A stable 30+fps, a hammock and a beer is all I really want. My PC is pretty much dedicated to light gun games or when I just want to sit of a large screen, so I'm excited this runs decent on deck otb. I'm also pretty sure pre compiled steam shaders will help when there's enough players, especially if the devs focus on optimization.
100%! I am still shocked a game this new is running as well as it is. Very happy with it, and the compromises are definitely worthwhile for portable play.
While I’m not surprised, I do wish there wasn’t as much compromise needed to play either. Still, it’s quite awesome to be able to play it on the go at all! Thank you for watching!
@@SteamDeckHQ Also just asking but did you manage to end up getting your hands on the Space Marine 2 copy from the first batch they sent to creators? Mostly hyped for it but seeing as how many things are happening at the same time on the trailers even my desktop won't be able to run it if I don't change my CPU ;- ;
Ill play it on my Ally instead of my Deck there are to many compromises im not willing to make anymore. Played to many games with bad FPS and low res on the Deck and im tired of it. At this point i should sell it and my Ally and get an Ally X.
Thanks for the settings. A big problem I always have with these kind of games is which settings and tweaks to tune the game to so that I can have the best possible experience. Didn't know I could access the BIOS on the Steam deck either.
It’s our pleasure! That’s our whole schtick is providing optimized settings after playing through the games we review. We have more on our website as well, so feel free to check it out! Changing the UMA buffer does help improve performance for some games as well, but it’s a case by case basis.
What would the implications be for other games/settings by adjusting the BIOS for Black Myth? Would it negatively impact other games to the point where you’d want to change the BIOS on a game-by-game basis?
I love how everyone all of a sudden now embraces potato graphics and 40 FPS as long as you can tie it well to a Steam Deck , at least makes gaming fun for sure. Nice review 🤟
Do these settings work for all deck types? I have the 64 LCD, and I'm averaging 29 fps both before and after applying these settings. Great vid either way.
Thank you! And they should be. The biggest difference will be temps and battery life, but power should still theoretically be the same. Are you playing from a SD card?
@@SteamDeckHQ yes. My internal storage is only 64gb, because I'm a poor. I just tried the intro, and it's a hot mess. Looks like Nimbus is fully nude from the amount of pixelation.
@@SteamDeckHQGood news! I went with recommended settings and switched display to 1280x800. Regular gameplay is 100% smooth and looks amazing! Battery life is steady. I'll need to do more intense scenes and combats to see how much it's suffering, but this is totally playable now.
Thats completely fair. The trade off is portable play, but that’s not enough for everyone. Regardless, you’ll have a great time with the game! It’s a lot of fun.
it's very detailed that's why. the buffer and cryo utilities are a one time thing that works for most heavy games. then the in game settings are really classical for a pc game. but yeah pc gaming requires a little more configuration than console gaming for sure.
I was extremely surprised this game ran so well on my deck and so badly on my computer and PS5 it's crazy lol I was able to get stable 45 frames with Double FSR going and cryoutilites in the normal basic version. also for some reason limiting the TDP to 14 or maxing it forced at 15 I think was helping for some reason.
Well, I just changed my UMA buffer size and installed Cryo and used recommended settings. Now I just have to wait for it to go live and I can change the in-game settings as well. Thanks for the quick tutorial! By the way, the konsole command is 'passwd', I tried 'password' at first and it didn't work.
I tested this game on my Steamdeck, i think SteamOS framerate limiter and the the framerate limiter in game both have some problems when frame generation on, but still can get about 30fps when turn off the frame generation. The benchmark tool has some differences to the game.
We did a full review already! This is our full review of the Steam Deck performance, but if you’d like to read about the content, you can head to our written review: steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/black-myth-wukong/
Thanks for the review❤ Someone say the choices of normal game settings are different from the benchmark test. Is it true? I want to turn off the Depth of Field Effect, but this option is not enable in the benchmark test. 😢
Here's how I'll play this game on Steam Deck: I'll get the immersive and great experience with my PC for the first run or two, and if I really like the game and decide to complete it 100% and grind it out, I could see myself doing that on my Deck.
That’s great way to do it! I’d say you could use the deck to grind for your first run or two as well since it cloud saves (but doesn’t cloud save the settings).
if you switch to DX11, it turns off lumen getting you more performance. you are on Dx12 so you may get some extra performance that you can use to boost the res up.
Forcing DX11 through launch arguments stops the game from running entirely. We will test if there’s a way around it, but currently, just putting in the -dx11 launch option stops it from launching completely.
Enabling in-game v-sync combined with the Deck's FPS cap for some reason reduces input lag compared to using just the Deck limiter with v-sync off. No idea why this is the case but I've been "exploiting" this for a while in games without a better way of capping FPS.
Interesting. It shouldn’t work theoretically since this doubles the v-sync, but I’ll test it out. Though just doing the in-game limiter had almost no discernible input lag for me!
I'm hopeful the performance will only get better as time comes since the developers will get information with players providing data/reports through the week. hopefully this will be enough to dramatically improve BMW's performance for the Steamdeck specifically.
Did you try the mangohud launch parameter to limit the fps? Sometimes that’s better than the in game fps limiter and induces less input lag than the steam overlay fps limiter. Just curious if that would help smooth out the frame timing at all or if they actually implemented the in game fps limiter well.
Hey really like your video. I running into an issue. I followed your directions and I can’t even get the game to launch any advice on how I can fix it?
It depends what you prioritize. I prefer portable play when possible, so I’d choose the Deck. But if you want a better visual or higher framerate experience, PS5.
No no. You open up the Konsole and type in “passwd” which allows you to set up an admin password for Linux. Apologies, we will show and explain better next time!
We test our games with the stock/default settings as that’s what the majority of people are using. XeSS has different issues and worse performance compared to FSR. It does look a little better, but harder to hold 30.
@@SteamDeckHQ No i meant what Unreal Engine version did the game ship with (ex: 5.1,5.2?), you can look at it by going to the game directory in desktop mode and clicking properties on the game.
Not sure about Uniscaler yet, but frame gen under 60 feels very stuttery. And there are a lot of areas that will go under 60, especially in boss fights.
I'd rather use the steam decks 30fps limiter and get even frame pacing even if it introduces input lag. Input lag is much better than that uncontested mess of a frame time you'll get with the in game limit
I followed every setting to the t, and it still looked incredibly blurry on the steamdeck. I couldn't even get through the first fight because of how bad it was. Even turning every setting up to max, the blurriness would not go away. I refunded the game because it was unplayable.
@@SteamDeckHQ Tbh, having seen the benchmarks for PC after this video, holy moly. It’s really impressive that this game runs at all at a stable framerate on steamdeck. If you wanna play higher than 1080p and enjoy rtx and all that jazz unless you got a 4080+ card, you’re out of luck. And the ps5 version hasn’t even been handed out to reviewers yet. Smells like Cyberpunk 2077. But the game itself seems to be good, so at least that very important bit is cleared.
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Great review! Nice to know it can run on the SD. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!!
Very jealous you got it early, at least we know it runs now, thanks
Thank you so much for making this!
Thank you for watching!! We are glad we got the opportunity as well, it’s amazing really.
Thank you so much for this review and expanding on the performance. I’m glad to hear this runs well on the deck! Can’t wait for launch.
Thank you for watching! It’s awesome how well it runs for the type of game and how new it is. It’ll be a great experience for sure!
A stable 30+fps, a hammock and a beer is all I really want.
My PC is pretty much dedicated to light gun games or when I just want to sit of a large screen, so I'm excited this runs decent on deck otb. I'm also pretty sure pre compiled steam shaders will help when there's enough players, especially if the devs focus on optimization.
It’s probably going to get better to some degree, so I think it’ll be a very comfortable way to play.
Love performance reviews for the deck! Well done!
Expect more soon! We got some big games coming that we hope to get review copies of. We do have 1 already as well :D
Thank you so much for your prompty review. Looking forward to giving it a go!
Great review! Sounds like you had a great time with the game, very happy it plays on the Deck even with compromises 🐒
100%! I am still shocked a game this new is running as well as it is. Very happy with it, and the compromises are definitely worthwhile for portable play.
@@SteamDeckHQHow good do u think run ps5 since their no reviews on it right now
It’s tough to call, but I think it’ll run decently well if we can make modifications.
Damn, I was hoping that the game wouldn't be this heavy but still, being able to play on deck is great, thanks for the settings tips!
While I’m not surprised, I do wish there wasn’t as much compromise needed to play either. Still, it’s quite awesome to be able to play it on the go at all! Thank you for watching!
@@SteamDeckHQ Also just asking but did you manage to end up getting your hands on the Space Marine 2 copy from the first batch they sent to creators? Mostly hyped for it but seeing as how many things are happening at the same time on the trailers even my desktop won't be able to run it if I don't change my CPU ;- ;
the fact that this game runs on the steam deck is fantastic! this is the way! Thanks for this great vid!
Thank you for watching! There’s definitely more on the way :D
Thank you for this! We appreciate you ❤️
I'm holding off till the end of the month to get the game, but I'm definitely following this guide when I do get it. The gameplay looks really smooth.
For the type of game it is, I’d say it’s great! Definitely won’t be perfect, but playable? For sure.
Thank you for the review and discussion about the performance.
Sounds like it’s safe to purchase to play on my steam deck! Awesome review!
It is a bit of a compromise, but I would say you will have a good experience where it really matters!!
Knowing it's playable on steam deck is so much a relief to me.
Right? I was worried, but getting it to a playable 30 FPS with it still looking decent is a perfect compromise for portable play!
Ill play it on my Ally instead of my Deck there are to many compromises im not willing to make anymore. Played to many games with bad FPS and low res on the Deck and im tired of it. At this point i should sell it and my Ally and get an Ally X.
@@riomendoza1111 you still compromise on Ally/Ally X, no real reason to switch when you have a PC to remote into with a Steam Deck anyway.
I wouldn't call it playable. It looks very terrible and the framerate drops a lot.
@@alexh7513 unfortunately yes it is the case. It's technically playable. I beat 4 bosses of chapter 1. But lag is unbearable. I ordered a PS5 already.
Nice review! Hoping to hop on this adventure soon
Thanks for the review
I expect a lot of things from the game.
Thanks for the settings. A big problem I always have with these kind of games is which settings and tweaks to tune the game to so that I can have the best possible experience. Didn't know I could access the BIOS on the Steam deck either.
It’s our pleasure! That’s our whole schtick is providing optimized settings after playing through the games we review. We have more on our website as well, so feel free to check it out!
Changing the UMA buffer does help improve performance for some games as well, but it’s a case by case basis.
@@SteamDeckHQThanks. I didn't know about the UMA. Gonna watch the Shadow of the Erdtree video too. I wanna know the best settings for it.
What would the implications be for other games/settings by adjusting the BIOS for Black Myth? Would it negatively impact other games to the point where you’d want to change the BIOS on a game-by-game basis?
Thanks for the settings tip!
Thank you for watching! We are always happy to help.
Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to seeing a gameified version of Journey to the West. 😁
I’m just shock it launches on SD let alone getting around 30 fps lol
We were too! I’d consider that a success.
Very enjoyable on deck, very complete review
Love the review!!! Keep it up!!
Myth Wukong is playable on deck! Good to know
That it is!
I love how everyone all of a sudden now embraces potato graphics and 40 FPS as long as you can tie it well to a Steam Deck , at least makes gaming fun for sure. Nice review 🤟
You was born post master system and it shows
Love this review great to know I can get when it comes on steam. Would love you to review Star wars Jedi Survivor on the deck
We will get to it soon to celebrate Outlaws coming!
Can’t wait to play this great review
Thank you!
Downloaded for SD and now downloading for my PC
Thank you very much ✅
Excellent Review 💯
Thank you! This was also our first BIG video review, and we have more in the pipeline!
It's monkey madness season!
Yes, yes it is!
Do these settings work for all deck types? I have the 64 LCD, and I'm averaging 29 fps both before and after applying these settings.
Great vid either way.
Thank you! And they should be. The biggest difference will be temps and battery life, but power should still theoretically be the same.
Are you playing from a SD card?
@@SteamDeckHQ yes. My internal storage is only 64gb, because I'm a poor. I just tried the intro, and it's a hot mess. Looks like Nimbus is fully nude from the amount of pixelation.
@@SteamDeckHQGood news! I went with recommended settings and switched display to 1280x800.
Regular gameplay is 100% smooth and looks amazing! Battery life is steady. I'll need to do more intense scenes and combats to see how much it's suffering, but this is totally playable now.
Decided to go ps5 when I learned that there are 10 steps just to get to game run in 30 fps
Thats completely fair. The trade off is portable play, but that’s not enough for everyone. Regardless, you’ll have a great time with the game! It’s a lot of fun.
it's very detailed that's why.
the buffer and cryo utilities are a one time thing that works for most heavy games.
then the in game settings are really classical for a pc game.
but yeah pc gaming requires a little more configuration than console gaming for sure.
I was extremely surprised this game ran so well on my deck and so badly on my computer and PS5 it's crazy
lol
I was able to get stable 45 frames with Double FSR going and cryoutilites in the normal basic version. also for some reason limiting the TDP to 14 or maxing it forced at 15 I think was helping for some reason.
Do you recommend to just leave the ram buffer at 4gb for all steam programs, or to reset it to default when done playing Wukong?
There are some games that benefit, but some that also get worse. I’d say keep it to 1G for most games, but if you encounter RAM issues, it could help.
@@SteamDeckHQ thank you
I’ll wait a month at least for an update or two and then get it , glad it plays tho ❤️❤️❤️
That’s smart to do!
Great to know! I hope the official version will have a font size option, because when running the test tool, the font is too small to read.
I don’t find any font unreadable, but it is a little small. I didn’t see any font size option in settings.
Thanks for replying, I hope the official version will add this option, which will improve the experience of running it on steamdeck.
Nice review
Amazing
wonder if there are any patches to the game by now, and if that affected these results
Well, I just changed my UMA buffer size and installed Cryo and used recommended settings. Now I just have to wait for it to go live and I can change the in-game settings as well. Thanks for the quick tutorial! By the way, the konsole command is 'passwd', I tried 'password' at first and it didn't work.
Perfect video
I tested this game on my Steamdeck, i think SteamOS framerate limiter and the the framerate limiter in game both have some problems when frame generation on, but still can get about 30fps when turn off the frame generation. The benchmark tool has some differences to the game.
Awesome gameplay
Wanted to buy it day 1 for my SD
But I’ll wait for the full review
We did a full review already! This is our full review of the Steam Deck performance, but if you’d like to read about the content, you can head to our written review:
steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/black-myth-wukong/
@@SteamDeckHQ thank you so much ! Great article
So Its playable on SD, that's nice to know
It needs some compromises, but yes it is!
Sounds good.
Consistent 30fps for a game of this scale and visual fidelity,on a handheld is fine compromise.
We couldn’t agree more!! And can’t forget the gorgeous OLED screen too. All worth it in our opinion.
Thanks for this giveaway I like your content for the steam deck great :)
Nice!
We think so too!
Thanks for the review❤
Someone say the choices of normal game settings are different from the benchmark test. Is it true?
I want to turn off the Depth of Field Effect, but this option is not enable in the benchmark test. 😢
Did everything here and still getting way below 30 FPS after first opening scene, any idea what I can do to fix?
Here's how I'll play this game on Steam Deck:
I'll get the immersive and great experience with my PC for the first run or two, and if I really like the game and decide to complete it 100% and grind it out, I could see myself doing that on my Deck.
That’s great way to do it! I’d say you could use the deck to grind for your first run or two as well since it cloud saves (but doesn’t cloud save the settings).
Tx for the chance
Looks great.
For what it is, I’d say it’s pretty damn good!
if you switch to DX11, it turns off lumen getting you more performance. you are on Dx12 so you may get some extra performance that you can use to boost the res up.
Forcing DX11 through launch arguments stops the game from running entirely. We will test if there’s a way around it, but currently, just putting in the -dx11 launch option stops it from launching completely.
@@SteamDeckHQ damn, on windows end i was able to get a performance boost. Thanks for testing it
Thank you, i was so worried that BMW would run poorly on deck but after your vid, i think i can play BMW on my bed
I would say so! We do hope future patches and SteamOS 3.6 help it, but at least it can still be played!
@@SteamDeckHQ 30 fps with low-mid graphic setting on deck screen is really great for anyone who wants quick, convenient experience.
Truth! And with cloud saves, it’s a good way to grind in between sessions on the desktop.
If you guys don’t mind doing a little reading, overlocking with this title looks like the way to go. I can see this keeping a very consistent 30fps
It’s definitely possible!
@@SteamDeckHQ I’m excited for the patches they push out in the next few weeks
Enabling in-game v-sync combined with the Deck's FPS cap for some reason reduces input lag compared to using just the Deck limiter with v-sync off. No idea why this is the case but I've been "exploiting" this for a while in games without a better way of capping FPS.
Interesting. It shouldn’t work theoretically since this doubles the v-sync, but I’ll test it out. Though just doing the in-game limiter had almost no discernible input lag for me!
I'm hopeful the performance will only get better as time comes since the developers will get information with players providing data/reports through the week. hopefully this will be enough to dramatically improve BMW's performance for the Steamdeck specifically.
That would be amazing. I hope so too
Nice one !
Thank you!
I give it a try on the steam deck plus the Lenovo go … hope performance is good enough
A manual gpu clock should be set to help the 1% lows on this title.
I went to upgrade my OS... and landed with 3.7 instead of 3.6? will this matter?
I bet 2 weeks from now after some patches itll run smooth on the regular
That would be awesome! Here’s hoping.
Did you try the mangohud launch parameter to limit the fps? Sometimes that’s better than the in game fps limiter and induces less input lag than the steam overlay fps limiter. Just curious if that would help smooth out the frame timing at all or if they actually implemented the in game fps limiter well.
We didn’t feel much of a difference when we tried, but I will test it again just in case!
How of these changed affect playing other games? New to stems deck
ty💘
Im curious how i can be able to teak it on the rog ally and use the lossless scaling app
It’ll probably be much more stable and could have better fidelity or higher framerate.
looking good on steamdeck 🔥🔥
nice video bro
Thank you!
Hey really like your video. I running into an issue. I followed your directions and I can’t even get the game to launch any advice on how I can fix it?
The game won’t launch at all? Hmm…are you using any launch options by chance?
@@SteamDeckHQ not at all. Maybe the download went wrong idk but thanks for the reply
If you could choose, what version would you get? The Deck or PS5?
It depends what you prioritize. I prefer portable play when possible, so I’d choose the Deck. But if you want a better visual or higher framerate experience, PS5.
Geforcenow plus steamdeck plus wukong 👌
Im so confused when it comes to the password part ?
it wont take my password. do i need to go to there site and make a account or something ?
No no. You open up the Konsole and type in “passwd” which allows you to set up an admin password for Linux. Apologies, we will show and explain better next time!
Nice 🎉
Thank you!
On lcd model the slower ram makes it waaay more unstable in fps...sad
When your talking about the steamdeck you mean the lcd or oled or both?
Generally both, but the bulk of our testing is on OLED.
You didn’t link the cryo utilities :(
Shoot! That’s my bad. I’ll link it in a moment (just got off our flight to Gamescom).
@@SteamDeckHQ Hey no worries thanks for acknowledging my comment haha.
Have a good time at Gamescom buddy
Runs better then the Xbox...
Does it actually?!?
@@SteamDeckHQ It won't even be released yet lol. It will just release for PC and PS5. XBOX release date is still pending.
Series x will have best console performance easily 😬😎…..
@Mcfigg Sure, instead of dropping to the low 20s it will drop to the high 20s at 1080p with FSR.
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Hey, which version of UE5 is being used? Is it 5.3? Why not use XeSS? Also why aren't you using SteamOS 3.6 which has better performance?
We test our games with the stock/default settings as that’s what the majority of people are using. XeSS has different issues and worse performance compared to FSR. It does look a little better, but harder to hold 30.
@@SteamDeckHQ No i meant what Unreal Engine version did the game ship with (ex: 5.1,5.2?), you can look at it by going to the game directory in desktop mode and clicking properties on the game.
Apologies! I was answering the other questions first. I’ll check UE5 version in a little bit and get back to you.
@@SteamDeckHQ Thanks, you're an angel man.
@@SteamDeckHQ Did you forget about me.
thanks
Big thanks
Wow….this is absolutely a middle finger called out toward Dragon Dogma 2 to me personally. An L for capcom but a W to Black Myth.
How about using uniscaler and fame generation?
Not sure about Uniscaler yet, but frame gen under 60 feels very stuttery. And there are a lot of areas that will go under 60, especially in boss fights.
@@SteamDeckHQ I thought frame generation works if a game is above 30 🤔
I'd rather use the steam decks 30fps limiter and get even frame pacing even if it introduces input lag. Input lag is much better than that uncontested mess of a frame time you'll get with the in game limit
Maybe for some, and that’s what’s so great about having options, but the input lag was definitely noticeable and resulted in more deaths.
The graphics looks really bad, but it's still impressive that it can run on the Steam Deck!!
That’s completely fair! Lots of compromise, but it’s definitely playable!
❤
What's the intention for CryoUtilities?
It artificially adds more RAM, so there won’t be crashes if it hits the max 16GB RAM.
Cryo is pretty useless now especially on 3.6 onwards, steamOS does most of what cryo does now on its own
We will take a look once SteamOS 3.6 is in stable, but since we feel most people stay on stable, we try to stick to that branch.
@@SteamDeckHQ sounds good!
Good!
Most....not all. So your comment is the one that is useless
@@billyjoel5008 not rly, there’s literally negligible difference if any for the amount of storage cryo takes up with swapiness.
Nice so the game should be good to go on a linux pc! 🎉
if it could run on steam deck then it definitely could run on ps5
because the settings were all turned down to low.
It does run on PS5...
nice
I followed every setting to the t, and it still looked incredibly blurry on the steamdeck. I couldn't even get through the first fight because of how bad it was. Even turning every setting up to max, the blurriness would not go away. I refunded the game because it was unplayable.
For me personally too blurry and too much aliasing.
But for the Deck still a way to play if PS5 and PC isn’t an option.
Completely understandable. It’s a LOT of compromise. It’s great that it works, but there’s still a lot to sacrifice to make it work.
@@SteamDeckHQ
Tbh, having seen the benchmarks for PC after this video, holy moly.
It’s really impressive that this game runs at all at a stable framerate on steamdeck.
If you wanna play higher than 1080p and enjoy rtx and all that jazz unless you got a 4080+ card, you’re out of luck.
And the ps5 version hasn’t even been handed out to reviewers yet.
Smells like Cyberpunk 2077.
But the game itself seems to be good, so at least that very important bit is cleared.
Do you think Space Marines 2 will run?
I really hope so. It does have FSR 3, so I am on the optimistic side.
How do you change resolution
Display settings!
Shocked this runs as well as it does honestly it's pretty demanding
Does it have problems after 1st part?
Not problems, but it does get a bit more intense on performance after the first chapters.
Is this like a dark souls game ?
game looking good not gonna lie
It’s all worth it for portable play. Insane being able to play this in the palm of my hands.