God of War constantly crashes (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by pathief@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hi friends.

Ever since God of War was released on the PS4, I wanted to play it. Loved the original trilogy, wanted to give this one a go.

Since God of War has a "Verified" badge I ended up buying it. Unfortunately the experience has been really really bad. The game crashes every 10-20 minutes. The steam deck (OLED) completely freezes and I have to hard reboot the device.

I've googled about this issue, everyone seems to point at these graphical settings and some others but none seem to work.

I've tried several Proton versions, with and without GE but also no luck. The game crashes a lot. It's disappointing that the game has the "Verified" badge but is basically unplayable. No other game has ever given me any trouble.

Anyone had this problem and managed to get it to work? Thanks.

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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

God of War has a memory leak, which would cause me to crash every 30min to 1hr. The deck would completely lock up as the game used every bit of memory available, requiring a hard reset. You can tell if this is the issue by watching your ram+vram use while playing, the deck has 16GB of memory and 1GB of swap by default, so the deck will crash when the memory leak reaches about 17GB of displayed RAM + VRAM.

What worked for me at the time was using Cryoutilities to increase my swap size, which let the deck handle the growing memory demands. I set mine to 16GB, but 4GB or 8GB would probably be ok. Alternatively you can switch to the beta version of SteamOS, which uses ZRAM instead of swap. I haven't tried it, but this should work as well for fixing the crashes.

[-] ValueAdd@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Plus 1 to Cryoutilities. I tried everything and only once I had that installed GoW played smoothly with no crashes.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Do you have vsync off? Probably not the culprit since it's a crash, but I frequently get odd performance issues on the OLED model with Vsync on.

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, it's off :(

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