Silent

Anti-climatic resolution to this: Turns out that in our current build, VSync is broken and it engages an FPS limiter (see stats), while VSync remains off. Since I play in a borderless window and the game doesn't allow tearing, I couldn't tell. VSync off + borderless = no stutter.

Silent jumpscare

Out of sheer curiosity, Lime Rock in @projectmotorracing.bsky.social vs NASCAR 25

The gamepad seems pretty usable, all things considered. I don't dare turn forced traction control off, though.

PMR's UI feels very placeholder-y, but it's mostly usable - but this screen makes me wonder if it's any different on the consoles because I feel like flashing colors this rapidly could fail the console certification.

That's an acute observation, did the flag give it away?

Unicode awareness is in order, at least.

vsync is enabled and frame limiter in game is disabled, so I would expect them to be synced. This hitch is not noticeable on the frame graphs, the game renders smoothly all the time.

I don't understand what's going on here yet, but it really is like the simulation is hitching. The game stays at stable 60 FPS, but frames are skipping from time to time, as if the simulation was skipping forwards sometimes.

Changelog Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components - ValveSoftware/Proton

Proton Experimental received an update, which means NASCAR 25 is now playable with it and Proton Bleeding Edge is no longer necessary!
github.com/ValveSoftwar...

Hard for a better showcase of how relatively light on the GPU NASCAR 25 is than by having it run at native 4K on Steam Deck at framerates only slightly lower than when it runs at 1280x800:

Grass is very detailed, can be moved and the damage seems to be permanent - yup that's a Farming Sim engine alright

All the "cool" debug visualizations are present in this build, but no "harmful" features (like say, teleport) were left behind - so I see this as an absolute win.

This will come in handy for the review I'm sure.

FINALLY

Let me change the language, I don't want to play in Polish 🥴

Project Motor Racing right here with a throwback to what installing games without Steam was like - about to find out what it works like! I don't intend to focus on the content much, but will be nitpicking the technicalities.

I usually don't have access to editing the store pages or packages so that I don't know 😭

Yeah you can set the base directory for a DLC depot in the VDF file

Personally I prefer having all depots in the game appid, as I update the entire build at once easily then and it's impossible to desync

Depot 4190940 for Encounter SteamDB record for Depot 4190940 for Encounter.

One thing I see is that the DLC depot is empty steamdb.info/depot/4190940/

What's the appid of this DLC?

Your DLC can either use depots from the base game in which case you upload it as a separate depot together with your base game, or they can be separate, in which case the process is identical to the base game depots, just targeting a different appid!

Patrick finished the race -last-, and he hit the side of my car as he was getting lapped while exiting the pitlane, and he's the one crying that I get in the way of real racers

NASCAR 25 simulates the social media commentary perfectly

2 years later, no dedicated BTCC game 😭

NASCAR 25 PC review – good game, basic port Curse of the PC versions of annual sports games hits the oval track. Gameplay impressions, benchmarks, Steam Deck compatibility.

NASCAR 25 is an enjoyable game that is very basic on the tech side, and its PC port delivers the bare minimum. I played the game for a few days, benchmarked it on two different machines, and tried to run it on a Steam Deck. Read the full review on my blog:
cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/11/18/n...

If Rennsport this underbaked right now, I'd probably make it explode if I tried it lol

I doubt it. I think they simply didn't want to allocate resources/care about escalating issues to Proton. Or maybe they waited for exactly this - for the community to escalate this.

The game hits a GPU bottleneck on road tracks like Chicago, and a CPU bottleneck on oval tracks, just like on my desktop PC. Disabling TSR through Engine.ini tweaks improves the situation, and so does disabling the mirror. This means cockpit cameras are slower than the chase cam.

We were told that NASCAR 25 doesn't support Steam Deck, but one Proton bug report later, it now boots in the latest Proton Bleeding Edge! The performance leaves a lot to be desired, but that's on hardware and not Proton. Exciting news as Steam Machine will now run the game!