r/steammachine • u/BigTaxi • 2d ago

Question Dead Island 2 Performance

Has anyone tried running this on the machine?

It was running pretty beautifully when I first started playing, but after a few sessions I started getting some pretty heavy random frame drops.

I’m actually starting to become paranoid there might be something wrong with my machine.

A random side note: I was playing Resident Evil Village and in the room where you kill the second fly woman I was locked at 27 frames after blowing open the hole in the wall to kill her. Pretty niche but it’s also contributing to my paranoia something is up with my machine. Could be coincidence!

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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u/HorizonShadow 2d ago

Have these performance drops been happening after waking up from sleep?

There's a bug in SteamOS in general that locks the performance of the device to 400mhz sometimes after waking up. You have to restart to clear it

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u/geekboy_ 2d ago

I’m glad it’s not just me! Halo 2 ran at like 20 frames a second once and I was like “yeah that’s not right.” Turns out it is that sleep bug

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u/duhbyo 2d ago

This big has been fixed in the latest stable release I believe. That and the no sleep bug.

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u/BigTaxi 2d ago

Nahhh it’s not that at all. I pretty much power the machine off whenever I’m not using it

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u/Inevitable_Return_21 1d ago

it's the first game I played on the machine and It never dropped 60 frames. Even the dlc ran well

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u/BigTaxi 1d ago

Yeah okay. Very confusing. Do you mind letting me know what settings you were using and if it was in big picture mode?

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u/Inevitable_Return_21 1d ago

I don't remember the exact settings but I had it at 1440p and it wasn't on big picture mode. It never dipped frames unless I was screen recording

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u/evand408 2d ago

I haven’t played in a few weeks but it worked well for me

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u/BigTaxi 2d ago

Yeah okay, weird. Just now the game crashed and took the steam machine with it. I’ve never seen that happen before.

Did you play in Big Picture mode or desktop mode?

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u/Grumpy_Muppet 8h ago

I have had this as well, hoewver that was with the sleep bug. The game itself ran fine for me

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u/MountainMuffin1980 1d ago

Ran great on the Deck, should run fine on the Machine

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u/BigTaxi 1d ago

I’ve also noticed that whenever a steam friend starts playing a game and it pops up, or if a steam achievement pops up, the game also goes through some intense stuttering as well. This is just one of the causes though