I overclocked my steam deck, and now it runs at a 90% locked 30 fps in new Atlantis.
So, I’d say within the next update and maybe Proton update, we can see it improve heavily.
have you tried using the texture performance mod to decrease texture resolution and see if you can get a stable 30?
on a scale of 1-10, how easy is it to get a overclock going and how far did you bring it?
love your kill la kill profile picture btw
CPU and GPU are easy with keyboard and a USB hub
Do not touch the RAM if you are not willing to remove the battery, but the CPU and GPU are fairly easy and if you ok with less battery life, go for it.
Just pay attention to the temps and know where to set your system.
You can also try undervolting it, which is available right in the stock BIOS now.
I would highly recommend using curve optimizer. You apply it from the OS and the setup I’m using doesn’t default to applying on boot until you want it to. So you test it as a temp setting for a while and if it’s stable you can tell it to apply every time. No real way to brick your device and for AMD cpus curve optimizer is one of the best “free” performance/battery tweaks.
would that work on a deck with the 119 BIOS?
Is your deck oled ? and are you using custom fast ssd like 2tb wd sn770m ?
The game is just unoptimized as hell
Barely looks any better than Fallout 4 and Skyrim but runs significantly worse
Likely because it’s a mess of procedural generation, it’s working harder than it needs to because there are almost no hand crafted assets.
Have you played valhiem? That is procudural and the game is less then 2gb
That is not a commensurate comparison.
It’s also not a fun game. It’s a busy work simulator. I’m sitting there playing the game and am just doing stuff.
You mean you don’t like finding ways around hours of senseless grinding just to make the game a little bit more than barley tolerable?
I would much rather play Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3, or New Vegas.
I’m glad someone finally said it on this sub. Was getting tired of all the “it’s amazing on the deck. Best version” shitty posts. I love my deck but Starfield is straight ass on it.
Edit: looked at a few posts on here and the circle jerk is still happening. Either these people are blind or brand new to gaming.
to be fair starfield sucks no matter what device you play it on
You do have a great point. I bought the ultimate version or whatever and I was out after a couple of hours. 😩
I Guess is that a lot of people come from consoles where 20-30 fps is fine to them because they are used to it
What are you on about ? The sub trashed Starfield on deck since it launched. You’re blind my guy.
Lol not even close, this sub was filled with astroturfing on release. Took a week, just like most other platforms, for everyone to admit the game was ass, let alone admitting it ran bad
Astroturfing? That’s a new one.
This sub gets plagued by it. Jsaux employees have been caught doing it multiple times a year ago
I think it looks much better than Skyrim or FO4 (to a lesser extent) - or at least, much more advanced in tech. There’s better shaders and lighting (interiors can look really nice), much more complex models, geometry and materials overall. Optimization is another matter of course.
Cyberpunk imo blows starfield out of the water visually and it runs perfectly fine at a smooth 40fps on my deck
And to think before it launched and soon after it came out I got downvoted to hell for saying graphically it doesn’t look very good.
Starfield’s graphical quality is a weird mix of good and bad.
On one hand, the planet environments and skyboxes are pretty damn good looking.
On the other hand, the people - especially the animations - still look like animatronics. Granted they’re more detailed than previous games, but they still have that vaguely robotic, uncanny valley feel to them.
I can’t say the NASApunk theme is doing them any favors, either. It’s just…uninteresting. Pedestrian.
Also, as an aside: graphics are the least of Starfield’s problems. I’d be perfectly happy to accept subpar graphics if the rest of the game was stellar. Sadly, it is not.
The second you talk to an NPC is the second you notice it’s a Bethesda Game because it looks like it looked for the past 15+ years and better textures can’t hide those animations.
Can’t argue with that one.
Personally my fave is how everyone I talk to looks over their shoulder with their back to me instead of turning to face me 😂
Honestly I couldn’t get very far in the game after realizing that…to be fair there’s so many other better games out right now…
Also those New Atlantis trees. Like what the actual fuck.
I like the NASApunk theme, makes me feel like I’m in an Alien movie.
This. I returned Starfield after spending half an hour in the character creator where the graphics looked significantly improved, Unreal Engine 5 level, and then got into the game and saw that my character looked straight out of Fallout 3 and cursed Todd Howard for making me waste half an hour of my life.
Graphics are fine it’s the complete lack of style or interesting art direction.
Honestly modded morrowind looks better at least there is interesting things to look at
Morrowind was peak Bethesda. They never made such an interesting world again.
OpenMW ftw bbe
Runs great modded to all hell on Steam Deck
Video game equivalent of flat soda, both aesthetically and narratively
I partially disagree. I think the game has horrendous faces and facial animations and the majority of the planets are barren wastelands, but there’s definitely beauty and style to be found. I very much like the “NASA-punk” aesthetics they chose.
Bethesda does a lot of copy paste on their dialogue too. Have you heard they’re reforming the dawnguard? Vampire hunters or something
Starfield definitely had “a style” to it. Whether it was good or interesting is debatable but it definitely had a style to it that permeated the whole game. A shame they covered it up with god-awful, ugly ass insta filters. It looks like someone pissed on my screen so I’ve been referring to it as the “piss filter”. The game had the potential to look SO much better, and then they did… that… to it.
BUT SANDWICH PHYSICS!!!
With a Performance Mod from Nexus?
Yes
Starfield is kind of bad. Terrible story, constant loading screens, barren worlds, the list goes on. Not really worth going to the hassle of getting it working on Steam Deck in my opinion.
Yeah, I played about 150 hours on deck. I gave up waiting for news on optimization because the game isn’t great. It falls into the “forgettable” category.
To add to this, I played Starfield on my desktop at 4K60fps mostly stable framerates aside a couple stutters on new atlantis and aquila city.
Mostly the game is average (6/10 imo) and doesn’t to anything better than other bethesda games from the last 10 years or so, but with the caveat that there’s barely any mods that do much yet (creator kit for starfield is not out yet), so you won’t see much aside some UI, texture and clothes changes, and don’t get me wrong, there’s a bunch of UI issues that are terrible on the base game, but overall the game experience doesn’t change.
Honestly the only thing I felt refreshing from starfield compared to other bethesda games are ship related activities, but the main problem with that is that it’s super limited in scope, which is unsurprising considering it’s the first time they’ve done ships, but aside that, quests, story, NPCs, etc, are pretty much just a shuffle from their other games, so if you want another new bethesda game that is similar to old ones, starfield will be ok, if you want a next gen game from bethesda, this aint it.
Once creator kit for it is available (looks like somewhen 2024) and modders begin pumping out shit this will probably change a lot and the game will become way more popular, but I wouldn’t spend much effort tweaking my steamdeck for it, there’s a lot of better games out there honestly.
Go to the starfield subreddit, it’s very odd….
Posts range from, “This game is the second coming of Christ” then proceeds to show a generic barren world with a moon as the screen shot as proof. Then you get the, “This game is fantastic! But it’s actually fucking shit based off the never ending issues BUT because it’s Bethesda it’s OK!” Posts.
Bar the Steam Deck part that what everyone said about Fallout 4, even I did at release! But now I find myself playing it again and again.
My concern with Starfield though is that Fallout is made playable largely due to its fantastic world space which has so much to discover but perhaps Starfield lacks this.
I’m definitely not rushing to buy it. Will probably wait for it to be 25€ and have a few overhauls available.
I’m enjoying playing it on game pass and streaming it to the deck, but I wouldn’t buy it. Doubt I’ll even buy another month of game pass to finish the game if it cuts me off early.
I didn’t like Fallout 4 on release and still think it’s the worst 3D Fallout (if we exclude 76 which I only played for a couple of hours). BUT, after a bit I started really enjoying it for what it was even if there’s still things I don’t like.
Starfield on the other hand… Oh boy. I played nearly a hundred hours up until I was on NG+2 just to see if I didn’t get it, expecting it to eventually become good.
It never did. Don’t get me wrong, I had my fair share of fun moments while playing, the combat for exemple I dinf pretty neat, like a better version of F4. The space ships are also pretty cool even though they ultimately don’t really serve a purpose. Some quests were also god.But man, is the game bland and devoid of charm. It’s not optimized, the story is boring, the facial animations are still outdated and uncanny, there’s ZERO reason to explore which is what I’ve always enjoyed in Bethesda games, it’s not a pretty game except for some interior environments (That pretty much all look like a better version of the Institute from F4).
A lot of people have used the phrase “As vast as an ocean, as deep as a puddle” over the years and I feel like it fits Starfield the most. I had the misfortune of buying the premium edition so I’ll probably play through the DLC and uninstall the game again. Until then, I have no desire to ever play this game again.<
All of this is just my opinion btw, I don’t hate people for enjoying the game, it’s jsut not a good Bethesda game to me, or a good game period.
Starfield, or other Bethesda type Games, are really “YMMV”.
Colleague of mine still plays it, while i dropped it after some 50’ish hours and having played the crimson raiders arc. At first i had a lot of fun exploring planets for that tasty EXP and getting a Build going.
Now i can Streamroll pretty much everything (Solo build, so no companions) and am fairly high level. Too high level (47 i think?) that Side-Quests with their 100 EXP Reward simply aren’t worth doing when i can get that per enemy on the level 70+ worlds easily without much of a fight.
(Been playing on PC though, for me it ain’t worth it to force myself to play it on Deck but i would’ve if i didn’t have any other means).
The other thing that eventually sets in: You keep repeating the same-ish loop of Exploration which can get old really fast if there’s long streches without any combat or worthwhile lore advancement. Once you begin to see repeats of certain locations and figure out that permanent upgrade magazines usually only spawn in unique locations (which you can see from orbit view after scanning)…
It’s just not worth it anymore at some point.
It’s because people criticized Fallout 4 as an RPG. Now people are playing it as a looter shooter, ignoring the main story, and wondering why people hated it.
As an RPG it’s terrible. As a looter shooter it’s enjoyable. Those who approached it as the second enjoyed it more and called those that tried it out as an RPG “stupid”.
Plus the story isn’t good. The lead writer said he didn’t put effort into the story because “we can write the best story and they’ll make paper airplanes out of it.” While I can understand not making it a priority, not giving much thought into it because some people won’t pay attention is a shot in the face to those that would.
I’m about 156 hours played exclusively on the deck. I didn’t change any settings on the deck or game and don’t notice too much stuttering. Big space battles seem to be the roughest. But those aren’t even that bad. I don’t run an fps counter, so I can’t say where the dips are for sure. The only game breaking issues I’ve had were typical Bethesda “features”.
I beat the game exclusively on the Deck and I didn’t have any problems.
Really? Because my game, at all low settings, runs like shit for the most part on my deck…
Yeah mine was a smooth experience with no tinkering
What do you consider smooth? I lowered the settings as far as they could go and I still get low 20 fps in cities.
What settings? Just all low?
Yeah, I’m about 4 starts in and still running pretty good. Had a bullshit bug where Barrett wouldn’t give me his power quest, but got that in NG+. Not a SD issue though.
Me too. I don’t know what all the noise is about. I don’t think I had a single crash, there were a few times when there was texture tearing but only for a minute. Totally playable out of the box imho
Now the question is do you really want to play it
It’s on game pass which works well on the deck after the initial install
Very true and gets him an actual locked 30 fps experience.
“90% locked 30fps”
The phrase “locked 30fps” is losing all fucking meaning lmao
My door is about 90% locked.
Which means it’s not locked at all.
My door is about 90% locked.
Which means it’s not locked at all.
(Turns out Reddit posted this comment 3 times for me!)
That means your door must’ve been locked 270%
Reddit app is 90% completely issue-free
your post has been 300% posted :D
My door is about 90% locked.
Which means it’s not locked at all.
Is your door locked?
His door is about 90% locked.
Which means it’s not locked at all.
But if it’s 90% locked 3 times over, does that mean it’s been locked at least once?
i don’t understand. 90% locked could also mean that 10% of the TIME it’s not locked (when he’s home maybe?). is it NOT locked because he deribilately didn’t lock it or because the lock wouldn’t withstand any manipulation? we need further clarification
Starfield is kind of bad. Terrible story, constant loading screens, barren worlds, the list goes on. Not really worth going to the hassle of getting it working on Steam Deck in my opinion.
A space exploration game with no space exploration.
Great game. We’re in 2010 right?
There is a way to make them not as barren.
If it wasn’t for the loading screens I think it would be a great game. I may play through. I really liked it, but I wouldn’t play again anytime soon because of those damn loading screens. Felt like a ps1 game.
Yeah, the loading screens are insane. Just going to a quest location requires 3-4 loading screens. That wouldn’t be so bad if the quests were meaty, but so far it’s been a bunch of “go here, pick up this artifact, go here and kill a bunch of spacers in this generic base, go back to lodge”, etc.
Loading screens, terrible exploration, the absurdly demanding requirements for a game that looks and plays like a last gen title, the game mechanic decisions that are stupid and just serve as padding like the skill tree where you need to put points into carrying capacity and mobility just to solve the early game problems of carrying capacity and mobility. Hogwarts legacy suffers from the same issue but at least it is nice to look at. That game is a solid 6/10 imho.
I’m guessing they meant the locked the screen refresh at 30hz and that they’re getting 27fps. But yeah, 90% of locked 30fps is not what they think it means.
im 90% full black.
90% of the time, it works every time.
27 fps locked
For some reason I thought he meant 90% res scale while locked at 30 fps ?
Need that sweet sweet 90hz from oled deck
63% of the time it is locked everytime.
Its made with real panther!
To be fair Xbox console version is essentially the same … locked but not very locked 🙃
i’m playing it through the xcloud on deck and it plays brilliantly so far.
That says more about the quality of the streaming service than it does about the Deck.
Thanks! That’s another way I won’t be playing Starfield
Already at 20% off. I can wait for the big drops as the Diablo 4 cycle continues and Starfield gets closer to what it’s actually worth.
In the meantime, they can fix as much as they are able without admitting to themselves the parts they broke in the design phase.
Beautiful! Soon I’ll be able to be completely bored in space at acceptable frame rates!
I’ve installed Steam Deck Essentials mod (basically lower-resolution textures) and it runs really nicely on medium.