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im ok with a playable game but you do lose out on the graphics. So i won't assume anyone else will like it.
Check out Cryobite33's videos on Youtube! He has one for Starfield and one a tool he created to boost performance in general. Between those fixes and maxing fps at 30, New Atlantis is pretty stable barring an occasional stutter.
See notes on Cryobite33'a vids
Main issue i have is with audio
If you just want to play SF on Steam deck this seems to be the way to do it fight now! Will try to update if it proves to get worse
Don't listen to the commentators from below. There is no stable 30 fps in the game, no matter how hard you try. Save your money!
The interface text is too small and pixelated
Your ears will enjoy the constant crackling. I have not found a solution to this problem.
There is no stable 30 fps. Even at the lowest graphics settings with fsr 3.0 with a screen resolution of 50%, fps does not rise above 26 even on empty planets. In big cities, you will experience hellish pain and irritation in the eyes from the magnificent 13 fps. Add to this the potato graphics and the terrible blurring of the picture.
Often the game crashes at random moments.
Until the last patch, the game worked stably at 30 fps with fsr 2.1 and 80% resolution scaling. Now, even with fsr 3.0 and scaling of 50%, you will not achieve a stable 30 frames. The terrible potato graphics with unbearable blurring are complemented by disgusting crackling right into your ears, which cannot be removed in any way. Just forget about the starfield on the steam deck.
With some easy to apply tweaks, Starfield runs great on the Deck! The main issues concerning performance are in New Atlantis and Akila City.
Some changes to the graphic settings preset .ini's, as well as some graphical tweaks in the StarfieldCustom.ini file.
There's a new setting at time of making this report that states when it's toggled, it will enable one to seemlessly use both controller and M&K inputs at the same time. This would be a useful feature for setting the right trackpad to mouse or any other assortment of keybinds to the Deck's buttons, but all this setting does from my testing is stop controls from working at all. This forced me to force-quit the game and re-toggle the setting from the main start screen.
Recent updates have made Starfield run quite a bit better on Deck through the use of upscaling tech and much needed optimizations to the game on Bethesda's end. To further increase performance (30-50 FPS on ANY planet/dungeon), one can lower the graphics seetings to bare minimum and set render resolution to 50% (Which looks better than one would expect thanks to AMD's FSR 3.0).
Another thing to DRASTICALLY improve performance is to install the Steam Deck Essentials .ini files off of Nexus Mods. I chose the "Balanced" preset and get a fairly consistent 45-60 FPS, excluding New Atlantis and Akilla City, unfortunately.
Though the game is playable out of the box, Deck users should consider looking for ways to bypass its poor optimization by either installing Steam Deck specific tweaks or editing the .ini files themselves. 50 FPS is what I run on average, but even with the tweaks applied, major cities and some POI's exteriors can cause dips down to 30 FPS.
Overall, not a bad way to play Starfield at all.
As for the version 1.12.30 works at 30fps most of the time, except Akila City and New Atlantis.
Settings: all low, medium textures, high motion blur, FSR3 50%. Lock Steam Deck at 30 FPS.
Graphics looks nice, but a bit blurry.
Works at 30fps most of the time with accasual minor drops. The only exceptions are New Atlantis and Akila City. In this locations fps is usually 22-26. A workaround I'm using is to explore the city, and then use fast travel on the city map to jump between places.
Text is a bit too small.
The game crashed once for me when I accidently went back and forth locations that separated with a loading screen (actually it hanged, so I had to restart Steam Deck).
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/2910 https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/538 （优化mod）and i also use https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer (steamdeck mo2)to manage mods
40fps lock ，but in cities can be down to 20fps, stil have some suttering。but good in door situation（锁40帧，但是城区内依然只有20甚至卡到更低，室内场景无问题）
some times can't load and stuck in black screen(有时候卡黑屏）
Force 30 FPS, allow tearing (in-game V-Sync enabled), limit GPU clock to 1600 MHz
(Updated 5/8/24 in Steam Beta v1.11.33) Much better than before, but still requires additional set up to get working without significant problems on Steam Deck. Would recommend CryoUtilities, changing UMA Buffer size to 4 GB, and using the latest Proton GE (GE-Proton-9.4 in my case). Set all game settings to low, 65% render resolution, FSR3 with Frame Generation off. With those settings, the game was playable at 30 FPS with decent battery life and didn't look too bad in most cases. Probably can get higher than 30 in some cases (small ships, some planets), but will still suffer from framerate drops in New Atlantis, Akila City, and planets with a lot of rendering (e.g. many animals, trees). All in all, probably not the best way to play Starfield, but definitely workable if you want to play it on-the-go or away from your gaming PC.
Did not have the proper resolution. The did fully fit on the screen but switching between the game and the menu made it look really stretched.
Anytime I fired my weapon I had some slow down for about half a second or so. While in a little outpost it was well bellow 30fps, hovering around 15.
It's not as bad as I was expecting it to be on Steam Deck. I wouldn't only play SF on the Deck, but for wandering around planets, maybe scanning flora and fauna it'd be great! But get into a fire fight or even smaller settlements and you're in for a choppy time.
Lowest possible graphics settings
Set Refresh Rate to 40hz
Do not turn Half-Rate Shading on.
Occasional audio bugging during heavy load
Game crashes semi-often when in Akila City or New Atlantis's MAST District - Save often in these areas.
Downloaded ProtonUp-Qt in desktop mode and installed latest version and then everything worked great!
I had to download ProtonUp-Qt from the Discover store on desktop. I then opened it and installed GE-Proton8-25. Then back in gaming mode i had to force experimental mode and then select GE-Proton8-25 from the dropdown of proton versions.
The game runs fine on the lowest settings. Obviously it's better playing on my PC but this is totally fine for continuing where I left off while travelling!
Sometimes looking around quickly results in missing textures
Hitting 45fps requires significant downgrades, and will get lag spikes when in cities.
20 FPS in cities, maybe 40 if you run on low. With Low + Dynamic resolution on, its like playing while looking through a goldfish bowl. Would not recommend until Bethesda optimizes performance.
Be prepared to do a lot of tinkering to get this game running - 3rd party .ini Tweaks & Cryoutilities are a MUST
Game crashes on 2nd or 3rd menu opening after latest Starfield 1.8.86 & SteamOS 3.5.5
Game crashes on 2nd or 3rd menu opening after latest Starfield 1.8.86 & SteamOS 3.5.5
Required a ton of additional set up to get working initially on Steam Deck. Installed CryoUtilities, changed UMA Buffer size to 4G, and forced Proton Experimental. With those settings, the game was playable at 30 FPS with decent battery life and didn't look too bad in most cases.
Now after the 1.8.86 update, the game experiences a fatal instability when opening the menu the 2nd or 3rd time and hard crashes the deck.
Ich habe SteamOS 3.5.1 Preview installiert und unervolting betrieben. Mt StaemOS 3.5.1 kommt auch der Mesa Treiber 23.1.3 mit der mehr Performance bringt.
Man brauch die Proton Experimental oder die GE-Proton8-22 um im Foto Modus die Bilder zu speichern.
Installed SteamOS 3.5 Preview to get it to work
Between 25-30 FPS but very playable
Loved every minute of Starfield on my Steam Deck, unmodded!
I'm not one for writing much in reviews but I've got 100 hours in Starfield on my Steam Deck. It's totally unmodded although I did need to install the Preview versions of Steam OS to get it to run well. That was a few weeks back so it's possible that the main OS releases have some updates but if you are happy with 30FPS (most of the time), then it works fine. Sure the graphics aren't the best on a Steam Deck but I've got 100 hours in the game so it's not that bad! Also, I didn't have to mess with Controller settings at all - the standard default worked a treat.
It's not a bit samey now for me (and I'm probably mid-to-late game), but regardless, after 100 hours, I'm not going to complain.
I was surprised how well it worked. All settings on low, but it looked pretty decent. FPS wasn't great but it never got unplayable. Indoors and in simple scenes I was getting 30 FPS more often than not. Complex scenes outdoors with lots of other characters milling around (e.g. in a city) it would drop to the 22-25 FPS range. Once in a while if a lot of effects were going off at once (gunfire, grenades) in a big, complex setting I'd see it hit the high teens.
Not great, but not terrible. Playable. This isn't a twitch shooter in the first place, so while a little annoying at times it's something you can live with to play Stellaris on an airplane or taking a dump or whatever.
I'm hoping we get some performance optimizatoins down the road, this game runs like garabage on much more robust hardware. If that happens it could very positively affect the Deck as well.
The only real issue is how much battery it hoovers down. I'd say about an hour and a half of play time.
Refresh rate set to 40Hz; FPS locked to 20.
One crash
Forced Proton experimental. Other than that, it works out of the box. 20FPS might seem low, but it's stable, looks surprisingly good on the small screen, and gives me around three hours of play time with graphics on the lowest preset. It can easily run at 30FPS or better, but then the battery life suffers.
Given that performance on my Windows desktop with AMD 5950X and RTX 3090 is terrible, I'm actually surprised at how well this runs on Deck
The game does not support simultaneous controller and mouse/keyboard input. In fact, the game doesn't even let you see what the keyboard keybinds are if you access the menu via controller. So I set up a button to switch between controller and mouse/keyboard mode so that I could assign a button to auto-walk (there is no auto-walk keybind for controller); while in the mouse/keyboard mode, I have the joysticks send mouse/keyboard inputs. I set all this up just for the auto-walk feature. But if you want to use any keyboard keybinds that don't have a controller counterpart, you'll need to either do this or else switch to mouse/keyboard emulation entirely.
Controller and mouse/keyboard aren't supported at the same time, however this is not a fault of running on Proton. See rest of review
This game is an absolute mess, is buggy, and has lots of issues. However, the performance on Steam Deck is surprisingly good, especially given that the game runs poorly on high powered PCs. Save file synchronization between Deck and PC works perfectly (however, the game doesn't auto-save, so always remember to save, save, save).
Used some mods, and specifically Steam Deck Essentials (All Handhelds) and a few small ones, that shouldn't affect performance in any positive way
I installed Steam Deck Essentials (All Handhelds), an FOV mod, Enhanced Player Healthbar, Less Spongy Enemies and a few other small ones
Screen on 40Hz
I personally didn't have a problem with the game, on the Steamdeck. It ran out of box, and my tinkering was mostly to get more fps, and possibly more battery life
Not Playable
it's playable! whatever anyone tells you it is playable, it just won't look or run like the 4k ultra YouTube videos you've seen
HUD text is too blurry to read, but not terribly important to either
pause and select and backwards, as well as the right joystick randomly stopping working. seems to be related to changing the volume or any other non-controller functions such as the track pads
Just too heavy to run at more than 30fps in any real area
Game literally ran perfectly with how it was configured. (all settings on low) Admittedly, the start/select button being reversed from a controller on PC did throw me for a loop though.
Locked to 30fps
Slows down a lot in big citties
1 crash in 10 hours of play
It runs well in interiors an on most planets. Really playable. Only in the bigger cities it get slow, especialy New Atlantis looks really bad. Still, if you only have a steamdeck, it's an ok way to play the game.
switched to 12 watts with playable performance, 7 watts if i'm desperate for battery life (its still somewhat playable)
right joystick sometimes stops working, I have to restart the game to fix it
Expect 20-30 FPS on average, 40 FPS in small indoor areas, and under 20 FPS in rare situations (with ALL graphic settings turned down, including render resolution scale)
Switched to Beta Channel
Swaped Start and Select
All settings to Low, Motionblur off, Dynamic Resolution to 80%. TDP 9 Watt results in acceptable 20 ot 35 fps some drops to 15
Changed in game to large Menu
It seems Starfield works well on enough on the steamdeck. It might not be able to wow you with FSR'd 800p, but it works well enough.
If you walk away from the game for a bit, the right joystick no longer registers, but you get mouse in menus. A smaller bug is that the two start and select buttons seem to be flipped with the default layouyt.
The steamdeck is a great platform to play Starfield, especially if used as an "in between" system to work through the more mundane tasks between major misssions. However, if you are expecting the full visuals that BGS has been able to accomplish, it might not be an ideal platform.
very infrequently it'd crash, but not enough to hamper player
on startup, I have to tap the screen with my finger
Great game on Proton Experimental!
Set TDP limit to 12 watts
Got stuck in a loading screen once
Install this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/290 Just replace the Low profile and set the graphic setting in game to low. Most of the senario will be in steady 30 fps. If you don't want the blurry texture all the time, set the resolution to 70%, most of the senario will be 30fps, but not the New Atlantis, it will drop to about 20fps in the city.
Blurry because of the default setting of FSR.
No issues after getting the SteamOS update
DualSense buttons weren't all mapped right. As in, X wasn't the x button
Runs without issues with Proton Experimental (at least at the start of the game), the game is playable but the performance is not great; ~25fps with all low setting without FSR and about 30 with dynamic res and FSR, but that looks pretty bad, not worth it imho.
Pour les nouvelle parties lancer le jeu via le bureau du steam deck sauvegardé et relance le jeu sur steamOS
Performance is playable, 25-30 FPS. All lowest settings, motion blur and film grain turned off with FSR 2.0 enabled.
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