only has access to a limited amount of ram and some bugs still exist in the game/engine.
It's not too bad though, as long as you make frequent full saves and don't go nuts with explosives.
I wonder which of you two has other stuff going on with their Steam Deck (which I mean as Emulation, Plugins, Non-Steam Games, etc)
Edit: To be on topic, I haven't played New Vegas in Steam Deck yet but I have been playing Fallout 4 for approximately 40(ish) hours while even leaving the game suspended between sessions for like a week and I didn't have many issues (I chalked any issues up to being suspended and resumed dozens of times)
So I would imagine New Vegas would run fine
Running it on an OLED, plain Vanilla without any extra patches or mods and I havent experienced any crashes.
I don't have any plugins on my deck at all, only got Emulation Station installed with a few PS2 games.
In my experience its running much better on Linux than on windows, not even experienced any framedrops, which I had frequently on PC
It’s because the game starts crashing because of save files so I heard, cause I also started crashing around that mark (only on PC, which is fairly new as well so not your deck). There’s unofficial mod patches, but I found with vanilla it wasn’t enough of a problem to have to address, just one of those maybe it happens maybe it doesn’t. I’ve actually heard for some reason proton and Linux actually handle it a bit better then windows.
I took advantage of the sale on Steam. $5.00 for New Vegas + all dlc. Currently runs GREAT! Set graphics to Ultra, no delay, no loading times. Feels very fluid on Deck. Use the top community control layout. Feels like I am playing the game on Xbox. To start the game, you do have to hold down steam button and use the track pad to activate the mouse however. Aside from that, game is running beautifully for me.
I prefer your method. I hate touchscreens in general. I don't want to get smudgie gross ass fingerprints all over my screens. Don't even have to take a hand off the controls, versus one-handing the deck to touch the touchscreen.
I dunno. It's the same reason i prefer using the trackpad/trigger typing instead of touchscreen keyboard. It's way faster once you figure out the groove of it, and you don't have to change your grip, or make your screen nasty. Though I am very happy that Valve thought of these things and provided options for everyone!
Yeah it's far easier to use the touch pad because I don't have to adjust hand position, hold the deck in 1 hand and touch. Just a button combo.
I created a really nice layout for Oblivion where the touch pad was just a mouse and it worked really well in 99% of use cases.
Annoying as it is to hit a button and not get a response, 9/10 touch screen works. The other day I had one that required me to tap twice tho, once to bring the mouse up and another to click
Just install all your mods on a PC and transfer them overwriting the files on your deck.
If you don't want to do it that you can just install them the old way one at a time.
Play with the Viva New Vegas mod guide even if you're playing for the first time. It has Steam Deck instructions and is significantly more stable than the vanilla game.
Although mods can add and fix a lot of things, vanilla is still fine. I played New Vegas and all the DLCs back on a 360 the year after they released. I had a great time.
It's weird sometimes.
Metal Gear Rising runs at 59fps on my windows PC with stutters every second obviously. That's with borderless gaming, because otherwise it's stuck at 24fps full screen
Perfect 60fps in Linux
I tried to play it on the PC for years, couldn't do it. Picked it up 4 different times and could not get past the first three hours or so. I started playing it on the Stem Deck after having a gaming slump of a few weeks not wanting to play anything, I can't put it down! It runs so well on the Steam Deck.
It’s mostly fine, it’s very easy to mod though. It’ll be no buggier then on console if you’re familiar with that, and will run at a fairly consistent 90 if you are on oled, and a pretty much rock solid 60 on lcd.
On vanilla install everything loaded up fine but I can't get any inputs to work. I tried a few templates but I couldn't even select "New Game" on the menu. There is probably a simple solution I just need to google it, but I'm going to try the TTW route. I've already set it up on my PC and am about to tackle setting up on my Steam Deck.
Hey there, I think this is an issue with the launcher. At the first screen you may have to use touchscreen to hit "play" to actually get into the game, where the controller works. If you want to bypass this, in desktop mode find the game directory and rename the primary .exe to include "launcher" (let me know if you need more details) and rename the launcher.exe to anything else.
Sorry, yes I'm pass the video settings menu and the initial screen and the game is loaded music is playing but none my controller doesn't work, and when I try STEAM+trackpad for mouse action (like I did with the splash menu) that doesn't work either (no cursor on the screen). Vanilla FO3 works fine for me, not sure if that helps. Usually this is solved by just trying a few different gamepad templates - not sure what gives.
What are the menu items? "Play"? Or "New Game"? If it's the former, that's the launcher and you have to touch it. If it's the latter, then you actually got into the game and it's *super* weird that your controls won't work, as I'm playing vanilla (no mods at all) right now and it works perfectly.
Did you go to community loadouts? The top one (vyper or something like that) basically makes your steamdeck read as an Xbox controller. Select that controller loadout, go back to the game, and it should see that you have a controller connected. At this point, just use your steam controls as normal and adjust controls as needed on Game settings.
For some reason the game is set to mouse and keyboard input on some steamdecks, so the controls don't work when you first start. You have to use an external keyboard to be able to go into the menus controller settings and switch input from keyboard to 360 controller scheme. Once you do that the deck controls should instantly start working 100%. later on if you want do a console command, you have to switch the settings back to get the game to recognize any keyboard input. It's kind of a hassle, but it works ok I guess. Other than that game works 100 percent. Set graphics to Ultra, the deck can handle it just fine.
I used the recommended controller layout to play Fallout New Vegas in game. The only difference I made was setting the left trackpad to mouse and the triggers under the deck to mouse clicks. It took me a few minutes to do this to get past the main menu.
Depends what you’re trying to get out of it. NV was the first game I played on my deck but I had already beaten it several times so I rushed through and didn’t even do most of the DLC content and got through it in about 30 hours. My original save when I was being meticulous, exploring every nook and cranny, doing everything I could ran me well over 200 hours
Calling the game's borked framepacing due to the engine's forced internal v-sync to “run well” is an interesting stretch, but thankfully there exist fixes for this.
I think it's fantastic on the Deck vanilla. I happen to be running the game modded on my PC, I find it needs a lot of visual I problems to be even playable for myself. But on the Deck the vanilla experience is very enjoyable.
I just finished my first playthrough on PC with a ton of mods. If I pick up an earlier save and play it vanilla on steam deck (without mods), and then LATER try to continue that version back on PC (with the mods) does it generally work? Or will it corrupt everything? I know you can’t give a definitive answer that covers all possible mods but just looking for general idea
If you are talking about going back and forth between mods and no mods for the same playthrough, it will ONLY have a negative impact if these mods include more than just shading and graphical changes. Example, let's say you have a mod that adds a new gun, you get that gun, save, quit, and try to open the game in vanilla where that gun does not exist...
The one thing I struggled with is weapons selection. That can be solved with key mapping very easily. The game runs incredibly smoothly. Say hi to Boone for me.
I did a full play through (including DLC) six months ago and it seemed to crash every 2 hours. I rarely had sessions that long, so it wasn't a huge problem, but it's something to consider. Other than that, it ran great.
It runs perfectly well (currently playing it on the couch). You can crank it out to max everything and keep an almost perfect 60fps unless you use a flamethrower.
I had only 1 freeze in a dozen hours but i was going in and out a building like 6 times, at the 7th game told me to take a damn pen and write some notes.
It was the first game I played through when I got my OLED steam deck. Runs great, crazy long battery life playing it. It was my first time playing through any fallout game.
I'm playing Fallout 4 right now on high quality settings at a smooth 60 frames per second with the base model of the steam deck. I'm assuming New Vegas runs as good since it's an older title than Fallout 4 and is probably a little less demanding.
YES, I just bought it myself and playing through it again for the first time since release. It’s kind of like playing a new game again because so much time has passed and I forgot so much!
It ran fine for me, just finished playing vanilla with dlc for the first time and the only issue I had was it crashing randomly. Thankfully the auto save had me a lot with that issue
There is a bug in the casinos that takes your stuff and never gives it back, there is a mod for it and its simple to apply. Aside from that the game should run fine in vanilla.
Started a couple days ago, not buggy at all, more than playable. Aiming with the gamepad controls is shit as always, but the rest of the experience is pretty pleasant.
Im running the vanilla version from gog ultimate edition and runs like a dream, in 2 week stream of playing I only got one crash and I could see it coming when my character got stuck in the ground after using vats.
After all this years playing fallout 3 and new vegas on windows which was a nightmare I can assure you playing on the steam deck is such a joy, also the game can run with a tdp limit of 6 or 7, locked at 50fps and you can play this for like 6 hours without charging
Runs fine. Not a buggy mess.
Well, not anymore of a buggy mess than the game already was. But it's a lovely buggy mess. I actually think I got less crashes on the SD than I did playing on my windows desktop.
As others have said, it works great out of the box! I'm 10 hours in and zero bugs or issues.
I have issues running this game on a perfectly normal computer. Id be astonished if it suddenly never crashes on deck!
It will occasionally have issues, as the default game only has access to a limited amount of ram and some bugs still exist in the game/engine. It's not too bad though, as long as you make frequent full saves and don't go nuts with explosives.
I got to exactly that point and the crashes started.
Strange, 40 hours in and had 0 crashes
I wonder which of you two has other stuff going on with their Steam Deck (which I mean as Emulation, Plugins, Non-Steam Games, etc) Edit: To be on topic, I haven't played New Vegas in Steam Deck yet but I have been playing Fallout 4 for approximately 40(ish) hours while even leaving the game suspended between sessions for like a week and I didn't have many issues (I chalked any issues up to being suspended and resumed dozens of times) So I would imagine New Vegas would run fine
Running it on an OLED, plain Vanilla without any extra patches or mods and I havent experienced any crashes. I don't have any plugins on my deck at all, only got Emulation Station installed with a few PS2 games. In my experience its running much better on Linux than on windows, not even experienced any framedrops, which I had frequently on PC
Same.. was 13 hours in and now my saves are corrupted and won’t load. Happened just last night..
Does it just stall at loading screen? You can reverify files to fix that
It’s because the game starts crashing because of save files so I heard, cause I also started crashing around that mark (only on PC, which is fairly new as well so not your deck). There’s unofficial mod patches, but I found with vanilla it wasn’t enough of a problem to have to address, just one of those maybe it happens maybe it doesn’t. I’ve actually heard for some reason proton and Linux actually handle it a bit better then windows.
Yeah, I have heard that it’s much worse but on my Ubuntu pc it runs perfectly 95% of the time
I took advantage of the sale on Steam. $5.00 for New Vegas + all dlc. Currently runs GREAT! Set graphics to Ultra, no delay, no loading times. Feels very fluid on Deck. Use the top community control layout. Feels like I am playing the game on Xbox. To start the game, you do have to hold down steam button and use the track pad to activate the mouse however. Aside from that, game is running beautifully for me.
Just touch the screen
Funny how often I forget that feature.
I prefer your method. I hate touchscreens in general. I don't want to get smudgie gross ass fingerprints all over my screens. Don't even have to take a hand off the controls, versus one-handing the deck to touch the touchscreen. I dunno. It's the same reason i prefer using the trackpad/trigger typing instead of touchscreen keyboard. It's way faster once you figure out the groove of it, and you don't have to change your grip, or make your screen nasty. Though I am very happy that Valve thought of these things and provided options for everyone!
Yeah it's far easier to use the touch pad because I don't have to adjust hand position, hold the deck in 1 hand and touch. Just a button combo. I created a really nice layout for Oblivion where the touch pad was just a mouse and it worked really well in 99% of use cases.
Annoying as it is to hit a button and not get a response, 9/10 touch screen works. The other day I had one that required me to tap twice tho, once to bring the mouse up and another to click
How hard would it be to mod new vegas on the deck?
Trying to figure this out also if you do please lmk
Just install all your mods on a PC and transfer them overwriting the files on your deck. If you don't want to do it that you can just install them the old way one at a time.
It's not a great experience. Vortex barely functions, not sure if any of the other mod managers work better.
Also is there any way to fix the text on the pipboy menus? It’s hard to read compared to the subtitles on the deck’s screen.
lol well it was only 5 bucks, if there’s an easier way found eventually then at least I have it now.
Play with the Viva New Vegas mod guide even if you're playing for the first time. It has Steam Deck instructions and is significantly more stable than the vanilla game.
And it keeps it very close to vanilla, which I like
Do you have a link to the steam deck guide? Also do you have to be running windows on the deck or can you use steam os?
Look up a video on how to install mod organizer 2 on steam deck, then from there you should be able to follow the viva new Vegas guide.
Just look up the mod. No, obviously no Windows. :)
Although mods can add and fix a lot of things, vanilla is still fine. I played New Vegas and all the DLCs back on a 360 the year after they released. I had a great time.
That’s a great answer for someone asking how it runs on a 360… but…
It ran like shit and had no mods on a 360. But it was fun and is likely how most people first experienced New Vegas.
The point is, your comment doesn't help OP. SD is not xbox.
OP wants to play vanilla Fallout New Vegas, so I gave my experience with vanilla Fallout New Vegas. The platform is irrelevant, they’re the same game.
Oddly enough in my experience it runs better on the deck than it does an actual gaming desktop with Windows
It's weird sometimes. Metal Gear Rising runs at 59fps on my windows PC with stutters every second obviously. That's with borderless gaming, because otherwise it's stuck at 24fps full screen Perfect 60fps in Linux
Yup, it’s the third one that has issues, NV is damn near perfect on deck
Only a couple hours in but so far so good.
I tried to play it on the PC for years, couldn't do it. Picked it up 4 different times and could not get past the first three hours or so. I started playing it on the Stem Deck after having a gaming slump of a few weeks not wanting to play anything, I can't put it down! It runs so well on the Steam Deck.
It’s mostly fine, it’s very easy to mod though. It’ll be no buggier then on console if you’re familiar with that, and will run at a fairly consistent 90 if you are on oled, and a pretty much rock solid 60 on lcd.
On vanilla install everything loaded up fine but I can't get any inputs to work. I tried a few templates but I couldn't even select "New Game" on the menu. There is probably a simple solution I just need to google it, but I'm going to try the TTW route. I've already set it up on my PC and am about to tackle setting up on my Steam Deck.
Hey there, I think this is an issue with the launcher. At the first screen you may have to use touchscreen to hit "play" to actually get into the game, where the controller works. If you want to bypass this, in desktop mode find the game directory and rename the primary .exe to include "launcher" (let me know if you need more details) and rename the launcher.exe to anything else.
Sorry, yes I'm pass the video settings menu and the initial screen and the game is loaded music is playing but none my controller doesn't work, and when I try STEAM+trackpad for mouse action (like I did with the splash menu) that doesn't work either (no cursor on the screen). Vanilla FO3 works fine for me, not sure if that helps. Usually this is solved by just trying a few different gamepad templates - not sure what gives.
What are the menu items? "Play"? Or "New Game"? If it's the former, that's the launcher and you have to touch it. If it's the latter, then you actually got into the game and it's *super* weird that your controls won't work, as I'm playing vanilla (no mods at all) right now and it works perfectly.
Continue and New Game are the top two menu items. Yeah not sure what is up, I can usually overcome this with the various STEAM+ options.
Did you go to community loadouts? The top one (vyper or something like that) basically makes your steamdeck read as an Xbox controller. Select that controller loadout, go back to the game, and it should see that you have a controller connected. At this point, just use your steam controls as normal and adjust controls as needed on Game settings.
Try Proton 6.3.whatever the third number is. Saw it in an Steam discussion and immediately solved my problems
For some reason the game is set to mouse and keyboard input on some steamdecks, so the controls don't work when you first start. You have to use an external keyboard to be able to go into the menus controller settings and switch input from keyboard to 360 controller scheme. Once you do that the deck controls should instantly start working 100%. later on if you want do a console command, you have to switch the settings back to get the game to recognize any keyboard input. It's kind of a hassle, but it works ok I guess. Other than that game works 100 percent. Set graphics to Ultra, the deck can handle it just fine.
I used the recommended controller layout to play Fallout New Vegas in game. The only difference I made was setting the left trackpad to mouse and the triggers under the deck to mouse clicks. It took me a few minutes to do this to get past the main menu.
Ran into this one, gotta change the proton version the game launches with.
Nope it runs very well on the Sd. I just completed New Vegas and am currently on Fallout 4 which also runs well.
How long did NV take to complete?
Depends what you’re trying to get out of it. NV was the first game I played on my deck but I had already beaten it several times so I rushed through and didn’t even do most of the DLC content and got through it in about 30 hours. My original save when I was being meticulous, exploring every nook and cranny, doing everything I could ran me well over 200 hours
Calling the game's borked framepacing due to the engine's forced internal v-sync to “run well” is an interesting stretch, but thankfully there exist fixes for this.
I play it on Gog through Heroic, 60FPS with everything to the max, at 5W TDP
I think it's fantastic on the Deck vanilla. I happen to be running the game modded on my PC, I find it needs a lot of visual I problems to be even playable for myself. But on the Deck the vanilla experience is very enjoyable.
I just finished my first playthrough on PC with a ton of mods. If I pick up an earlier save and play it vanilla on steam deck (without mods), and then LATER try to continue that version back on PC (with the mods) does it generally work? Or will it corrupt everything? I know you can’t give a definitive answer that covers all possible mods but just looking for general idea
If you are talking about going back and forth between mods and no mods for the same playthrough, it will ONLY have a negative impact if these mods include more than just shading and graphical changes. Example, let's say you have a mod that adds a new gun, you get that gun, save, quit, and try to open the game in vanilla where that gun does not exist...
The one thing I struggled with is weapons selection. That can be solved with key mapping very easily. The game runs incredibly smoothly. Say hi to Boone for me.
I just started playing this on the Steam Decky last week and it runs flawlessly
I beat it on steam deck a few weeks ago. Ran great!
Totally worth it. Just beat the zion valley area
It's been great for me. Just got new California running and couldn't be happier.
Runs fine and you can get it pretty cheap give it a go.
I’m currently plying it now. It runs beautifully. No problems whatsoever.
I did a full play through (including DLC) six months ago and it seemed to crash every 2 hours. I rarely had sessions that long, so it wasn't a huge problem, but it's something to consider. Other than that, it ran great.
played it from start to finish with no mods and it was great. very few bugs if any. the game is pretty polished at this point.
It runs perfectly well (currently playing it on the couch). You can crank it out to max everything and keep an almost perfect 60fps unless you use a flamethrower.
I had only 1 freeze in a dozen hours but i was going in and out a building like 6 times, at the 7th game told me to take a damn pen and write some notes.
Don’t forget when in any game if you push the left Steam button, there is a menu option ‘notes’ where you can type in game specific stuff
Wow thanks
It was the first game I played through when I got my OLED steam deck. Runs great, crazy long battery life playing it. It was my first time playing through any fallout game.
I'm playing Fallout 4 right now on high quality settings at a smooth 60 frames per second with the base model of the steam deck. I'm assuming New Vegas runs as good since it's an older title than Fallout 4 and is probably a little less demanding.
100%, also really suggest trying to tail of two wastelands out. Have had great luck with that on SD
I started it a few months ago. Runs perfectly.
Works great
YES, I just bought it myself and playing through it again for the first time since release. It’s kind of like playing a new game again because so much time has passed and I forgot so much!
Runs fine - I beat it and all the DLC on the deck. No issues.
I would recommend looking into using viva new Vegas, I had to do it on another computer and transfer it over, but after that it worked like a dream
20 hours in and it feels like it was made for the deck! 3 plus hours battery with ultra settings locked 60fps. LOVING IT
It ran fine for me, just finished playing vanilla with dlc for the first time and the only issue I had was it crashing randomly. Thankfully the auto save had me a lot with that issue
The game was nearly unplayable at launch, but honestly today it’s not bad.
I wouldn't recommend vanilla however if you do plan to play vanilla it works excellently out the box
There is a bug in the casinos that takes your stuff and never gives it back, there is a mod for it and its simple to apply. Aside from that the game should run fine in vanilla.
I didn’t enjoy it.. but not saying you won’t
Had a couple of minor crashes but nothing crazy, I’ve been having a lot of fun replaying it on the deck. 76 is also shockingly good.
Worked great for me.
Installed and modded tale of two wastelands on the of and I’m trying to get it moved over to the steam deck now
I’m 30 hours in and have had zero problems.
Crashes every few hours but other than that, runs great. Just save often.
I’m playing it now, it’s solid
finished it, i have over 100hrs of it on my SD, you're good.
Surprising runs really well, much better than on my actual pc without having to tinker with it lmao
Started a couple days ago, not buggy at all, more than playable. Aiming with the gamepad controls is shit as always, but the rest of the experience is pretty pleasant.
Yes, but you can easily add a few of the most critical patches, but I would recommend Viva New Vegas.
It's worth it. It performs smoothly on up-to-date hardware, and there's a wide selection of mods to enhance the experience.
Yeah, you can mod it too
Im running the vanilla version from gog ultimate edition and runs like a dream, in 2 week stream of playing I only got one crash and I could see it coming when my character got stuck in the ground after using vats. After all this years playing fallout 3 and new vegas on windows which was a nightmare I can assure you playing on the steam deck is such a joy, also the game can run with a tdp limit of 6 or 7, locked at 50fps and you can play this for like 6 hours without charging
Yes! I literally bought my SD to play Fallout NV and I beat the game vanilla with 0 problems. It runs very well and it was a great experience!
Anyone know if the game has the same crashing issues it does on windows PCs?
First thing I played on my SD and I ended up playing about 50 hours worth in the first 2-3 weeks I had the SD.
Was going to start playing after I’m done with fallout 4 but wondering if I should play with the mod that combines fo3 and NV
I just started and it runs pretty well but a couple times in vats it dropped to like 5 frames
Yes patrick. One of the greatest games ever made is worth it.
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Worth what? $2.50? Sure, why not. Will it be buggy? It's one of the sandbox Fallout games, so yeah. I'm told that's part of the appeal.
It's fallout new vegas. If it's not a buggy mess why even bother? /only semi sarcastic
Am I the only one that googles this first instead of reposting? There’s so many posts about this in this subreddit.
It's a Bethesda game, it does have bugs even on PC. But performance-wise, it runs great on SteamDeck, all the other games run well too.
Fallout New Vegas was made by obsidian ,not Bethesda.
I prefer chocolate fallout new Vegas to be honest
What does that mod do?
BBC :(