I’m using medium settings with a few (clouds, fog) low ones. FSR is off for now, I did test it briefly on Ultra Quality and did not really notice any blurrong )though it was a brief test) The FPS I’m getting is mostly above 30 but varies a lot inbetween 25-40 (40 is my refresh rate cap).
The controls are easy to get used to and cover all the functions well. Only 4 hours into the game but really enjoying it so far.
How’s everyone finding the performance to be like after the inital few hours?
I am running everything at lowest settings, except shadows which are the second lowest setting, and I am using TAA (or was it SMAA I don’t remember) and I am using a replacement DLL file that replaces the DLSS with AMD FSR 2.2.1, FSR is set to scale 1.5 (means the internal resolution is rendered at 75% of native resolution, but I added AntiAliasing before FSR)
I also lock the game to 30fps,
This should not run at max power draw from the system on a chip, I’d rather prefer 15-30% more battery life than fancier graphics.
I wish I could get medium textures, but at least while using FSR (tried with FSR1 also) there is not enough VRAM on the steamdeck to fit medium textures. I think when I tested medium textures, a few textures suddenly popped up to medium quality, but most just stayed at low.
I’ve only played through Act1, just treated it as a tutorial with an origin character, and now I am playing through Act1 again with a custom character. (I borrowed a friends GOG version, but now I bought the game on steam, and I copied over my GOG saves to my desktop but I chose not to put them back on the steam deck in the steam versions wine prefix)
I hope they improve the CPU usage issues in Act 3 before I get there. I suspect it’s mostly unfixable, maybe I will need to play the game at 20 or 25 fps in Act 3, I don’t know. I am in no hurry to beat the game, I am a family guy and I just get to play a bit here and a bit there, so the steam deck’s sleep function is a
godGabeN send. I would not be able to play a game like this at this point in my life if it were not for that, and it was the main reason I bought a steam deck.Im playing on PC and streaming to the deck. Loving it about 12 hours in. After initially playing on the PC with KB/M I thought it might be a bit shit with a controller, but inward wrong. Plays great, looks great, and is a fun game.
Ill probably load it onto the deck itself eventually, but for the time being streaming is suiting me just fine.
I haven’t bought it yet but I’ll probably stream it from my PC as well since it’s turn based and latency isn’t much of an issue. Didn’t even think of it until I read this comment.
Now I just need to beat the witcher 3 so I can start BG.
This is my biggest fear with BG - that I’ll be sucked in. I’m probably 90% through a playthrough of W3 (after several abandoned starts) and now I kind of don’t want to go do the final battle because I enjoy the game/setting/storytelling. I realy need to just finish it off as I’m somewhat OP for where I am (haven’t done more than dipped briefly into the expansions). I don’t want it to end, but I’m also avoiding starting other games as I’m worried I won’t come back and finish it. lol
