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Fix Slowdown/Freezing on Steam Deck after the March 2025 Update

By Captain Hammer

This is a quick/easy fix that will prevent slowdown and freezing on the steam deck.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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10 Apr @ 3:27pm

11 Apr @ 8:14am

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Overview

Step 1

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Conclusion

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Step 1

1. Click on the Manage wheel for Control Ultimate Edition.

Step 2

2. Click on Properties.

Step 3

3. Under Launch Options, type "-dx11" (without the quotation marks)

Conclusion

That's it. Your game should hopefully no longer slowdown/freeze anymore on the Steam Deck.

3 Comments

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BILLIONAIRES EAT POOP 29 May @ 7:04pm

its pretty crazy that they havent fixed this yet

Stella 25 May @ 1:24pm

Thank you, this really helped. I was wondering why VRAM usage was so high and performance was poor. Apparently they sneakily switched it to DX12 with the update

Hendo.exe 6 May @ 12:27am

I only had this problem when I went back to executive to do Bureau Alerts but this did fix it!

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