Ignis R. Grendel
Published
The default settings provide a good gaming experience, but there is still room for optimization in terms of power consumption
Before playing the game, I made the following adjustments on my Steam Deck. If your experience differs from mine, please try making the following changes:
- Set UMA Frame Buffer size to 4GB in BIOS
- Set swap file size to 16GB
Power consumption performance with default settings:
- Closed scene, few NPCs: 60fps, stable; power consumption 10W-15W
- Closed scene, many NPCs: 60fps; consumption 15W-20W
- Open scene: 40-60fps; consumption 18W-22W
- Open scene, heavy vegetation: 30-50fps; consumption 20W-24W
The game runs well without changing any settings. If you don’t have any specific requirements, you can play without making any adjustments. However, if you want to play with lower power consumption like I do, you can refer to my settings.
Steam Deck Settings:
- Disable frame rate limit --- Using the system fps limit causes significant control delay.
Game Settings:
- Upscaling: FSR2 Balance --- The game runs well even without using FSR, but using FSR Balance saves about 0.5W of power without significantly affecting the visual quality.
- V-Sync Interval: 2 --- Locks the frame rate at 30fps. This setting does not cause input delay at 30fps. And the small screen size and controller input d
It seems that the in-game UI cannot be scaled.
The default settings provide a good gaming experience, but there is still room for optimization in terms of power consumption
Before playing the game, I made the following adjustments on my Steam Deck. If your experience differs from mine, please try making the following changes:
- Set UMA Frame Buffer size to 4GB in BIOS
- Set swap file size to 16GB
Power consumption performance with default settings:
- Closed scene, few NPCs: 60fps, stable; power consumption 10W-15W
- Closed scene, many NPCs: 60fps; consumption 15W-20W
- Open scene: 40-60fps; consumption 18W-22W
- Open scene, heavy vegetation: 30-50fps; consumption 20W-24W
The game runs well without changing any settings. If you don’t have any specific requirements, you can play without making any adjustments. However, if you want to play with lower power consumption like I do, you can refer to my settings.
Steam Deck Settings:
- Disable frame rate limit — Using the system fps limit causes significant control delay.
Game Settings:
- Upscaling: FSR2 Balance — The game runs well even without using FSR, but using FSR Balance saves about 0.5W of power without significantly affecting the visual quality.
- V-Sync Interval: 2 — Locks the frame rate at 30fps. This setting does not cause input delay at 30fps. And the small screen size and controller input dilute the perception of the frame rate, making the 30fps experience not feel bad.
- Display Mode: Exclusive Fullscreen (third option) — If this setting doesn’t make the game run at 30fps, try the other two options.
After applying these settings, the game will run stably at 30fps in all scenes with power consumption between 10W and 12W. On an LCD model, this will allow for about 4 hours of playtime.
Do next optimizing before run the game:
-Set UMA Frame Buffer size to 4G in BIOS
-Set swap file size to 16G
(Use CryoUtilities to do it automatically is recommanded.)
(By some reports, the game may frame lag more if you don't set it up.)
Game setting:
-Follow recommanded setting. (All in midium.)
-Upscaling: FSR 2 Quality. (Play with no upscaling is playable but it will drop frame in more scene.)
-FPS limit: 30fps.
Steam deck setting:
-FPS limit: 30fps.
Performance:
-Whole console consumption: 10w(indoor) - 25w(outdoor).
-FPS: 30fps indoor, stable. 25-30fps outdoor.
It should be the best setting in terms of graphics and framerate tradeoffs probability.
After a period of optimization, the game can play sound and video normally. About the phenomenon of irregular crashes while chapter changing, we can set system swap to 16G to solve it. Use CryoUtilities to do it automatically is recommanded.
Can be solved by the above.
The game can provide an okay experience if you forget the save and the animation problem.
The picture of saved in game cannot be displayed correctly.
The game may crash when changing chapters. ------Set system swap to 16G to solve it. Use CryoUtilities to do it automatically is recommanded. (I also set UMA Frame Buffer Size to 4G but it is not key of the problem I think.)
The game cannot play video without ge-proton. ------Switch compatibility tool to GE-Proton.
