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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

There's a lot of fuss over the Starfield "Steam Deck Essentials" mod, but it keeps repeatedly massively breaking the game. Don't use it.

It breaks lighting, has broken saves etc. Not worth it.

5 Sep 2023 at 11:04 | Open on mastodon.social
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Dofain

@gamingonlinux well, what mod doesn't break a Bethesda game? :p

5 Sep 2023 at 11:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Smalls

@gamingonlinux They made a change in one of the updates for the mod that modifies the reflections config on the low setting and that is what's causing the lighting to be funky, from what I can tell.

5 Sep 2023 at 11:54 | Open on ocw.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@smalls last time I tried it, the game was nearly pitch black and i've seen numerous comments about it breaking save loading at times too

5 Sep 2023 at 11:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Smalls

@gamingonlinux Yup! If you bump reflections to medium it "fixes" the pitch black problem. I haven't ran into any save loading issues myself, but I wouldn't be surprised with some of the updates the modder has made that broke it. I really don't like the INI tweaks because, even when the lighting does work, it breaks shadows entirely.

I'm personally just using the compressed textures portion of it and I've been tweaking the INI files myself for the graphics presets separately. The compressed textures help a lot with VRAM utilization and has little impact on texture quality. At this point I'm getting Fallout 4 on console levels of performance . 😅

@gamingonlinux Yup! If you bump reflections to medium it "fixes" the pitch black problem. I haven't ran into any save loading issues myself, but I wouldn't be surprised with some of the updates the modder has made that broke it. I really don't like the INI tweaks because, even when the lighting does work, it breaks shadows entirely.

5 Sep 2023 at 12:12 | Open on ocw.social
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