This guide assumes that you strive for the best visual quality, while not compromising on a rock solid 60fps experience. It also assumes you purely play in portable handheld mode, rather than hooking up to an external display.

This game is a struggle to push up to the full Steam Deck 1280 x 800p resolution without some noticeable dips below 60fps occurring quite often, so we'll have to make a little compromise by utilising the Steam Deck's Inbuilt FSR 1.0 Implementation.

The following settings report to give 2-2.5 hours based on the overlay metric, but of course this can vary. (Tests made with the Original LCD Steam Deck, newer OLED models will last longer.)

As stated in the Rationale, we're looking for the best visuals while keeping 60fps. This is a daunting task for this game, as it's bound by both GPU Clock and RAM Speed. Otherwise, with a bit of tuning down in the Resolution Department, we can achieve a good balance of performance, visuals and power.


Low

60fps

To preference. (TAA will cause a few frame drops but is mostly stable. FXAA helps and is less intense.)

On

None

High

Low

1152x720 (Must be lower than 1280x800 for FSR)

100%

Windowed

No (Required to be disabled for FSR)

You can't just set a game to a certain quality and just stop there, we can do some further optimisations to increase battery life, or reduce frametime variance. We are also going to be enabling FSR 1.0, a feature baked into the Steam Deck.



To preference. (0-2 is my preference to monitor performance.)

On

60fps (LCD Deck, 90fps on OLED untested!)

On (This must be set to enable FSR)

Off

Off

On, Set to 10 Watts. (Lower causes clocks to drop and reduce FPS.)

Off (If enabled, set to 1300Mhz. This reduces some cases of variable frametimes.)

Stretch (This is so when FSR resizes it, it fills the screen appropriately rather than overfill.)

Sharp (This is how we enable FSR 1.0 on the Steam Deck, with resolutions below 1280x800!)

To preference. (I use 0.)