GTA V Enhanced really runs higher on Steam Deck, when you repair the annoying launch situation

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Rockstar Video games lately launched GTA V Enhanced, an upgraded model of the unique Grand Theft Auto V that brings extremely requested options beforehand unique to the PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S variations. This contains visible upgrades reminiscent of ray tracing, ray-traced shadows, and reflections, together with further in-game content material like new autos, challenges, subscriptions, and extra.

Regardless of introducing these demanding options, GTA V Enhanced seems to supply even higher efficiency than the unique GTA V (now referred to as GTA V Legacy). In actual fact, even Steam Deck house owners can benefit from the sport in any respect presets, whether or not utilizing upscaling, excessive graphics settings, and even excessive ray tracing. Nevertheless, whereas nearly all of gamers are having a blast, some are encountering issues when attempting to launch the Rockstar Video games Launcher model on the Valve handheld.

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Can’t launch the sport on Steam Deck? Use this launch choice

This comes from Reddit, the place customers are reporting points when attempting to run the Rockstar Video games Launcher model of the sport on their Steam Deck. Thankfully, there are a couple of workarounds that customers have recommended to attempt, with one being to place the “-onSteamDeck” command within the Rockstar Launcher itself; that is positioned in sport launch choices.

If the sport nonetheless crashes after this, one other repair is to disable AMD FSR 3, as some imagine that’s what’s inflicting the crashes within the first place. Now, this both appears to be a bizarre bug with FSR 3 or a problem with the sport itself, so fingers crossed for a patch from Rockstar Video games to handle this quickly.

Runs like a allure on the Steam Deck

When you handle to run the sport utilizing these workarounds, the remainder of the expertise is fairly strong, particularly for Steam Deck customers who, after seeing the poor optimization and demanding nature of the lately launched Monster Hunter Wilds, have been having a tough time.

As we mentioned earlier than, even with ray tracing results set to excessive, the sport nonetheless manages to ship a greater than playable expertise, averaging 35-40 FPS with no drops beneath 30, even in intense conditions like explosions, gunfights, automobile chases, and extra. That is in accordance with Deck Wizard on YouTube, who has been testing the sport following its Enhanced improve.

Nevertheless, earlier than really getting the coveted ‘Verified’ badge, you’ll want to do not forget that GTA On-line nonetheless doesn’t work on the Deck (or different Linux machines) because of the BattlEye anti-cheat being launched to the sport round six months in the past. This basically lower help for GTA:O on the Steam Deck, inflicting participant numbers on the hand-held to plummet. Fortunately, you’ll be able to nonetheless play singleplayer.