jerieljan
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60Hz, TDP Limit to 8W
Take note though that you'll need to decline on the EA account sign-in every time you launch the game.
Reduced refresh rate to 40Hz, might have to lock it in 30 since the game fluctuates at this value anyway while running in high.
Text is legible, but it is small or isn't styled correctly for small screens
The game gets stuck or takes a while on launch with a white screen for a variety of reasons.
It can happen at the first launch of the game. Restarting may fix it, but I managed to get over it through Proton 7.0-5 (which is strange because that was the current version anyway at the time of writing.
Anti-cheat seems to interfere with offline mode and gets stuck on the white screen, or it makes you wait for an uncomfortable long period of time.
You'll need to be patient.
If it's really taking a while, do a force close and try again.
The game works, but at mediocre performance on high quality. It's on par with previous generation console hardware.
Testing was conducted to early game areas; fighting minibosses at Limgrave and Margit at Stormveil. Results may vary for later sections in the game.
Multiplayer is as good as the normal experience; nothing out of the ordinary to report or complain about.
I've played several campaigns with the Steam Deck, both in handheld and while docked and playing on a large display. It works just as great as I would on a Windows setup.
That said, there were very rare occurrences of the game crashing to desktop without any error messages. It's very hard to reproduce and I've only experienced it twice after several hours of play, so I'm not sure what exactly causes the crash.
- TDP Limit = 4W
- Manual GPU Clock = 800
- Framerate Limit = 48 FPS
In-game graphics at High (default) but rendering scale set to 100%
The game works very well and isn't demanding on power so it's perfectly fine to lower things aggressively to save batteries. You don't even have to lower the graphics preset and it'll still run for quite a while.
You can even set things high and still have a good time running the game through Remote Play.
SteamOS: 50 FPS In-game: Default settings, but reflections set to OFF
Reflections must be set to OFF. - Some areas like Paulownia Mall would suffer significant slowdowns if the default ON setting is kept. Setting it to OFF fixes the issues entirely and you'd get mostly high frame rates for the entire game.
I was able to play P3R all the way to August (at the time of writing, still playing the game clocked at 23.9 hrs) mostly on the deck, and also while docked as long as the provided settings are applied, and while putting the Steam Deck on sleep and resume.
There were no crashes, in-game issues or glitches encountered since purchase.
Game works flawlessly; was able to do the first chapter without issues. Performance is so good that I can run it with 8–10W TDP and it'll still play very smoothly, although that's on early game dungeons. I'm guessing performance might vary once there's plenty of enemies and effects onscreen.
