Steam Deck performance?

[TaliHazard]

Has anyone tried this on the steam deck? it says verified, but I'd like a real opinion on it plz.

[Evilnapkin]

A friend said all low for 30fps but at that point doesn't look much better than the original.

[Not Edible]

Around 30s FPS outdoors (can dip below 30 and also can hang around in the 40s depending on area). Around 40 to 50 inside. 40s in the main city most of the time. This is with using the recommended settings which are basically everything set to Low and using XESS performance mode. Game looks pretty bad at those settings.

I personally have been using FSR balanced with frame generation turned on and mostly medium settings at 720p windowed with a few things set even higher. The trade-off is better overall visuals but with frame gen ghosting and some input lag. I get similar FPS that the default recommended settings would get.

Edit: Oblivion will probably need some optimization patches regardless of hardware. Reports of shader comp issues and other frame pacing seem to be an issue even on really high end PCs.

[overencumbered]

It desperately needs optimization. It's playable, barely. Long wait times for textures to load. I can stare at a shop sign for about 10 seconds waiting for it to change from a blurry unreadable mess into a real sign. Trees load with big orange triangles until they eventually turn into leaves. My FPS is at 29 most of the time in the open world.

Tons of pop in. Some effects don't work right - like the Starlight spell (I think that's what it's called) - a personal light. It does nothing until I go into third person mode then back into first, at which point the area around me is lit.

Luckily, text size is good, and menus look fine.

They really need to stop verifying games just because they run, and put more focus on performance.

[D. Flame]

This video shows it off:
https://youtu.be/4lKr01Copa0?si=pL1DZrctp97zLUvX&t=45

[Evilnapkin]

Originally posted by overencumbered:

They really need to stop verifying games just because they run, and put more focus on performance.

This has been a problem for a while. Verified is not like the old Nintendo Seal of Quality. When I first got an LCD Deck maybe 3 years ago now, I noticed SMT Nocturne was verified. So I bought it. It could sometimes freeze during a video cutscene, and would randomly crash. So, I stopped playing. Anything played straight off the Deck is at your peril imo. 99% of the time these days I just use it to stream games from my gaming PC to Deck in bed.

[TaliHazard]

i have had ZERO issues so far, been just doing the Arena over and over.,

[Oku]

It defaults to low settings and runs buttery smooth inside towns or in dungeons and the like, but in the open world it chugs pretty hard, not unplayable but still pretty rough.

[Mark Gibbons]

Use these settings for an experience that runs okay, and looks great (without the need to install any mods).

VSYNC: OFF
Frame Rate Limit: 60
FOV: 90
Motion Blur: OFF
Screen Space Reflections: OFF
View Distance Quality: MED
Effects Quality: MED
Foliage Quality: LOW
Shadow Quality: LOW
Global Illumination Quality: LOW
Texture Quality: MED
Reflection Quality: LOW
Post Processing Quality: LOW
Hair Quality: LOW
Cloth Quality: LOW
RT: OFF
RT Quality: LOW
Upscaling: FSR
Mode: Balanced
Sharpness: 50
Frame Gen: Off

This will match the out of the box "Verified" performance of 25-30fps outdoors in busy areas, and a smooth 60fps in-doors whilst looking at least twice as good.

[_DarkSol_]

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/35

Ulrimate Engine Tweaks mod is a must for Steam Deck

Enabled me to run at HIGH settings for everything, plus Lumen Software enabled.

Or can tweak one or two elements to MEDIUM if you want that ULTRA Textures bump.

Just make sure you have FSR on high performance, and you should be good for a relatively stable 30fps outdoors (higher on inside areas).

Still get the odd micro stutter here and there where it transitions to a new sector (thats a thing most folks are having i believe), and a slightly longer stutter on a full transition (like entering a town).

Its all manageable though and looks amazing compared to the crappy LOW settings youre forced into otherwise.

I havent seen how it handles a heavily populated outdoors area yet however (like a horde of Goblins in the overworld or whatever), as I havent started the game propper just yet (outside of testing and setting up) - but...enjoy

[Myztkl©-Kev]

it runs terribly, and looks even worse, even with the remove lumen mod (engine.ini tweak). I regret spending an hour installing it. I mostly only play steam deck in bed so in this case it's way better just to stream it from my PC. I hate that games on steam get verified based on everything besides performance. Needs to be upscaled from 50% resolution to even get playable framerates.

[peacewing]

I play with everything low, and I've had zero issues. A little stuttering outside. I hear people running it on their gaming PC and streaming to the deck looks great, though - they use Moonlight. I set it all up but the small dip in graphics to run on the deck isn't a huge issue for me. I mostly have it so I can play it on the couch or in bed so no big deal.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

Originally posted by peacewing:

I play with everything low, and I've had zero issues. A little stuttering outside. I hear people running it on their gaming PC and streaming to the deck looks great, though - they use Moonlight. I set it all up but the small dip in graphics to run on the deck isn't a huge issue for me. I mostly have it so I can play it on the couch or in bed so no big deal.

I've been streaming it from my PC just using the built in stream from PC feature in steam, there's like zero delay, I've noticed some bit rate lowering on occasion, but its way better than it was when I first tried it. Have to set a custom 16:10 resolution on my PC if I want it to be fullscreen without letterbox though on the steam deck.

[Warp'Ean the Thirty-seventh]

Stable 30 FPS. Fully playable.

[hagathina]

I'm playing on my OLED Steam Deck and it runs just fine. There have been a few drastic slowdowns when fast travelling, and a few freezes during the same. Obviously I'm not playing with everything on High, but even at the default settings it still looks nicer than the original. The best thing about it is that I can play it on the Deck.