Title. I have the game on Steam, it worked fine until the latest EA app update. Now the game hard crashes my steam deck during random loading screens. I play for a while then the game crashes and I have to restart my steam deck with the power button.
Pls fix this
What update is this? Still not working here.
I am back after attempting to play the game on two separate occasions. I was able to put in 3.5 hrs on the first and 4 on the second. The game crashed twice on the first occasion when trying to enter my load. The second occasion, surprisingly no crashes. The game always runs smooth. This entire fandom feed came together because of the crashes on Steam Deck which I believe has become limited to where mostly every user should be able to get into the gameplay fine. If you crash, try again as it's bound to actually work. I found clicking start instead of resume helped. I found loading the game from the menu to the save I have saved manual helped as well. There is no need to force any proton as it should run excellent on Steam Deck. I would love to hear other people's input as I believe the update has helped improve the situation we all came here to voice our opinion about. Thanks EA for listening
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I am back after attempting to play the game on two separate occasions. I was able to put in 3.5 hrs on the first and 4 on the second. The game crashed twice on the first occasion when trying to enter my load. The second occasion, surprisingly no crashes. The game always runs smooth. This entire fandom feed came together because of the crashes on Steam Deck which I believe has become limited to where mostly every user should be able to get into the gameplay fine. If you crash, try again as it's bound to actually work. I found clicking start instead of resume helped. I found loading the game from the menu to the save I have saved manual helped as well. There is no need to force any proton as it should run excellent on Steam Deck. I would love to hear other people's input as I believe the update has helped improve the situation we all came here to voice our opinion about. Thanks EA for listening
This is good. If you are still having an issue with the Steam Deck and have followed the above, or simply performed a reinstall and still having issues, please post with the following
Same here. Game worked fine until a few weeks ago, now hard locks my steam deck partway through startup of ME1. There’s discussions about this on the Steam forums as well.
For me EA App's latest version also hard crashes for proton with Sims 4. Hilariously, Sims 4 starts up fine sometimes if the App crashes just moments late enough, but then complains it can't do half the stuff due to EA App crashing. That the entire game works but only this app doesn't speaks volumes, in my opinion.
Why can't EA just test EA App on Proton and Steam Deck before pushing out updates that break everything? Especially since the games are usually fine, so when using Steam around it anyway with EA App nothing but a glorified wrapper this seems particularly sad and maddening.
@simon7109I just solved it, run the game on offlinemode
