Ratirefure
Published
Made a turbo bind and enabled native touchscreen (this game supports it!)
Default resolution is sometimes wrong, causing blurry screen. Occasionally game boots in a very squished res, restarting game usually solves this.
Couldn't get native touchscreen support to work
Game starts in 800x600 resolution with VSync ("refresh rate" setting) causing massive input lag. Can be changed from ingame menu.
On main menu sometimes controls would become unresponsive. Opening and closing Steam overlay usually fixed it. Input lag on default graphics settings.
Set gyro enable to L2 and put Jump, Dodge, Heal, and Dive on back grip buttons
Runs alright, ~30fps on default settings on DeckHD (1200p) screen. Had to mess with ingame settings to get to 60fps.
Ingame settings
Graphic Settings
- Windowed Mode: Borderless
- Resolution: 1920x1200 (16:10)
- Frame rate: Uncapped
- V-Sync: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Post Processing: Medium
- Effects: Low
- Control Config: Type C
- Character Quality: Highest Quality
- Background Quality: High
- Cinematics Quality: High
- Rendering Resolution: (Slider set exactly in the middle)
With these settings, I was able to get 60fps in the train in Chapter 0, as well as in the first Mystery Labyrinth, without too much visual fidelity lost. You may be able to set some things higher on the default 800p display.
SteamDeck=0 %command%
ChaudLoader always runs on startup and requires mouse + left click to navigate.
By default, intro screen is not animated. This seems to be a Steam Deck optimization, so setting the launch option fixes it. The Deck can handle it.
Game detects the Steam Deck and refuses to play in resolutions other than 1280x720. Launch option fixes this. The Deck can handle it.
Steam Deck optimizations take some of the wind out of this game's sails, as the main menu looks much cheaper with the static intro and the lack of resolution options makes proper scaling on displays other than the stock Deck's more difficult. Luckily, the Steam Deck optimizations can be easily disabled and the game still runs perfectly.
Opened with Steam Tinker Launch
Ingame. Changed button icons in Options menu to Xbox buttons. B is Confirm in menus by default, can be changed from ingame controls menu.
Some button icons are quite small, but still readable
Very slight audio hitches, likely due to playing from SD card. Noticeable when opening options menu for the first time and tabbing through. Added pulseaudio latency of 60ms from Steam Tinker Launch which seems to mitigate it.
SMAA or disabled Anti-Aliasing, 8x texture filtering.
The game starts at a low resolution, despite reporting 800p in Screen settings. Setting to another resolution and back fixes this.
Ambient occlusion shadows look weird. I disabled AO and the game looks no worse.
As above, game initially starts with low resolution.
A Steam issue with Playstation controllers in Game mode causes touchpad to always move the mouse.
No modding support, even with custom Proton. FAR isn't as necessary as on Windows, but it also means no texture packs.
Runs perfectly on max settings, controls work great, and game runs perfectly with no tinkering on Proton 9.
On Proton 8, Steam Input controllers wouldn't be detected (including Steam Deck controls). Not an issue on Proton 9
Game seems to work with Playstation 5 DualSense controller without Steam Input, and displays correct controller icons.
Played with DeckHD modded system, and runs at 1200p with no slowdown.
Also played with overclocked 70Hz display, kept a solid 70fps once the following things were set ingame:
- VSync ON
- Framerate set to DEFAULT
Then in Steam Quick Access Menu (... button):
- Framerate limit set to OFF
- Allow Tearing ON
- Refresh Rate set to 70Hz
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dsound=n,b" %command%
Enabled screen space reflections per PCGamingWiki
Game ignores resolution set by Steam Deck and tries to fill the whole screen, despite being made for 16:9. This can cause weird artifacts to appear in the top and bottom rows of pixels. This can be mitigated with either running the game in a window and setting the resolution from there, or using P3Rfix below.
Graphics settings are saved into the individual save slots, meaning you'll likely have to manually change your graphics settings if you go between Steam Deck and PC.
Additionally, Episode Aigis DLC will not respect your settings from the main game, and you'll have to set them again. These are not Linux or Steam Deck problems, but problems with the game.
I am using a DeckHD screen and custom cooling solution (PTM thermal pad). Below are the options I'm using, which has given me 60fps in most areas of the main game and extremely consistently in the Episode Aigis DLC.
On my Steam Deck, I have Unified Frame Limit Management settings disabled in the system settings (bottom of Display tab), so I can set Refresh Rate and Framerate separately.
Steam Deck QAM (... button):
- Framerate Limit OFF
- Refresh Rate 60 Hz
- FMVs run at 24 or 30fps, and as such, odd refresh rates should be avoided
- Allow Tearing ON
- YMMV, but I haven't noticed any tearing.
- Remember: only ONE tearing prevention option should be enabled at a time, if any are enabled at all
Ingame settings:
Graphics Settings:
- Rendering Scale 75%
- only if playing at 1080p; 100% should be good for 720p
- Shadow Quality Low
- or Middle, can again depend on resolution
- Frame Rate Limit 60
- Reflections OFF
- This setting specifically controls Ray Traced Reflections and WILL turn the game into a PowerPoint presentation if left on
- Using PCGamingWiki fix, this should still allow Screen Space Reflections
Display Settings:
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Window if you don't want to use P3RFix
- VSync OFF
- YMMV, but I haven't noticed any tearing.
- Remember: only ONE tearing prevention option should be enabled at a time, if any are enabled at all
I also installed P3Rfix and changed the individual lines of the P3RFix.ini file as follows (do not just copy this):
[Custom Resolution]
Enabled = true
Width = 1920
Height = 1080
[Intro Skip]
SkipTo = 1
[Enable Console]
Enabled = false
Turned refresh rate down to 45hz, set TDP to 8 and GPU clock to 600
Game crashed once after loading a quicksave and trying to fuse personas. Hasn't happened again.
Japanese audio issues seems to be fixed, as are the weird stutters (like on all-out attacks). Game can't be launched more than once without internet, which sucks for a handheld game, but it's still fun when Atlus does let you play the game you bought.
Game works perfectly when framerate is capped at 60. Touchpad controls are a plus; just like the DS days.
Change right trackpad to move Mouse, and "Touch" command to left click (this lets me "examine" areas easier). Changed back grip buttons to "A button" (Confirm/Examine) and "Y Button" (Present Evidence).
TDP and GPU Clock can be lowered quite a bit without slowdown. I use the lowest settings.
The game can be blurry on first start up due to low default resolution. Set the resolution in the game's settings.
Sometimes audio can become horribly distorted after waking from sleep. Saving and restarting the game always fixed this.
Game can be choppy when "panning" (courtroom scenes, examining 2-screen rooms). Cap framerate to make this less noticeable.
Also, disabling ingame V-Sync and keeping Steam's V-Sync on ("Allow Tearing" off) may help with latency and smoothness.
Game occasionally drops frames when Peppino is going too fast.
Pretty good once you get past the launcher. Had to tinker with graphics settings a bit with DeckHD Screen.
Need touchpad remapped to mouse, or touch screen, to navigate Rockstar Launcher on first launch. Need to invoke keyboard manually (STEAM + X) to input login information.
Used DeckHD 1200p (1920x1200) screen. Game plays great (60 fps in Armadillo with slight momentary hitches) at 1920x1200 resolution with following settings:
Steam Deck QAM (... Button)
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- Disable Frame Limit: On
Ingame Settings (Options -> Graphics)
- Screen Type: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1920 x 1200
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- Framerate Cap: 60fps
- V-Sync: Off
- Triple Buffering: Off
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Shadow Blend: Dithered
- Anisotropic Level: x16
- Anti-Aliasing / Upscaling Method: FXAA
- Resolution Scaling: Off
- Motion Blur: Disabled
- Level of Detail Settings: (All settings here start with 1 at the far left)
- Geometry: 2/6
- Terrain: 2/10
- Tree LoD: 1/5
- Tree Draw Distance: 1/3
- Grass: 2/6
Additional Information
- My Steam Deck has a custom PTM thermal pad cooling solution
- My Steam Deck has been modified to have 4GB of VRAM
- This information is with very little time spent ingame. Will update later if anything changes throughout my playthrough (mainly of Undead Nightmare)
Pretty good once you get past the launcher. Had to tinker with graphics settings a bit with DeckHD Screen. Audio crackling can be mitigated.
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=1 %command%
Need touchpad remapped to mouse, or touch screen, to navigate Rockstar Launcher on first launch. Need to invoke keyboard manually (STEAM + X) to input login information.
Needed to set PulseAudio latency to mitigate crackling/skipping
Used DeckHD 1200p (1920x1200) screen. Game plays great (60 fps in Armadillo with slight momentary hitches) at 1920x1200 resolution with following settings:
Steam Deck QAM (... Button)
- Refresh Rate: 60 FPS (60Hz)
Ingame Settings (Options -> Graphics)
- Screen Type: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1920 x 1200
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- Framerate Cap: 60fps
- V-Sync: Off
- Triple Buffering: Off
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Shadow Blend: Dithered
- Anisotropic Level: x16
- Anti-Aliasing / Upscaling Method: FXAA
- Resolution Scaling: Off
- Motion Blur: Disabled
- Level of Detail Settings: (All settings here start with 1 at the far left)
- Geometry: 2/6
- Terrain: 2/10
- Tree LoD: 1/5
- Tree Draw Distance: 1/3
- Grass: 2/6
Additional Information
- My Steam Deck has a custom PTM thermal pad cooling solution
- My Steam Deck has been modified to have 4GB of VRAM
- This information is with very little time spent ingame. Will update later if anything changes throughout my playthrough (mainly of Undead Nightmare)
Ground textures flicker at 60FPS. Lowering framerate cap to 30 fixes this. Lowering GPU clock may also fix this, but can lower performance.
Game has significant frame drops and input delay with default settings. Lowering framerate cap to 30, disabling VSync, and lowering Anti Aliasing improved performance.
Game crashes often when Volumetric Lighting is set to High... i think. It certainly does crash sometimes.
Had some issues with audio cutting out completely for a few minutes.
Game seems to randomly select graphics presets on launch; I always have to change it back to "medium" to get 60fps.
Leaving graphics preset higher than Medium can cause GPU resets
Some multiplayer modes are a bit more demanding than the singleplayer, 3v1 mode in particular. 720p + Medium settings should make it run fine.
Works fine, but you're probably playing this game docked, which is a bit of a hassle if you want native res.
SteamTenfoot=0 SteamDeck=0 %command%
<gamedir>/jbg.config.jet
"supportsFullScreen":"true",
Game tries to always run in 1280x720 resolution, even when running docked. Launch options and config file changes fix this.
After changing the config files as stated, go to ingame Settings and turn on "Full-screen mode" to display at screen resolution.
