Demo performance on Steam Deck.

[SuperNintendad]

I got the demo to run on steam deck without any issues. I found it runs the best going with High settings and the FPS set to 30 FPS.

https://youtu.be/aoIM0nkFrHg

[Mr_Tanooki]

Performance looks pretty good considering the minimum requirements are a 1060/RX 580. I was kinda expecting this to be a game where you need to put everything to "Low" to get a playable frame rate.

[HollowFLCL]

yes but AMD FSR is broken.

[Panther]

FSR is working for me on Quality setting with the screen capped at 45FPS 90HZ on OLED. Looks great so far.

[Captain.Cheasant]

I thought the performance was pretty bad on steamdeck. Very choppy and lots of dips even on lowest settings with the exception of dynamic resolution which does improve frame rate but makes the game a blurry mess. Mostly hovers around 30. Not very good.

[alucard_xs]

45 fps on mine at 90 Hz, FSR ON.
There should be tricks to do in config file to lower shadows / resolution.

[Panther]

Originally posted by CHAD:

I thought the performance was pretty bad on steamdeck. Very choppy and lots of dips even on lowest settings with the exception of dynamic resolution which does improve frame rate but makes the game a blurry mess. Mostly hovers around 30. Not very good.

Put FSR at quality, not anything less.

[djduke]

cant download the demo on steamdeck .how you did?

[eiriankageno]

Originally posted by Panther:

FSR is working for me on Quality setting with the screen capped at 45FPS 90HZ on OLED. Looks great so far.

Sadly, I'm guessing this doesn't work in the pre-OLED decks, since as far as I can tell, I can't change it to 90HZ while also 45 FMS.

Oh well. We will see whether i can get something that looks half decent going. The downside of buying the deck too early. Got the highest end model at the time, and then they came out with better ones 😅

[PopularBear]

I can barely get 30fps on low, Deck OLED. I chose priorize inage quality when I opened the game. And I get lots of dips. I did upgrade the SSD to a 2TB WD one, Indoubt that would affect me.

[M3n2c3]

Originally posted by CHAD:

I thought the performance was pretty bad on steamdeck. Very choppy and lots of dips even on lowest settings with the exception of dynamic resolution which does improve frame rate but makes the game a blurry mess. Mostly hovers around 30. Not very good.

Originally posted by PopularBear:

I can barely get 30fps on low, Deck OLED. I chose priorize inage quality when I opened the game. And I get lots of dips. I did upgrade the SSD to a 2TB WD one, Indoubt that would affect me.

It should be capable of running higher than 30, but the 30fps lock is advisable for stability. Finding the right combo of settings is a little tricky because the in-game and system-level settings don't always play nice with each other. It's really easy to end up with unstable frametimes and constant microstutter (awfully obvious when you spin the camera).

Try the following; this is what I've settled on after messing around with it for a while:
System level: 30 fps frame limit (@ 90 Hz refresh). All other settings (scaling, TDP, GPU clock, etc.) are at the default. Note also that I'm using GE Proton 9-10.
In-game: Borderless windowed, 1280x720, 30 fps max frame rate, vsync off, FSR2 quality, graphics settings high.

It will still dip a teensy bit below that occasionally, but it should be pretty smooth overall. FSR2 is really important because it gives you a good performance buffer for more demanding scenes and drastically reduces your power consumption and heat. Squeenix's FSR2 implementation here is impressively good as long as you pair it with the high graphics setting. Whatever anti-aliasing (if any) they chose for standard and low graphics settings does not work well with FSR and turns the game into a shimmery mess.

[coldreactive]

Make sure to report steam deck performance on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/2989250

[UdderJuice]

Thanks for the feedback. I will test out the demo myself this weekend.

[Mr Rosser]

How did you get the controller to work? I can touch the screen but I can't use my thumb sticks etc, I'll re download and try again.