hephaistos VS atelier-sync-fix

Quick tip, you can install this in Desktop mode (it's an easy process) to make Hades fill the entire Steam Deck screen (without black bars on top and bottom). It looks even better that way.

You can run it in 16:10 using this https://github.com/nbusseneau/hephaistos

With this small mod from github

The game is locked in 16/9 aspect ratio though, I recommend you use Hephaistos if you’d like to run it without black bars on the computer’s internal display :)

Hephaistos mod author here. The issue happens because your monitor reports back too many supported resolution to the game, and the list of resolutions available gets trimmed to 9.

The game doesnt properly support the deck's resolution so it's letterboxed, but there is a mod to change that if it bothers you: https://github.com/nbusseneau/hephaistos

The repo has instructions for Linux/Steam Deck: https://github.com/nbusseneau/hephaistos

Download the Atelier Sync Fix from here [https://github.com/doitsujin/atelier-sync-fix](https://github.com/doitsujin/atelier-sync-fix) or use the attached file to improve performance.

1.) Make sure that you have this downloaded. This will greatly fix your performance with not only Ryza 1 but the rest of the secret series and other Gust titles as well. To install it, you download and unzip the atfix.zip in that link and place the file in your game's install folder. To do this, open Steam, right click on whatever game you're trying to fix, Properties --> Local files --> Browse. Then drop the .dll in that directory.

GE Proton 7-54 and atelier sync fix.

Are you using https://github.com/doitsujin/atelier-sync-fix?

Here is the fix. It was created by someone who works with Valve -- the guy who made DXVK, which Proton and the Steam Deck relies upon. He made this fix that works for various Atelier games: https://github.com/doitsujin/atelier-sync-fix/releases

https://github.com/doitsujin/atelier-sync-fix/releases - This will nearly double the framerates on the Steam Deck for Atelier Ryza 1, 2, 3 and Sophie 2.

Overall had a good experience with both and with the doitsujin fix, CryoUtilities, and refresh rate set to 50hz they ran well on deck, but I think between the two of them I like Hideout better than Fairy. The story just felt like had more going on. The side story stuff in Fairy was much better but the overall not much actually happens in the game. I did like combat way better in Fairy though.