I could not provide several steam deck-specific insights in my look last week in the PC performance of the Dark Edge, as an crashed issue was inconsistent-I say I say, I was also stopping to reach the main menu. In the weekend, however, A Steps into objective-made steamos preview updatesMake the Braley Science-Fantasy Shooter play on the handheld. Just in time for its launch on the 15th, no less.
I admit that as I have determined about the impression between my plastic-collable fingers, the “playable” part was still dropping a minor bomb. How the dark era moves on the desktop, with it my main complaint is the compulsory ray trace effect, which is rarely compared to the very ugly doom, slowing down it correctly. Steam decks can run many things, but it usually reacts to the rays raised by curling and until they leave. Nevertheless, perhaps perhaps I had more confidence in the series that essentially brought the functional RT effect on the first location, as it could still walk around a playable 30fps. Even without resorting to your lowest settings.
Just to double-corridor, to achieve the dark era that works on the steam deck-at the time of writing, three days before the launch, you need to go to T-Meenous-System Settings and switch to the preview branch of the steamos, especially updating on the 3.7.6 version. Possibly the same crash fix will make its way for stable and beta branches, although what is worth it, the instability I have a close thing on the preview branch has been a couple of brief mid-game stores.

Otherwise, that’s fine? It launches fine with fix, 1280×800 is fine supported, default control all feel fine, reads the short text fine, cloud sev sink fine. Performance, on the desktop, is rapidly below the eternal days, but it is functional with the help of FSR apasms. On a low preset with apusculings on performance, Framrates differ in strict corridor bits up to 40fps below 30fps from a mankubus boumhair. And you can repeat that performance by pasting some settings on medium or high quality – more on it.
This battery burns through life, only 1H 20 meters from the full to the flat to the flat to a low-time RPS benchmark survives by drying my original LCD-screen model. Nevertheless, disappointing the overall slow-downs of the dark era can be on a large, fat, desktop, we may probably cut it some slacks on the deck. There is a need to save a steamos on one side, it is actually no business on such hardware, walk alone alone with most stable 30fps within access alone; The APU and shared RAM/Vram of the steam deck fly under the minimum system requirements that they are facing runways. Nevertheless, we are here. According to modern standards, it is also not that heavy weight on SSD of steam deck, with the final installed size of 69 GB (despite asking for 100 GB in requirements).
The fingers crossed that significant steamos preview updates make it in the main branch ASAP. Then, we can probably see dark ages that a steam deck verified badge and cross the valve-grooves of the eternal, and did it No Looks like an imminent possibility last week.

Doom Dark Edge Steam Deck Settings Guide
While most modern graphics cards can leave a bunch of dark era settings at its highest, ultra nightmare, without serious consequences, the steam deck’s pluckness does not greatly expand so far. He said, I have found that most of them do not really need to minimize, with good (or, as it is doom, more enthusiastic) medium and high options that are capable of being effectively effective to be effectively effective without any hobby.
Here is the complete list of what I am playing; Everything else can be left on the lapse.
- aspect ratio: 16:10
- Resolution: 1280×800
- Presented by calculation: But
- Resolution Scaling Mode: Close
- chromatic aberration: Close
- depth of field: But
- Upscaler: FSR
- FSR: Display
- FSR Frame Generation: Close
- Slow speed: Close
- Texture Pool Size: 2048
- shadow quality: Less
- Image Quality: Less
- Quality of Lights: Less
- Quality of particles: High
- Decal Quality: High
- water quality: medium
- Volumetrics quality: Less
- Texture Filting Quality: medium
- Geometric Quality: Less
- Cinematography: medium
- Directorate of obstruction: medium
It is a shame that there is no beam-tradingless ultra mega low settings to return to the 60fps mark, where Nu-Dum Games have lived comfortably before. But still, if the RT game is here to be implemented – and given this, the killer’s creed shadow, and Indiana jones and great circles, they are likely – then at least it is not given that the steam deck is lagging behind.
Just do not lure the FSR frame generation as a means of punching through that FPS roof. The dark era actually looks terrible with its algorithm-borne frames, which try to replicate real people, with the weight of the lag and lump sum broken anti-aliasing that lead the edges to the unexpected degree. The old -fashioned settings are sticking to the settings, regularly as the Insofer as FSR Apskling can be considered to be the old -fashioned.