Best Palworld graphics settings for Steam Deck

The Steam Deck can play Palworld with a few tweaks to its settings. The new survival action-adventure title isn't very demanding on hardware, which is good news for fans of Valve's handheld. The gaming device doesn't pack a lot of computing prowess and falters when running demanding releases. This isn't the case with Palworld since it's low poly and runs up to 60 FPS out of the box.

However, you need to resort to some compromises to maintain a high framerate on the device. Without sufficient fine-tuning, frame drops and stutters may destroy the experience.

Note: Some aspects of this article are subjective and solely reflect the opinions of the writer

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Best Palworld graphics settings for 30 FPS on Steam Deck

Palworld is currently one of the most played games on Steam (Image via Palworld)

30 FPS isn't hard to hit in Palworld. You can play the game at nearly the highest settings on the Deck while still hitting this framerate consistently. For the most part, 30 FPS will be more than enough in this title, given it's a survival action adventure without any fast-paced action.

We recommend the High settings in Palworld for the best experience. The game only supports Nvidia DLSS, and the Steam Deck loses out on the upscaling formula, which could have helped deliver some extra frames. Thus, cranking down the settings to High works best.

The detailed settings list for Palworld is as follows:

Graphics

• Presets: Custom
• Screen mode: Full screen
• Screen resolution: 1200 x 800
• Max FPS: No limit
• V Sync: Off
• Motion blur: Off
• Anti aliasing: TAA
• View distance: High
• Grass details: High
• Shadows: High
• Effects quality: Epic
• Texture quality: High

DLSS

• DLSS: N/A

Camera

• Field of view: 75
• Camera shake: On
• Ride camera shake: 1

Also, check out the best Palworld settings for RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti.

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Best Palworld graphics settings for 60 FPS on Steam Deck

The Steam Deck can play most of the latest games on the go (Image via Amazon)

60 FPS in Palworld isn't hard to hit. You need to sacrifice the visual settings a bit to get the extra smoothness. We recommend a mix of low and medium settings in the game for the best experience. Again, the lack of support for any upscaling formulas makes it a bit hard to hit high framerates since you must focus on cranking down the visuals.

The detailed graphics settings for the Deck are as follows:

Graphics

• Presets: Custom
• Screen mode: Full screen
• Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080
• Max FPS: No limit
• V Sync: Off
• Motion blur: Off
• Anti aliasing: TAA
• View distance: High
• Grass details: High
• Shadows: High
• Effects quality: Epic
• Texture quality: High

DLSS

• DLSS: Quality

Camera

• Field of view: 75
• Camera shake: On
• Ride camera shake: 1

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The Steam Deck isn't the fastest piece of hardware in the market. Most games on the device run at low framerates. Hopefully, the rumored Steam Deck 2 can fix it.

However, with the above tweaks applied, Palworld is quite smooth. This makes it one of the very few popular video games that is completely playable on the handheld.