Atomic Heart’s graphics options have gone mysteriously missing on the Steam Deck

rockpapershotgun.com:

A most peculiar quandary has befallen Atomic Heart players on the Steam Deck, though mayhaps not to the extent that it’s worth writing like a knockoff Sherlock Holmes for any more of this article. Basically, the display and graphics settings have gone missing, leaving the Sovietpunk FPS without any means of resolution or visual quality adjustments.

Players first noticed the disappearance back in April, following Atomic Heart’s 1.4.0.0 update. Developers Mundfish quickly took note, promising on reddit to investigate and that the issue "should be fixed in [the] next patch". However, as of the most recent 1.6.0.0 update – which only released yesterday, May 16th – the absent menus have still yet to return to waiting Steam Decks.

The options menus are all present and correct when Atomic Heart is running on a Windows PC, but for whatever reason the usual display and quality settings are indeed completely gone on the Steam Deck. Odd, considering this is supposed to just be the usual PC version of the game, not a separate Deck-specific version. Here’s a screenshot of how the options screen should, and currently does, look on Windows:

Now here’s the same screen on my Steam Deck, also complete with the 1.6.0.0 update. Display options? Never heard of them, comrade.

Look closely and you’ll also see that the available settings don’t even match the selected menu header; those reskin toggles are squatting in the audio section, not 'additional content' where they belong. This looks like a less pervasive glitch than the graphics settings going outright missing, as I can only sometimes replicate this smaller mix-up, but those lost visual options are well and truly gone.

For now, anyway. Despite the lack of a promised fix, Mundfish’s