Some Performance Presets for Steam Deck.

sp6, 2 months ago

All low settings looks pretty rough, but I’m also usually not super concerned about battery life. I personally use:

• DX12
• 103FOV
• FSR 1.0 highest quality (2.0 looks horrible in DRG for some reason, and lower qualities didn’t help a ton)
• Anti-aliasing: TAA (looks best with FSR)
• Texture Quality: Ultra (with CryoUtilities, zero performance hit compared to low, but idk about stock)
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: Ultra (zero performance hit compared to low)
• View Distance: Ultra (zero performance hit compared to low)
• Shadow Quality: High (even though low will get you a 10% fps boost, I couldn’t stand the zero shadows, and high only has a ~2% hit compared to medium)
• Effects: High (lowest setting that keeps screen space refections, but this is a 10% fps hit compared to medium and low. Low and medium were identical FPS)
• Post-Processing: Medium (or high if you use the Better Post Processing Reloaded mod, or if you’re okay with chromatic abberation). Low will remove ambient occlusion, but has a 10% FPS boost
• 11W TDP
• V-sync’d 40-45hz (still tuning that in)

However, I use CryoUtilities and have a pretty hefty ~40mV undervolt (which can sometimes improve performance). Also note that I have the original LCD model, and apparently the LCD and OLED handle TDP settings pretty differently. So YMMV with these settings.