Grounded Best Steam Deck Settings

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Grounded by Obsidian Entertainment is a captivating survival game where players shrink to insect size, exploring a dangerous backyard, battling small creatures, and crafting tools to survive.

The Steam Deck is the perfect match for Grounded with its portable design and robust hardware, making it an ideal platform to experience the game’s exploration and survival elements on the go.

Get ready to optimize your Grounded experience on the Steam Deck. Discover the best settings, controls, and tips to fully immerse yourself in the captivating world of miniaturized adventure, right at your fingertips.

Grounded Best Steam Deck Settings

Compatibility Settings
Proton Version Default
BIOS Settings
UMA Frame Buffer Size 4G

The 1.2 update has been a game-changer for “Grounded” on the Steam Deck, as it effectively addressed numerous issues and crashes that had been a source of frustration in previous versions. Thanks to this update, you can now dive into the game right from the get-go without the need for any further compatibility tweaking or adjustments. It’s an exciting development that ensures a smoother and more enjoyable Grounded experience on Valve’s handheld gaming device.

Also, consider going into the BIOS to increase the UMA Frame Buffer Size to 4G. This can help with open-world games that do a lot of texture streaming, like Grounded.

Recommended — Medium Settings (Native@40fps | ~2h15m)

Grounded doesn’t give you many options to tweak the performance in-game, so we’re limited with what we can do with visuals. The Deck struggles to maintain a stable 60 frames per second on all but the lowest settings, but we can get a stable 40 fps on the Medium preset. It looks great in motion, especially on the Deck’s 7-inch screen.

Display Settings
Window Mode Windowed Fullscreen
Resolution 1280×800
Quality Medium
Frame Rate Limit 60
Depth of Field Blur Low
AMD FSR Off
V-Sync Off
Gamma 35%*
Motion Blur 0%*
Chromatic Abberation Off*
*Set to personal preference

Steam Deck Performance Menu Settings
Refresh Rate 40
Framerate Limit 40
Allow Tearing On
Half Rate Shading Off
Thermal Power (TDP) Limit On
Watts 9
Manual GPU Clock Control Off
Scaling Filter Linear

Performance Settings (Native@60fps | ~2h15m)

Even on the Low preset, Grounded doesn’t quite hit 60 frames per second consistently. To get there, we’ll have to lower the resolution and activate AMD FSR. Thankfully, Grounded does have in-game FSR, so we won’t have to rely on the SteamOS implementation (remember to the Steam Deck’s FSR off when you have it on in a game!).

Honestly, it doesn’t look great. Still, if framerate matters more to you than graphics fidelity, this isn’t half bad.

Display Settings
Window Mode Windowed Fullscreen
Resolution 1280×800
Quality Low
Frame Rate Limit 60
Depth of Field Blur Low
AMD FSR Off
V-Sync Off
Gamma 35%*
Motion Blur 0%*
Chromatic Abberation Off*
*Set to personal preference
Steam Deck Performance Menu Settings
Refresh Rate 60
Framerate Limit 60
Allow Tearing On
Half Rate Shading Off
Thermal Power (TDP) Limit On
Watts 11
Manual GPU Clock Control Off
Scaling Filter Linear

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