Best Steam Deck settings for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

The best Steam Deck settings for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree can significantly enhance your gaming experience. While achieving high FPS can be challenging, you can still enjoy smooth visuals with the right configurations. The ARPG has returned with new challenges, a stunning environment, and eerie new enemy designs. Fortunately, like its previous iteration, you can enjoy the new expansion on Steam Deck.

In this article, we will explore the most recommended Steam Deck settings for the Elden Ring's new DLC.

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Best Steam Deck settings for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Valve's handheld can handle the new Elden Ring expansion (Image via YouTube/BigDeck)

You might get the base Elden Ring game to run at 40 FPS with lowered settings. But don't expect the same performance from the latest release. Reaching that frame rate with the expansion is nearly impossible, but it is completely worth it to play the expansion than not. The new world is simply amazing. It expands the storyline to a new place called Land of Shadow.

Below, you can check the best Steam Deck settings for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

• Ray tracing quality: Off
• Texture quality: Medium
• Antialiasing quality: High
• SSAO: Maximum
• Depth of field: High
• Motion blur: Off
• Shadow quality: High
• Lighting quality: Medium
• Effects quality: Medium
• Volumetric quality: High
• Reflection quality: Maximum
• Water surface quality: High
• Shader quality: High
• Global illumination quality: Medium
• Grass quality: Medium

With these configurations, you can get a respectable mid-30s FPS around most of the expansion’s open world.

That said, you won’t be hitting some high caps, so you can also lower your Deck’s refresh rate/FPS cap to around 45Hz - not from the in-game menu, but you have to do it via the slider in the SteamOS overlay’s Performance menu. This will reduce the display refresh rate to only what's necessary and will not cause any impact on the title. But you will get a few minutes of battery life.

This concludes our guide to the best Steam Deck settings for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. These settings will likely enhance your gaming experience, but you are always free to try and fine-tune configurations that suit you the best.

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