Steam Deck Essentials (All Handhelds - PCs Supported)
www.nexusmods.com
This mod aims to improve performance, stability & consistency for the Steam Deck & other low powered handhelds/PCs. Offering up to 38% better performance compared to vanilla Low settings depen

Mod for Starfield that significantly improves performance, uses a combination of engine tweaks, compressed texture assets, and more.

Reportably gives pretty good 40fps results in non-demanding areas, and helps hit 30fps in demanding areas.

Unfortunately due to replacing many assets, the mod file size is huge (~7GB), but the author is preparing the download to be available through other file hosting services for people who don’t have Nexus mod premium for the faster download speed.

Edit: SteamDeckHQ made an article covering the mod and it’s improvements. Their findings were:

Compared to the stock version of the game, there have been some fantastic gains. With this version of the mod, I saw no drops below 30 FPS and some spots gaining about 5-8 FPS improvements overall. Without any TDP limits, it seems a stable 30 is finally possible with this mod, and I couldn’t be happier.

  • Plibbert@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    your shitting me. I can play starfeild on the deck? How?! Those system requirements were not small.

    • passepartout@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Compared to other recent releases they kind of were. Also the decks screen resolution and refresh rate is adequate for its performance.

      One reason may Bethesda deciding not to implement Denuvo. On the other hand, they sure will rely on the community fixing the rest of the mess lol, although the first gameplay videos make the game look surprisingly polished imo.

  • Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Alright, I was probably going to play it anyway even with dips down to the low 20s. But if we’re not even at the full release yet and the modding scene is already squeezing more out of that bottom 1%, I’m just biting the bullet and buying the damned game.

    For anyone in the same boat, Fanatical is selling the pre-release versions of the game for 17% off, packaged with a random “highly rated” Steam game. My freebie was Reventure, which is regularly $8.99 CAD.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Reventure is an absolute joy to play through, I highly recommend you try it out when you get a chance.

      • Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s very likely to become my most recent “doesn’t need all my attention” game, as I always need one of those on deck (if you’ll pardon the expression).