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Hi folks,

I'm looking for a current, and good, Steam Deck guide for BG3 settings. I've read a number of people saying they have great performance and quality and they applied settings from a guide, but I've failed to find such a guide. I did find some old settings from pre-launch, but no "guide" per-se.

The Diablo 4 guides were all over the place and easily found, but I am flummoxed why I can't find them for BG3.

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[–] BeardedWonder02 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think for the most part Medium is pretty good, but if you search on YouTube, I can find tons that are post launch, and they all work great.

[–] twistypencil 2 points 10 months ago

Oh I tend to avoid youtube tutorials because they are too long, include ads, and a lot of inane banter. Listening at 2x speed is the only way and then its still annoying, but thanks, i'll go there!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I am using the “auto” settings (which ends up being medium), with models and textures bumped up to high. I also turned off the AMD FSR (makes it look blurry, to me) and am using the FidelityFX sharpening set to max. Looks pretty good and seems to perform well (I may just have low standards though).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How far into the game are you? Performance goes down very much in Act 2 and 3.

My settings, running the GOG version on Vulkan through Lutris:

  • 1024x640
  • Framerate capped to 30 fps
  • in-game FSR off
  • Models: Medium
  • Shadows: Low
  • Clouds: Low
  • Textures: Medium, Filtering Anisotropic x2
  • Instance Distance: Low
  • Fog: Low
  • Detail Distance: Low
  • Animation: Low
  • Anti-Aliasing: TAA
  • Ambient Occlusion: On
  • Depth of Field: Gaussian, Quarter Denoise
  • God Rays: On
  • Bloom: Off
  • Subsurface Scattering: Off
  • Slow HDD Mode: Off
  • Dynamic Crowds: Off
  • Audio - > Occlusion Quality: Low

I get 20 to 30 fps, depending on the scene. Mostly 30.

[–] twistypencil 1 points 10 months ago

I'm still in act 1. I installed via steam, so not sure how many of your lutris settings apply

[–] twistypencil 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My FidelityFX option is off and greyed out, how do you get it on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Once you set AMD FSR to “Off”, it will become available.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  • Everything on “medium”
  • SMAA instead of TAA to avoid blur
  • FSR set to Quality to avoid blur
  • cap FPS to 40
  • vanilla stable SteamOS with no tinkering

Works really well so far in act 1. With the above settings GPU seems to be the bottleneck. But, as the others pointed out, later acts are more demanding.

[–] twistypencil 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'll try this. Someone else in the thread said they turn off FSR and have models and textures set to high and have the FidelityFX sharpening on. Sounds almost very different from your settings!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The way I understand it, disabling FSR is supposed to make performance worse, or at least GPU more busy. That and increasing some settings from medium to high has the potential to slow things down to unplayable level. But maybe if you decrease the FPS to 30 it’ll be okay, dunno.

For me changing the FSR mode from the default was more of a way to get rid of the blur.

Eagerly waiting for FSR2 which I’ve heard is going to be implemented in one of the patches.

[–] twistypencil 2 points 10 months ago

I'm trying to make it so my characters don't look like a kerned mess. The environment looks fine, no blur or blocky, just my characters. Considering I'm always looking at them, I want them to look good