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Strictly on the Steam Deck side, it's definitely enjoyable. It runs great from the many hours I've played so far.
Locked the framerate to 30 FPS.
Some of the menu text can be a little too small, but it's readable to an extent. Just a note: This isn't necessarily a Steam Deck or PC issue, as I personally have this issue on both Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 on a 4K display.
The game will default to DirectX 12 after the first launch and the game will run fine, but I ran into some random crashes while it was using DirectX 12. Switching to DirectX 11 has fully resolved the issues for me.
I set the base visual settings to medium, but I upped anti-aliasing to temporal (TAA), anisotropic filtering to 16x, and motion blur (camera and per-object) enabled. I've been able to maintain a fairly solid 30 FPS with drops mainly occurring when a lot of particle effects are on screen. This may exacerbate when you reach the end game and start tinkering with Mayhem levels and True Vault Hunter mode, but I have not reached that point yet.
I tried experimenting with different refresh rates and framerate caps through the Steam Deck's performance options, but they were either causing frametimes to go all over the place or severely degrade battery performance. I personally feel like setting the refresh rate to 60 Hz and locking the framerate to 30 FPS provides both a solid performance experience and battery life for the Steam Deck.
Also, as of 2022-07-29, the total size of the game and DLCs is 142.41 GB. If you have a 64 GB Steam Deck, you will need a microSD card to install the game to. It's a large game.
