Godot 4.1 takes ~1 minute to load on the Steam Deck.

[TheFoxKnocks]

Godot version

v4.1.stable.official [9704596]

System information

Godot v4.1.stable - Windows 10.0.19044 - Vulkan (Compatibility) - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (NVIDIA; 31.0.15.3179) - 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900KF (24 Threads)

Issue description

Even when creating a fresh project that only has a single Label in it and nothing else, the project will hang at a black screen on the Steam Deck for roughly 1 minute until it finally loads.

This isn't normal, because I have the Steam info overlay also enabled, which does this weird thing where it hangs in the middle of the left side of the screen while this black screen is present, then moves snugly to the top-left where it should be once the black screen is gone.

Other games on the Steam Deck do not do this. This is not a hardware issue.

I have tried both with using GodotSteam and without. It doesn't change anything. The load time is very long and it hangs in a way that is unexpected.

The project opens up quickly in the Editor, when exported as a .EXE, and when played through Steam via the Steam application on PC. This issue is exclusively when playing the project on a Steam Deck.

The project must be ran in Compatibility mode. Forward+ causes it to sometimes crash without warning on the Steam Deck.

Steps to reproduce

Create new project.

Export into Steamworks.

Run game on the Steam Deck.

Minimal reproduction project

Shouldn't be necessary. Seriously any new project will do this.

[Calinou]

• Does this occur on subsequent project starts, or only the first start? See Display text on the splash screen on initial startup to indicate that shaders will be cached godot-proposals#3657.
• Can you reproduce this with the Steam overlay disabled?
• Can you reproduce this when running the project as a non-Steam application on the Deck (e.g. using desktop mode)?

[TheFoxKnocks]

• Does this occur on subsequent project starts, or only the first start? See Display text on the splash screen on initial startup to indicate that shaders will be cached godot-proposals#3657.

  • Can you reproduce this with the Steam overlay disabled?

  • Can you reproduce this when running the project as a non-Steam application on the Deck (e.g. using desktop mode)?

This happens always. If I run the game, let it load, close it, and run it again, it'll still take the same amount of time to open.

Turning off the overlay doesn't change anything (in fact I reset my Steam back to default just to be sure).

Desktop mode has no difference. It'll display a black box, cursor becomes unresponsive until it loads.

[Anutrix]

Steam Deck uses Wayland afaik, so it could be Godot and/or Wayland related issue.
These might be helpful:
#78487
#78581

[TheFoxKnocks]

Steam Deck uses Wayland afaik, so it could be Godot and/or Wayland related issue. These might be helpful: #78487 #78581

Thanks, so this is probably a 4.x issue then. Other Godot games do not hang like this, but I think they're all 3.x.

That's unfortunate, but I guess something I'll just have to accept as a current downside to Godot.

[sonic2kk]

Just checked my Steam Deck and the KDE Plasma Desktop session still uses X11 according to Info Center (running on the Beta channel so not sure if there's a difference in Preview).

[Calinou]

Can you reproduce this if you enable Single Window Mode in the Editor Settings, then restart the editor?

[TheFoxKnocks]

Can you reproduce this if you enable Single Window Mode in the Editor Settings, then restart the editor?

This issue is irrelevant to the Editor and exists when the game is published.

[mhilbrunner]

A data point: We seem to be failing to reproduce this so far with a 4.1 project on Steam Deck.

[stalkerg]

For SteamDeck you should create a native Linux build.