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I've been getting 25fps not having touched the settings. Anything I can do to improve that? I'm running SteamOS beta branch and have not adjusted the VRAM levels
I fiddled with it a fair bit, and ultimately decided to just stick with the "Medium" default. With that, it's pretty stable, with a few dips, but given the turn-based combat etc, it doesn't really bother me.
(But that said, I'm an old-school PC gamer. I played DooM on an 8 MHz 386 at sub-10 FPS. I had to "lead" my shots to play. So my personal standards for game performance may be a little low.)
That's normal, I have been using fsr from steam deck's menu and got it running at 30 fps for the most part, it can still go below 30 but it is very playable.
I found that turning off VSync and setting the FPS limit to 30, along with capping the Steam Deck frame rate at 30 from the UI, gives me good results. I also turned off FSR 1.0, turned on fidelityFX sharpening, and slid the slider all the way to the right. My settings are mostly on low, except for texture quality, which I set to medium.
My FPS isn't always a steady 30, but the game stays very playable, even when it drops to the low 20s. I'm not super picky about performance.
I kinda struggle to get about an hour and a half of gameplay on a full charge (my battery health is at 97%).
I literally doubled my decks weight with a 15000Ma brick attached to the DeckMate system. Now I gotta be resing my arms on my knees or a pillow but I can chill for 4 or 5hrs in game. Also, I gotta be careful about covering the inlet in that position, or I'm playing a slideshow for 2min while the Deck cools.