Xykydar

Published

1 year ago

1 year ago

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-23

Battery Performance:Made Changes To Improve

Capped refresh rate to 40Hz. 13Watt TDP and 1100Mhz GPU clock lock.

The biggest issue I discovered is that this game cannot be played from and SD card. This game suffers from stutters and stuff. On the internal storage of the deck, it may drop to 35FPS in some places. But when installed on the SD card, those same places could drop to the single digits making it totally unplayable. Keep this game installed on the SSD and it is a great experience.

Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-23

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-23

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

5 months ago

The Last of Us Part I

Game plays really well on Steam Deck. Suspend and resume is a flawless console-like experience.

5 months ago

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-13

Battery Performance:

See SteamOS Configuration below

Audio:Crackling

Audio is crackling with latest versions of Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. Even the latest (at time of writing) GE-Proton9-20 has some major audio issues at various points in the game. Download and configure the game compatibility to use the older GE-Proton9-13 and the audio crackling is alomost entirly fixed (with the exception of a few very minor points in the game). I tried a few versions, this seemed to be the best for me.

SteamOS Configuration:

Game Compatibility:

GE-Proton9-13

Steam Deck Performance Settings:

Frame Limit - 30 FPS (60 Hz)
TDP Limit - Enabled
- 15 Watts
Manual GPU Clock - Enabled
- 1400 MHz

In-Game Configuration:

Display Setting:

Display Resolution - 1280/800
V-Sync - OFF (Locking the Frame Limit in Steam Deck Performance is more performant than V-Sync)
Framerate Cap - 40
Anti-Aliasing Mode - DEFAULT
Scaling Mode - DEFAULT
Render Scale - 100 (you can set this to 90 to reduce frame dips below 30FPS, but I preferred a prettier picture over a steady framerate)

Graphical Setting:

Draw Distance - LOW
Dynamic Object LOD - LOW
Character LOD - LOW
Environment LOD - LOW
Texture Filltering - ANISOTROPIC 1X
Texture Sampling Quality - LOW
Ambient Shadow Quality - QUARTER RESOLUTION
Directional Shadow Resolution - LOW
Directional Shadow Distance - LOW
Image Based Lighting - OFF
Dynamic Lights Quality - VERY LOW
Spotlight Shadow Resolution - LOW
Point Light Shadow Resolution - LOW
Bounced Lighting - OFF
Screen Space Shadow Quality - HIGH
Dynamic Screen Space Shadow - ON
Contact Shadow Quality - LOW
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion - OFF
Ambient Occlusion Denoise Quality - LOW
Screen Space Directional Occlusion - OFF
Screen Space Cone Tracing - OFF
SSR - ON
SSR Accuracy - 10
SSR Distance - 10
SSR Glossy Quality - 10
RT Reflections - OFF
RT Cloud Shadow Reflections - OFF
Screen Space Sub Surface Scattering - ON
Refraction Quality - HALF RESOLUTION
Depth of Field - CINEMATICS ONLY
Depth of Field Quality - ULTRA
Motion Blur - OFF
Bloom Resolution - HALF RESOLUTION
Effects Density - VERY LOW
Volumetric Effects Quality - LOW
Lens Flare - HALF RESOLUTION
Animation Quality - MEDIUM
Ambient Character Density - VERY LOW
AI Quality - LOW

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-13

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-13

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0 (git-17e5312102)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve36-1-neptune)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

5 months ago

The Last of Us Part I

5 months ago

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-16

Battery Performance:

(See SteamOS Configuration report below)

Audio:Crackling

Audio is crackling with latest versions of Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. Even the latest (at time of writing) GE-Proton9-20 has some major audio issues at various points in the game. Download and configure the game compatibility to use the older GE-Proton9-16 and the audio crackling is almost entirely fixed (with the exception of a few very minor points in the game). I tried a few versions, this is the latest version that worked for me. Versions 9-2 to 9-16 seemed fine, then 9-17 has borked audio again.

SteamOS Configuration:

Game Compatibility:

GE-Proton9-16

Steam Deck Performance Settings:

Frame Limit - 30 FPS (60 Hz)
TDP Limit - Enabled
- 15 Watts
Manual GPU Clock - Enabled
- 1400 MHz

In-Game Configuration:

Display Setting:

Display Resolution - 1280/800
V-Sync - OFF (Locking the Frame Limit in Steam Deck Performance is more performant than V-Sync)
Framerate Cap - 40
Anti-Aliasing Mode - DEFAULT
Scaling Mode - DEFAULT
Render Scale - 100 (you can set this to 90 to reduce frame dips below 30FPS, but I preferred a prettier picture over a steady framerate)