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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Global_Earth1299 on 2025-04-24 20:42:01+00:00.
I’ve seen some people getting 35fps+ in certain areas of the overworld. This is true, especially in my testing. But to do this you have to lower literally every single setting to the lowest possible. In doing so the game looks like total garbage and really isn’t worth playing IMO. Not only that but the game still drops frames below 30fps quite a bit. I’ve been digging around online and doing some tweaking myself and found ways to maximize performance while not making the game look like garbage. In my testing results I’m getting 30fps locked in about 90% of the game with some dips below in random areas. This does not improve the random lag spikes or texture pop-in, just so you’re aware. The actual settings are mostly medium, with a mix of low. This results in the game looking ascetically acceptable at a much more stable frame-rate.
I have spent hours testing this. This is the best balanced configuration I’ve found so far. We really need an official patch still.
Step 1. The graphics settings in-game are as follows:
Window Mode - Fullscreen
Display Resolution - 1152x720
Framerate Limit - 30fps (DO NOT CAP THE FRAMERATE IN THE DECK SIDEBAR, RESULTS IN INPUT LAG)
Brightness Intensity - 0
Motion Blur - Off
Screen Space Reflections - On
Custom quality settings are as follows:
View Distance - Medium
Effects - Low
Foliage - Medium
I’m lazy but set everything down below this to MEDIUM except for Hair and Cloth. Those go down to Low.
I’ve tested many upscaling methods and in my testing FSR BALANCED with Sharpness set to 25 seems to deliver the best results. XeSS Performance delivered similar performance but at a lower image quality.
NOTE: Set the GPU clock to Max in the Deck sidebar.
Step 2.
Download the Engine.ini configuration from Nexus. Huge props to this user as it made a big difference performance wise and IMO actually improved visuals:
Just follow the instructions here and it should get you going.
Step 3 (Optional) Disable LumenRT
I’m leaving this as optional because in my testing, disabling this causes artifacting in dark environments. It’s….pretty noticeable. But if you want to, in my opinion it definitely makes a drastic improvement to performance and makes lighter environments prettier. Just follow this link to do it. You have to edit the Engine.ini file after you downloaded the config above:
Step 4. Profit. You should find the game to be much more aesthetically pleasing over the default configuration AND have a bit of a performance boost.