Does Dragon S Dogma 2 Work On Steam Deck Best Settings

How to play Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam Deck

Many player reviews criticize Dragon’s Dogma 2 for lack of optimization, and that applies to Steam Deck, too. The game is nearly unplayable, with many frame rate issues. Moreover, you need an experimental Proton mode activated to even run the game. Hopefully, some future patch will solve the issue, or we can trust a mod community to iron it out.

How to activate Proton Experimental Mode on Steam Deck

If you want to play Dragon’s Dogma 2 despite the optimization settings (or a lack thereof), you have to activate the Proton Experimental mode. Be aware that even with this mode activated, you won’t get over 10 FPS. To activate the Proton Experimental, do the following:

Go to your game library, hover over Dragon’s Dogma 2, and press the Menu button (the hamburger one). Go to Properties, then Compatibility, and find the box that says, “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool.” Check that box, and select Photon Experimental from the drop-down menu. Pres B several times until you go back to the Library.

Best Settings for Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam Deck

The best settings for Dragons Dogma 2 on Steam Deck favor performance over quality. Lowering your graphics setting will make the game a bit more than a PowerPoint presentation, though. The game will still run at less than 10 FPS. If you’re still eager to play Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam Deck, these are the settings that will pull out the maximum frames:

Graphics Quality: Custom Display Mode: Full Screen Screen Resolution: 1280 x 720 Refresh Rate: 60.00Hz Frame Rate: Max 30 FPS Vertical Synchronization: Off Dynamic Resolution: Off FidelityFX Super Resolution 3: Off DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION: (N/A) DLSS NVIDIA REFLEX LOW LATENCY: (N/A) Upscale Sharpness: (N/A) Rendering Mode: Progressive Image Quality: 50% (halfway on the slider) Ray Tracing: (N/A) Ambient Occlusion: Off Anti-aliasing: Off Screen Space Reflections: Off Mesh Quality: Min Texture Filtering: Low (Bilinear) Texture Quality: Low (0 GB) Grass/Tree Quality: Low Resource-Intense Effects Quality: Low Shadow Quality: Low Shadow Cache: On Contact Shadows: Off Motion Blur: Off Bloom: Off Depth of Field: Off Lens Flare: Off Lens Distortion: Off Subsurface Scattering: Off Motion Quality: Low

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