Steam Deck Essentials - FPS and QoL
www.nexusmods.com
This mod aims to improve performance, stability & consistency for the Steam Deck & other handheld/low powered PCs

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
    37·
    10 months ago

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

    • passepartout@feddit.de
      26·
      10 months 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.

      • Feliberto@programming.dev
        10·
        10 months ago

        I’m considering buying Starfirld after I finish Baldurs Gate 3, for the sole reason of Bethesda not implementing denuvo, if they had done it 10/10 would have pirated it.