Broken Async Compute in Wolfenstein II The New Colossus

[urbangangsta101]

Steam Deck OLED
Steam OS v3.8.16
OS Build 20260716.1
Steam Client Version 1784778118

• Opted into Steam client beta?: [No]
• Opted into SteamOS beta?: [No]
• Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Install Wolfenstein II The New Colossus from Steam (note: Public version has not been updated since 2018. Latest public beta also hasn't been updated since 2018) no changes to proton, just allow it to use what steam assigns it.
2. Ensure Async compute is enabled in the advanced graphics options.
3. Play game and observe the horrendous shimmering/tearing. It looks like Vsync is not enabled and tearing in the vertical axis. Shimmering/ghosting on characters and hard edges. No amount of Vsync and frame limiting making any difference. Disabling Async compute looks to have solved it but the game is about 20fps worse off as a result. This has always worked fine but has stopped working since updating to SteamOS 3.8. Tried proton hot fix, proton experimental, proton 5.13-6 and GE-Proton - problem still persists

[simifor]

@urbangangsta101 no luck getting it to happen on my end initially. As far as game branches go it looks like normal and beta branches were left the same so it shouldn't make a difference choosing either of them. I tried with default game settings (which has async on) and then also without motion blur off just in case it could be masking the issue, but I didn't notice tearing.

Please share our full video and graphics settings in the game as well as deck's QAM performance options (the menu that appears when pressing ...). Is there a difference between game mode and desktop mode? are you using the builtin display?

[urbangangsta101]

Ok I will record a video later today. It is the same in desktop mode. I don't have any per-game profile set and the default profile settings haven't been adjusted.

It doesn't matter what in-game graphics settings I use, if Async compute is enabled it's a mess. It's probably not as noticeable when you are in game, but it's there...

The scene right after the first mission (the bit where you are captured and they kill a character with an axe) it's really noticeable, as soon as the camera turns around to face the main villain, there are glitches around her head and the people in the background and there is a lot of tearing when you move the camera around during the scene.

If i disable Async compute, the scene looks correct but the framerate is terrible

[urbangangsta101]

@simifor I have uploaded a video of the issue here:

https://youtu.be/lUMP1_CbdUI